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South African clothing factories struggle after migrant workers flee
By Nellie Peyton and Thando Hlophe NEWCASTLE, South Africa, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Weeks after xenophobic protests drove thousands of migrant workers from South Africa, rows of sewing machines stood idle
Pretoria pushes for continental dialogue amid anti-migrant tensions
South Africa is calling for continent-wide talks on migration as it seeks to contain the fallout from anti-immigration protests that have forced thousands of...
Free State CoGTA cleans up its books as MEC Mokoena vows...
The Free State department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs' (Cogta) efficiency towards strengthening governance, tighter financial controls and a greater commitment to accountability...
Cyril Ramaphosa teases Ronald Lamola’s dark complexion at Sasol coal site
President Cyril Ramaphosa swapped the formality of official engagements for laughter and light-hearted banter on Thursday as he toured Sasol's sprawling Secunda Operations in...
SADC battles cash crunch as DRC conflict, Ebola test region’s resilience
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is facing mounting financial pressure at a time when conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), declining...
Outrage as TVET college hires 10 foreigners ahead of South Africans
The Gert Sibande TVET college in Mpumalanga has been exposed for employing a ten lecturers who are foreign nationals without the consideration of South...
Blow to Fikile Mbalula as ANC loses another high court case
The latest Eastern Cape High Court judgment delivered on Thursday has gone beyond being just a legal defeat to be a devastating political indictment...
Justice Madlanga dangles possibility of ‘killing IDAC altogether’
Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga has raised the startling possibility that the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) could be scrapped altogether, saying the commission's final recommendations...
Long weekend in jail for suspended EMPD deputy chief Mkhwanazi
Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi will remain in custody over the long weekend.
His bail application was postponed to August...
Mpumalanga gets rid of cleaning tenders, opts to insource workers
The Mpumalanga provincial government has approved plans to phase out reliance on outsourced cleaning contracts and instead employ cleaners directly, in a move it...
