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IEC to ask the courts to postpone local elections
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has adopted recommendations by former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke that this year’s local government elections be postponed from October this year to February next year, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. IEC…
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Pestilence, war and famine: relic of the Middle Ages?
Just a few short centuries ago, there were three main things the average citizen dreaded: pestilence, famine and war. These arrived with a fair amount of regularity and kept the global population in check. In 1800 there were roughly one-billion…
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Making the right moves with the Standard Bank Business Credit card
As a business owner you want a credit card that allows you to take advantage of opportunities or pay for day-to-day running costs, which is why Standard Bank has launched its new globally accepted Visa Business Credit Card. The Visa…
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The youth of Eswatini demand change – and they want it now
A political crisis has engulfed Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). The trigger for protests against the authoritarian monarchy of King Mswati III was the mysterious death of a university student, Thabani Nkomonye, allegedly at the hands of the police. This led to…
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The effects of the recent looting on South Africa’s young democracy
Who could forget that, a little more than 27 years ago, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng were the epicentre of death and destruction, during what history shall forever recall as South Africa’s “low-intensity civil war” of the mid-1980s to the early 1990s….
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