Tag: South Africa
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#SONA2023: How does it compare with Ramaphosa’s last six addresses?
Green hydrogen, fixing unreliable coal power plants, and a state of disaster to roll out emergency energy procurement – the president’s plans for the year ahead.
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Q&A: The impact of the state of the nation address on municipalities
What role does the state of the nation play in the agendas of municipalities?
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Bloated squad sizes don’t benefit SA’s top football teams
The average DStv Premiership club will register 40 players every season, but close to 20% of these players never get to play in a match.
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Mostly children affected by measles as outbreak grows
Why has the NICD issued an outbreak warning over measles?
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Nine women killed per day in South Africa
This number is higher than the year before. SA has one of the worst rates of female homicides in the world, according to the UN.
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Q&A with two experts on mayoral changes, service delivery
A change in leadership affects service delivery, but in an ideal scenario, there would be a clear distinction between the political and bureaucratic spheres.
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Femicide in the police force: when officers kill their partners
Over three years, police watchdog IPID logged 48 cases where police officers allegedly killed their current or former intimate partners.
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Two-thirds of by-elections since November 2021 were because a councillor died
Seven months after the local government elections, there have been quite a few changes.
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How have football club sales affected South African-based footballers?
One in every three of the DStv Premiership’s players have been affected by clubs being sold since 2019/20.
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826 SA-based footballers have been involved in transfer market activity since 2019
But how do DStv Premiership clubs acquire their players?