South Africa’s unemployment rate decreased for the first time this year, dropping to 32.1 per cent in the third quarter, down from 33.5 per cent in the previous quarter, the country’s official statistics agency reported today. Africa’s largest and most industrialised economy has for years struggled with high unemployment, with women and youth ...
•Former President Jacob Zuma South Africa’s scandal-hit ex-President Jacob Zuma has made a surprise comeback by running in May’s elections against his former party, the ruling African National Congress (ANC). Zuma, the fourth president of democratic South Africa between 2009 and 2018, was forced from office under a slew of graft allegations, r...
•Jacob Zuma The electoral commission said today it had appealed to South Africa’s highest court to rule on whether ex-president Jacob Zuma can stand in a general election in May as political tensions heighten. The vote is expected to be the most competitive since the 1994 advent of democracy in South Africa, and Zuma’s presence […]...
•Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula South Africa’s former parliament speaker was arrested Thursday as part of a graft inquiry, the latest scandal to hit the governing ANC party ahead of elections in May. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who resigned her speaker post yesterday, was formally detained after handing herself in to police near Pretoria, prosecutors sa...
•Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula South Africa’s parliament speaker resigned yesterday, weeks after her home was raided in a graft probe likely to hurt the ruling African National Congress heading into May elections. In a resignation letter seen by AFP, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said she decided to step down with immediate effect to uphold the in...
•International Court of Justice (ICJ) The UN’s top court yesterday rejected South Africa’s request to put more legal pressure on Israel to halt a threatened offensive against the Gaza city of Rafah, saying it was “bound to comply with existing measures.” Pretoria has already filed a complaint against Israel in the International Court of Justic...
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