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Kgaugelo Masweneng is a journalist and deputy opinions editor at TimesLIVE.

The Abidjan Accord urges the world’s wealthiest nations to support Africa’s development by working towards a $120bn replenishment of the World Bank’s International IDA21.

Global leaders call for investment in Africa through Abidjan Accord

The Abidjan Accord urges the world’s wealthiest nations to support Africa’s development

  • Kgaugelo Masweneng
International affairs minister Ronald Lamola says the two most worrying conflicts in Africa which have led to devastating humanitarian crises are in the eastern DRC and Sudan.

'Not much attention paid to wars in Africa,' says Ronald Lamola

Minister of international relations Ronald Lamola said the two most worrying which have led to devastating humanitarian crises are in the eastern DRC and Sudan

  • Kgaugelo Masweneng
Despite comprising more than 51% of the population, the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development reported in 2017 that women owned only 13% of farms and agricultural land..

‘Give rural women access to land’: experts

Women in rural areas face challenges such as requiring the presence of a man to claim land or livestock.

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Baby Shower gift bags have lovingly been put together by Love Story for expectant moms at Dora Nginza Hospital

Eastern Cape hospitals 'compromise women in maternity wards'

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) says there are interdependent challenges in public hospitals in the Eastern Cape’s maternity wards that worsen overflowing, infections and maternal mortality.

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Large parts of Nelson Mandela Bay were without electricity on Wednesday night

Mpumalanga mayor 'admits' to using illegally connected electricity

A criminal case has been opened against the mayor of the Nkomazi local municipality in Mpumalanga, Phindile Magagula, regarding allegations of being a beneficiary of illegally connected electricity at her Aniva house.

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University of Johannesburg students on campus. File image.

UJ concerned after health department alert about STI surge in areas inhabited by students

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has expressed concern over the increase in STI infections in Gauteng due to risky sexual behaviour, while experts say the rise can be attributed to low condom usage and low use of sexual and…

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Designer Thula Sindi

'I was consulting and was paid, this is a malicious campaign': Designer Thula Sindi on SIU investigation

Renowned fashion designer Thula Sindi says the allegation by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) that he was involved in embezzling a poultry farm grant is slanderous as he provided a service and cannot “forensically audit sources of my…

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Terry Pheto and sister Dimakatso.

Actress Terry Pheto, designer Thula Sindi named in chicken farm lotteries embezzlement report

Actress Moitheri “Terry” Pheto, her sister Dimakatso and her fashion designer friend Thula Sindi are entangled in a controversy involving the alleged misappropriation of a R5m grant.

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The South African Medical Association has called for better working conditions for junior doctors after an intern died at work on Monday. Stock photo.

30 doctors found guilty of misconduct in a year

More than 30 doctors were punished in the 2022/2023 financial year for inappropriate or unethical conduct by the Health Professional Council of South Africa.

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Mike Ngube lost his wife and daughter in the fire last year.

Man woke after days in coma to hear his wife and child died in Usindiso fire

A witness on Tuesday told the Usindiso commission of inquiry that he was in a coma for days after he was blasted by fumes from an electricity box during the August 2023 fire.

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A paraffin stove in a passage inside the fire-ravaged Johannesburg CBD building where 77 people died in August last year. File photo.

Usindiso fire survivors at Lindela Repatriation Centre might stay for months before release

A witness held at the Lindela Repatriation Centre after the fire in the Usindiso building told the commission of inquiry headed by retired judge Sisi Khampepe when food became scarce at the Hofland recreational centre, people started to…

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The City of Joburg and the Joburg Property Company have been found liable for the Usindiso building fire in which 76 people died last August. File photo.

Usindiso fire victims relive trauma as suspect makes court appearance

The confession this week by a witness at the Usindiso commission of inquiry that he started the deadly fire that led to the deaths of 76 people in the Johannesburg CBD building in August last year has caused some survivors to relive the…

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Matriculant who died in December obtained five distinctions

A pupil from St Benedict’s college in Bedfordview, Ekurhuleni, who died before seeing his matric results, obtained five distinctions.

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Prof Peter Beale and advocate Barry Roux leave the Johannesburg high court last year. File photo.

Medical association concerned about 'criminalisation' of doctors

The South African Medical Association has raised concerns about the charging and prosecution of medical doctors as the case of paediatric surgeon Prof Peter Beale is set for trial next week.

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Discovery Building. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA/FILE PHOTO

CMS raps medical schemes for splurging on AGM functions

Medical aid schemes have been found to splurge on annual general meetings, with Sizwe Medical Fund the biggest culprit, according to a Council for Medical Schemes report released this week.

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