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The IMF’s $4bn loan for South Africa: the pros, cons and potential pitfalls

Staff Writer 1 week ago

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a R70 billion (US$4.3 billion) loan for South Africa to help the country manage the immediate consequences of the fallout from COVID-19. The Conversation Africa’s editor, Caroline Southey, asked Danny Bradlow to shed some light on what South Africans should expect. What conditions […]

Politics

How India and Israel use the pandemic to expand settler-colonial projects

Staff Writer 1 month ago

By CJ Werleman The international community’s focus on battling Covid-19 provides the perfect cover for criminal political adventurism. When France was distracted with a national election and a range of unresolved domestic issues in 1936, Nazi Germany seized it as an opportunity to violate the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarising […]

Stylish Winter Outfits For Women

Kgomotso Nailana 1 month ago

Winter is possibly everyone’s favourite season when it comes to fashion. We all get to layer up and keep warm. A lot of us buy a lot more clothing during this season than any other season. We all love to splurge on quality statement items such as boots, coats, handbags […]

Business

How South African stokvels manage their lending activities outside the courts

Daniel Chokoe 3 months ago

By Andrew Hutchison, University of Cape Town The South African stokvel sector is massive and controls vast financial resources. It holds an estimated R49.5 billion in member savings and has some 11.6 million participants. A stokvel is a type of informal credit union in which members agree to contribute a […]

How South Africa’s jazz musicians are making the digital leap

Staff Writer 3 months ago

By Stephanie Vos, Stellenbosch University The performing arts is one of the sectors hit hard by COVID-19, with tens of thousands of gigs cancelled across the world. While pop and electronic music has evolved with online platforms like YouTube as their natural habitat, jazz has remained more strongly tied to […]

Lifestyle

Food aid parcels in South Africa could do with a better nutritional balance

Staff Writer 4 months ago

By Hester Vermeulen, University of Pretoria; Carmen Muller, University of Pretoria, and Hettie Carina Schönfeldt, University of Pretoria Food insecurity is a reality for many South African households, with approximately 50% of households living under the poverty line and not being able to afford basic healthy eating. Low-income households typically […]

Coronavirus will hit African economies hard

Staff Writer 4 months ago

By Richard Li While the number of COVID-19 cases in China is on the decline, there has been a drastic increase globally and various governments are scrambling to put together contingency plans to contain the coronavirus spread within their respective territories. The immediate fallout of this viral outbreak is the […]

How sport can uplift countries out of crises

Staff Writer 4 months ago

Public parks have been gated shut, beaches emptied and stadia deserted as an unprecedented 2.5 billion people across the world are told to sit at home. Times are tough. The coronavirus pandemic is real and as it spreads its tentacles across the globe it is taking its toll on the […]

The big asks Africa needs to table with the IMF and World Bank: here’s the list

site admin 4 months ago

By Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria The corona virus and its economic consequences have caused economic tsunamis in every country in the world. The scale of the onslaught will dominate discussions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank spring meetings due to take place – for the first time ever […]

News

South African union takes govt to court over Covid-19 gear shortage

Staff Writer 4 months ago

The main health workers union of South Africa plans to challenge the government in court on Tuesday over shortages of protective gear for frontline staff where the country has 1,749 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 13 deaths. South Africa’s main health workers’ union planned to challenge the government in court on […]

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