South Africa Top Stories

    TENSIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL TRACKS: Biker shot dead as SA drug busts rev up global outlaw motorcycle gang fears
    A MAC’s Motorcycle Club member was murdered in a Pretoria shooting. As tensions flare within South Africa’s biking community, there are also growing concerns that outlaw biker gangs with connections to cartel drug factories have designs on setting up shop in the country.
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    CRICKET: Steve Smith fielding show sees Australia pile pressure on Proteas in first Test
    South Africa 284 all out (David Bedingham 49, Pat Cummins 3-54) trail Australia (Matt Renshaw 190, Wiaan Mulder 4-68,) by 139 runs on day three.
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    The PwC’s latest mining figures and global inequality reports should prompt a fundamental re-evaluation of mineral wealth distribution. High corporate profits can’t justify an extractive status quo that deepens wealth concentration while leaving mining-affected communities excluded and impoverished.
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    At least 72 Sudanese artisanal miners killed in strike, rights monitor says
    Oct 11 (Reuters) - At least 72 artisanal miners were killed in an airstrike in northern Sudan on Saturday, rights monitor Emergency Lawyers said on Sunday, in the second such incident in several months.
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    THE BIG READ: The names on a record sleeve tell us an important story
    A banner carried in Durban by South Africans told neighbouring governments to fetch their people. The names on a 1973 sleeve measure the debt South Africa owes the rest of the continent.
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    With El Niño bringing hotter and drier conditions to South Africa this summer, the country is facing an urgent reminder that more must be done to prepare for future climate risks.
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    RED SEA CHAOS: Fuel on the fire — there’s a Trumpian upside to the global oil crisis
    South Africa could not avoid the latest fuel price increase because the Houthis choked off Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea exit, but that starts another conversation altogether about who benefits.
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    WHERE TO INVEST: Warning signs on Afrimat’s losses were already visible, if you knew where to look
    A stronger rand, higher shipping costs and collapsing domestic iron ore volumes exposed the risks of Afrimat’s operating leverage, despite diversified revenue streams.
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    US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over refinery attacks, FT reports
    Oct 11 (Reuters) - The US is threatening to stop the procurement system that provides Ukraine with weapons in order to press Kyiv to halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing officials in Europe.
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    TALK IS CHEAP: Morero vows transparency, but Joburg withholds release of R4bn misconduct records
    Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero promised residents that his administration would not hide financial misconduct or the misuse of public money. Yet, within days, the City acknowledged that it had failed to respond within the legal deadline to a request for records concerning billions of rands in alleged financial wrongdoing.
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