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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A stronger rand, higher shipping costs and collapsing domestic iron ore volumes exposed the risks of Afrimat’s operating leverage, despite diversified revenue streams.
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.
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.