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Banks face heavy lockdown costs – report
With clients being unable to repay loans, banks are reporting a massive surge in provisions for bad debt, according to a Business Insider report. The
Fake alcohol ban note leads to run on liquor stores
Queues formed outside liquor stores on Tuesday as rumours abounded of a new ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages. The rumours were apparently prompted
Facebook to challenge Thai government order
Facebook, the social media behemoth, has said that it will challenge in court a Thai government order telling it to block a page focusing on
Interprovincial travel permitted, more airports opened
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula last night lifted the ban on interprovincial travel, and opened four more airports – in Mthatha, Hoedspruit, Phalaborwa and Margate. Eighteen
Nasty indigenous names sought for costly, unwanted alien species
More than 100 species of harmful alien vegetation – the effects of which cost the economy more than R6 billion a year – are to
Suspected arson destroys Mozambican news offices
Documents, equipment and furniture at the Maputo offices of investigative publication Canal de Moçambique have been destroyed in a fire suspected as arson. Editor Matias
World’s ‘first’ re-infection – but experts caution against hasty conclusions
Scientists in Hong Kong have reportedly documented the first case of a healthy man in his 30s who became reinfected with coronavirus four and a
Mboweni ‘strongly reprimanded’ over Zambia tweets
Finance minister Tito Mboweni’s forthright weekend tweets criticising the removal of Zambian Central Bank governor Denny Kalyalya, and highlighting the importance of central bank independence,
Mali coup leaders want three-year transition overseen by soldiers
In the wake of last week’s coup in Mali, the military has proposed a three-year transitional period, to be overseen by a government ‘predominantly composed
Kallis inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
Jacques Kallis, the former South African cricketer has been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. The announcement was made by the ICC, cricket’s international