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Banks face heavy lockdown costs – report

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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