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Covid-19 may have been accidentally released from Wuhan lab – Fox News
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 18, 2020
American news outlet Fox News has become the first major English language news outlet to publish claims that the virus which causes Covid-19 may have
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Slight easing of restrictions, but hunger mounts
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 17, 2020
South Africans begin the second phase of the lockdown today under slightly altered regulations, but growing economic pressures. Co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
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Zimbabwe announces plans to – again – dedollarise economy
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 17, 2020
Zimbabwe has announced that it plans to end the use of foreign currency in the country by the end of 2022. This comes barely a
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Government Zoom webinar ‘hacked’
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 17, 2020
A government seminar hosted by the minister in the presidency for women, children, and people with disabilities, Maite Nkoane-Mashabane, was seemingly sabotaged on Wednesday. The
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Rugby Championship to be held in one city
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 16, 2020
The Rugby Championship could be held over a six-week period in one city, this year. This was according to a report yesterday in News24. The
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Looting, protests illuminate mounting lockdown desperation
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 16, 2020
Socio-economic pressures are mounting in South Africa’s poorest communities as the restrictive lockdown measures intended to flatten the curve of Covid-19 infections leave households hungry
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Florida man accused of using Covid-19 to cover up murder of wife
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 16, 2020
A Florida man has been accused of murdering his estranged wife and then attempting to cover up her disappearance by claiming she was very ill
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Economic risks dominate headlines
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 15, 2020
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni indicated South Africa had approached the World Bank and other foreign lenders to discuss help in fighting the virus threat, and
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Covid-19: Africans in China face prejudice
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 15, 2020
While the world reels under the Covid-19 pandemic and the socially and economically disruptive measures taken to combat it, there has been much controversy around
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Lockdown measures buying time, but Covid-19 peak still to come: Health Department
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 15, 2020
Infection in South Africa from Covid-19 is likely to reach its high point in September; this is according to the Department of Health. In a