SA Fruit Canning Industry in trouble

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Last year Tiger Brands announced the closure of their Langeberg and Ashton factory, which in its peak canned more than 100 000 tonnes of fruit yearly. 

Christie enters Republican race

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Chris Christie, the Republican former governor of New Jersey, is officially in the running to be the next President of the United States. Christie filed

Australia to ban swastika, other Nazi symbols

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Australia is to ban the swastika and other symbols associated with the Nazis, such as the insignia of the notorious paramilitary group, the SS. The

Busa slams NHI

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The National Health Insurance Bill (Bill) will leave people worse off and deter globally mobile professionals from working in South Africa, Business Leadership SA (BLSA)

Poverty, not Ukraine, should be world’s priority – Pandor

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Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation Naledi Pandor criticised developed nations which fail to reform and transform global institutions.  On Friday, non-BRICS nations attended a

Rwandan genocide suspect deemed unfit to stand trial

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A man suspected of being a major financier of the Rwandan genocide has been deemed unfit to stand trial.  Felicien Kabuga, who is 88 years

SA must condemn ‘oppressive’ Zim legislation – FSU SA 

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South Africa should condemn ‘in the strongest terms’ the passage through the Zimbabwean parliament of the ‘Patriotic Act’, an oppressive law that criminalises citizens who

Energy “contained” in the Western Cape

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The Western Cape Energy Council has a new plan to assist municipalities reeling from load shedding, according to BusinessTech. Alan Winde, the premier of the

Stuck in a lift? Fire someone

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Human settlements Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi, has been found by the Labour Court to have unlawfully dismissed an employee because the Minister got stuck in an

SA Survey lays bare scale of jobs crisis 

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The full extent of South Africa’s failure to create jobs – the country’s most enduring problem since 1994 – is brought out in the 2023