JOHANNESBURG - A court in South Africa on Friday ruled the corruption trial against former President Jacob Zuma will go ahead, despite his efforts to have the case dismissed. Zuma …
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South Africa president calls for tolerance towards migrants
CAPE TOWN, President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to be tolerant of migrants following recent xenophobic violence, as hundreds of refugees camped outside UN offices demanding to be removed from …
South African Minister: Ban Migrant Workers From Informal Jobs
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Minister of Small Business Development is pushing a radical solution to last month's clashes between locals and foreigners over jobs: Ban the foreigners.
At least, ban …
Secretary-General Presents First Annual Budget in Over 45 Years to Fifth Committee, Proposing $2.87 Billion for 2020 Focused on Strategic Priorities, Reforms
Delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today began discussing the proposed programme budget for 2020 totalling $2.87 billion, which represents no real-term growth from 2019 but reflects the …
Delegates Decry Gender-Based Violence, Call for Better Measures to Protect Rural, Migrant Women, as Third Committee Continues Debate on Achieving Equal Rights
Sustainable development cannot be achieved without gender equality and a meaningful enhancement in women's political participation, delegates told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today as it continued its …
Auction Results (October 8)
The 7-day BoBC yield went up to 1.41 percent from 1.39 percent for a paper maturing on October 16, 2019. The results of the auction held on October 8, 2019 …