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South African budget passes first test

South African opposition party seeks to block parliament budget vote

South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters has written to the speaker of parliament seeking to block lawmakers from meeting on Wednesday to vote on the next stage of the budget process.

Bloomberg · 1d

Wrangling Over South Africa’s Budget Nears Crisis Level

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The Financial Times · 33m

South Africa’s ANC passes budget without coalition partner

Leaders in the DA told the Financial Times they feared the grand coalition — which was formed after the ANC lost its majority in May — was now “done and dusted”. The ANC “simply refused to compromise”,

The Citizen6d

Covid lockdown 5 years later: SA will be worse off if another pandemic hits – expert

Thursday March 27 marks exactly five years since President Cyril Ramaphosa placed the nation under a strict lockdown to ...

Moneyweb6d

Covid lockdown five years later

According to the National Income Dynamics Study (Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey), South Africa lost a decade’s worth of jobs ...

28d

Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19

Most of the world went into lockdowns in March 2020 response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but what has been the impact in those ...

East Coast Radio7d

Ramaphosa pays tribute to nurses for COVID-19 role

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reflected on the impact of COVID-19, calling it the worst global health emergency in modern ...

The Economist22d

South Africa’s government is looking fragile

Budget announcements are rarely memorable events in South Africa. But the statement on ... lot about the increasingly misnamed Government of National Unity (GNU). It was Mr Godongwana’s second ...

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