CAF President Patrice Motsepe Announces Huge Increases for Club Competitions

Nigeria still seems fixated on the Global North as the wind blows in the opposite direction. The largest foreign investors in Nigeria – the UK, the Netherlands, France and the US – have not changed style since the 1950s. Their investments are mainly elitist, essentially in oil and gas, and ammunition, and portfolio investments, which mainly profit them, not Nigeria. Over time, not much has changed, and little has been done to invest in areas that improve the everyday lifeREAD MORE

China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, recently unveiled a raft of measures to boost economic growth. At the same time, China’s central bank, top securities regulators and financial regulator also announced a raft of monetary stimuli, property market supports and capital market strengthening measures to be implemented in the near future to boost the country’s high-quality economic development. These policy measures include a reserve requirement ratio reduction for banks and a mortgage rate reduction for existingREAD MORE

China has taught the world that democracy is not one-dimensional and it can take various forms. Election is a common and important feature of the Western democracy, but it is characterised by weak governance due to short-term planning and lack of people-centred political stances. However, not all Western democracies have the same type of governance system: different countries adopt different models. 

China’s Constitution states that all power of the state belongs to the people. The National People’s Congress (NPC) andREAD MORE

The proposal by the DA that the G20 Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) – which includes DA Ministers John Steenhuisen, Siviwe Gwarube, Solly Malatsi, and Dion George –  must become South Africa’s GNU foreign policy engine room has been met with harsh criticism from the presidency.

This is after Ryan Smith, the DA’s International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) expert, wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa regarding the proposal.

In his letter, Smith said his party advocates for a foreign policy that is bothREAD MORE

The ANC NWC (National Working Committee) meeting with the provincial executive committee of the ANC in KwaZulu, billed for this Saturday in Boksburg, has been postponed to Monday.

The “compulsory” meeting comes amid wide speculations that the NWC will inform the PEC chaired by Siboniso Duma that it would be disbanded and replaced with a provincial task team (PTT).

Sources said the task team is likely to be led by ANC heavyweight Mike Mabuyakhulu, assisted by Siphile Mdaka and includeREAD MORE

When Ramanugu Londolani volunteered as a borehole operator at the Vhembe District Municipality (VDM) in Limpopo in 2016, he hoped to rise within the council’s ranks and be employed permanently. The 37-year-old married father of two from Lwamondo Village in Thohoyandou says he bought equipment and water chemicals after the municipality promised him a permanent job.

He says Limpopo ANC Deputy Chairperson Florence Radzilani, then VDM mayor, told him and other volunteers their futures were secured as long asREAD MORE

The ANC’s national working committee (NWC) has summoned the party’s KwaZulu-Natal leadership to a “compulsory” meeting in Boksburg, Gauteng, fuelling growing speculations that the provincial executive committee (PEC) will be dissolved.

In the letter of summon signed by Fikile Mbalula, the ANC’s Secretary-General, all PEC members are expected to attend the meeting on Saturday, November 31, without fail.

However, the letter dated 26 November 2024 (Tuesday) does not state the agenda of the meeting.

“It is compulsory that all PECREAD MORE

The South African National Civics Organisation (SANCO) in KwaZulu-Natal has dismissed allegations that it recently cut ties with the ANC in the province because it wanted to join forces with the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party.

The provincial chairperson of the civic organisation, Lawrence Dube, says they “will never”’ join forces with the Jacob Zuma led splinter party.

SANCO is part of the ANC-led alliance alongside the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the South African Communist Party (SACP).

DubeREAD MORE

Since its inception, the BRICS cooperation mechanism has committed itself to promoting global economic multipolarity and advancing the process of economic globalization. In an era marked by faltering global economic recovery, uneven development, and widening development gaps, BRICS has become an even more crucial platform for fostering cooperation and shared growth among the nations of the Global South. With its principles of openness, inclusivity, and win-win collaboration, the BRICS spirit has become a banner for South-South cooperation.

The expansion ofREAD MORE

The police in KwaZulu-Natal are hunting for a foreign pastor who runs a church in Umbilo in Durban to answer why his house in Pinetown was being used to manufacture fake hair products.

The discovery was made on Tuesday while police were following a trail of a flow bin which was stolen at Westmead industrial site near Pinetown in the west of Durban. 

Intelligence information led the police to a house in Somerset Place in Pinetown where the stolen flowREAD MORE