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Zoolu Guitar Boy beats the odds with music
Informative
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July 16, 2025
By: ‘Moelo Motsiri MASERU Beneath the ruthless challenge of high youth unemployment, Amohelang Motsepe steps into the music industry for survival as a guitar player. His journey is one of unrelenting struggle, rising from a hustler to a growing...
Export ready? Here’s what to know about Sacu
Food For Mzansi
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July 15, 2025
For South African farmers eager to expand their horizons, the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) offers a practical gateway into export markets. Made up of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini, Sacu is not only the world’s...
Here's where Walmart prices are changing — and staying the same — as Trump's tariffs hit
CNBC
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July 17, 2025
A family shops in a Walmart Supercenter on May 15, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images SECAUCUS, N.J. — As customers walk the aisles of Walmart stores, there are some early signs that higher tariffs are changing pricing. The...
WTO's Okonjo-Iweala calls for African reciprocal tariffs exemption
African Business
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July 15, 2025
When the World Trade Organisation’s girector general, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, addressed the opening plenary session at the 4th Finance for Development Conference in Seville, she insisted that sustainable global development was still achievable even...
Kenyan officers join regional training at ILEA Gaborone, to combat human trafficking
Capital FM Kenya
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July 17, 2025
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 17 – Special Agents from United States Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are training law enforcement officers from Kenya this week to combat trafficking in persons at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in...
Bishop says U.S. aid cuts, not migrants, crippling South Africa’s health system
Catholic News Agency
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July 17, 2025
ACI Africa, Jul 17, 2025 / 14:28 pm Bishop Joseph Mary Kizito of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) said on July 15 that South Africa’s health sector has been brought to its knees not by foreign nationals, but by the recent...
Sushi or tinned fish? Here is what South Africans prefer
The Citizen (South Africa)
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July 14, 2025
The country's fish and seafood sector saw an increase in exports in 2024. South Africa’s fish and seafood sector has grown over the last year, with the sector showing significant export performance. A report by consumer and data science company...
If a cigarette box isn’t disgusting, it’s not doing its job
Mail & Guardian
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July 14, 2025
A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny black box. Photo: Canva In Bangladesh, cigarette packs show a photograph of an ulcer on a throat or someone on a...
LEC owes LEGCO M70 million
Lesotho Times
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July 11, 2025
Mohloai Mpesi THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) owes the Lesotho Electricity Generation Company (LEGCO) over M70 million, Parliament has heard. LEC Managing Director, Nathaniel Maphathe, revealed this before the Public Accounts Committee...
Kenyan DCI Officers Picked for Specialised Training by US Agents
Kenyans.co.ke
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July 17, 2025
This week, the United States is providing special training in how to combat human trafficking to 40 police officers from seven African countries, including five from Kenya. In a statement on Thursday, July 17, the US Embassy in Kenya confirmed...
National insurance supervisory authorities in Africa
Atlas Magazine
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Country Insurance supervisory authorities Year of establishment Algeria Ministry of Finance, Insurance Supervisory Commission (CSA) 1995 Angola Agência Angolana de Regulação e Supervisão de Seguros (ARSEG) (Angolan Agency of Regulation and...
Hlelo Giyose: Wake up Pretoria - Trump’s Lollapalooza is all about the non-tariff measures
BizNews
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The beauty (for lack of a better word) of this negotiating style is that it prepares the interlocutor for the outcome – the remedy of asylum to White South Africans right up-front. The mistake the government of South Africa made was to try to...
English Is Our First Language Too”: Liberians Deserve Recognition in Global Conversations
Front Page Africa
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July 17, 2025
Across Africa, English accents vary, but the Liberian accent is often recognized for its clarity, particularly among those with formal education. As linguist Ian Hancock observed, the educated variety of Liberian English exhibits distinct...
Insurance Giants Promote Road Safety
MENAFN
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July 7, 2025
(MENAFN- The Post) MASERU – AT least 150 drivers working in the civil service were on Tuesday awarded certificates after they completed an advanced defensive driving course in Maseru, thanks to two insurance companies, LNIG Hollard and Minet...
Trending: Dangerous Trump rejects heading our way
Daily News
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July 17, 2025
There is a fear that violent criminals – illegal immigrants in the US, which is now deporting them to eSwatini as they their home countries have refused to take them back – will cross over in Mzansi and join the ranks of criminals here at home:...
Biya at 92: Cameroon’s aging leader seeks eighth term amid dissent
Daily Trust
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President Paul Biya of Cameroon, aged 92, has officially declared his candidacy for the October 12 presidential election, aiming to extend his already 43-year tenure. In a post on X, Sunday, Biya stated, “Rest assured that my determination to...
Navigating my way in a male-dominated 1980s SABC newsroom
SABC News
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July 16, 2025
” You’ll never get anywhere in the SABC – you’re a woman, English-speaking and a feminist!” – one of female colleagues told me in the early 1980s. It certainly fired my determination to prove her wrong. A Passion for Radio and a curiosity about...
Butha-Buthe women weaving their way to success
Informative
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July 16, 2025
By: Mpho Shelile Butha-Buthe Meet ’Mamajoro Khoboko and ’Mapuleng Ntlhabo, two passionate artisans from Butha-Buthe who are reviving traditional Basotho crafts by making high-quality woven hats and bags. Using their hands, creativity, and cultural...
SA gets R520 million to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab – but there’s a snag
Mail & Guardian
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July 16, 2025
Research indicates the anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, protects women completely and works almost as well for men, transgender and nonbinary people. Photo: Marko Milivojevic/Pixnio South Africa has accepted an offer of just over $29 million (about R520...
Coca-Cola Africa Restructures Bottling with ECCBC Deal
Liberian Observer
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Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC) and Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) have reached an agreement for ECCBC to acquire Voltic (GH) Limited (Voltic) and West African Refreshments Limited (WARL). Voltic is a subsidiary of CCBA and WARL...