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How agriculture shapes everyday life.
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How agriculture shapes everyday life.

The United States has waived a controversial $15,000 visa deposit for 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket holders, offering relief to travelling fans.

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This is a major concern in Nelson Mandela Bay, as the hub of automotive and component production, and also home to agro-processing for global markets and multinational manufacturers and exporters of pharmaceuticals, beverages, as well as the supporting networks of suppliers and logistics providers.

It’s 9am and a dozen patients are already waiting on the banks of the Senqu River at Whitehill in Qacha’s Nek, Lesotho, for the boat service to take them to Tebellong Hospital on the other side.
The Patriotic Alliance will be “a big factor” in the Northern Cape in the upcoming local government elections, says election analyst Wayne Sussman, after the party won a by-election against rivals the Democratic Alliance.
Springbok prop Asenathi Ntlabakanye has been slapped with an 18-month ban.

Global capital is not retreating from Africa, it is becoming more disciplined in how it is deployed. For South Africa, this presents both a challenge and an opportunity, and attracting sustained investment will depend not only on the strength of underlying opportunities but on how effectively capital can be structured, governed and deployed across borders. […]

The Dangote refinery in Nigeria offers a reminder that African ambition can materialise when the enabling environment and project size meet. AfCFTA’s promise is to replicate Dangote-like transformative industries across the continent across multiple sectors.

The system, environment and rules of branding are stacked against township entrepreneurs, writes Moshe Kola.

Buying illegal medication in some spaza shops in KuGompo City proved to be as easy as uttering two words: “Ndithenga iyeza (I would like to buy medicine)”.
Macron faces a political challenge as lawmakers vote on his central bank nominee.
Official voters’ rolls from Mozambique’s 2024 elections reveal fraudulent registrations, including Zanu-PF activists and Zimbabweans without voting rights.
Judge Nkosinathi Chili to rule on Jacob Zuma’s ‘Stop Stalingrad’ application.

Xpeng is negotiating with Volkswagen to share a factory in Europe for expansion
China’s President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump trade talks are making progress at the start of a two-day summit on Thursday but warned disagreement over Taiwan could send relations down a dangerous path.
A Panama-flagged crude oil tanker managed by Japanese refining group Eneos 5020.T has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, ship-tracking data from LSEG showed on Thursday, the second instance of such a Japan-linked oil ship making it through.
What is required, if the unqualified and immediately realisable right to basic education is to be safeguarded, is not simply better ad hoc responses to extreme weather events but a shift towards a basic education system that is intentionally designed to withstand them.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption court on Thursday ordered the arrest of Andriy Yermak, a close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and former head of his administration, on money-laundering charges.
Britain’s former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, a potential rival to leader Keir Starmer, said on Thursday she had been cleared of deliberate wrongdoing over her tax affairs, overcoming a hurdle to mounting any leadership bid.
The Philippine Senate will convene as an impeachment court on May 18 ahead of the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, its president said on Thursday, with tensions flaring as the country’s most powerful political clans face off.