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Ramaphosa asking for trouble

Yesterday at 13:02 PM, via Daily Investor

President Cyril Ramaphosa may have landed himself in deep trouble for comments made regarding National Health Insurance.

READER LETTER | SA has faith, identity crisis

Yesterday at 13:01 PM, via SowetanLIVE

The state of SA is not a political crisis but a crisis of identity and faith. We have built a fantasy democracy on a foundation designed to appease Washington and London, while the structural remnants of apartheid remain untouched.

US issues 30-day sanctions waiver for purchase of Russian oil at sea

Yesterday at 12:41 PM, via Daily Maverick

The United States issued a 30-day waiver for countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea, in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said was a step to stabilize global energy markets roiled by the Iran war.

Poland’s Tusk vows to use EU defence loans despite president’s veto

Yesterday at 12:34 PM, via Daily Maverick

Poland will use a European Union programme to fund defence despite a presidential veto of the scheme, the prime minister said on Friday, as he condemned the head of state for what the government has labelled a betrayal of the national interest.

HEALTH INEQUITY: Red Cross Children’s Hospital doctor using donated ‘miracle’ cystic fibrosis drug to save lives

Yesterday at 12:31 PM, via Daily Maverick

Trikafta, a ‘miracle’ cystic fibrosis drug, has the potential to radically improve lung function and life expectancy for patients living with the condition. However, it remains inaccessible for patients in South Africa’s public health system, pushing doctors like paediatric pulmonologist Marco Zampoli at Red Cross Children’s Hospital to come up with creative ways to help those in need.

IFC’s new gas projects will destroy Africa

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via Mail & Guardian

This is a familiar pattern. International financial institutions socialise risk and privatise profit, while invoking development rhetoric to justify fossil fuel expansion in the Global South. Similar projects would be politically untenable in the Global North

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