South Africa

South Africa’s economy to see worst performance in 90 years

12:15 am June 25, 2020

Johannesburg: South Africa’s economy is expected to decline by 7.2 per cent this year, its worst performance in 90 years, as the coronavirus pandemic takes a toll on sub-Saharan Africa’s most developed country. This was revealed in an emergency budget delivered by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday, a day after the country’s statistics body revealed its […]

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Africa’s 1st COVID-19 vaccine trial starting

11:46 pm June 23, 2020

Johannesburg: Researchers in South Africa say the first COVID-19 vaccine trial on the African continent is set to get underway on Wednesday. The University of the Witwatersrand says the vaccine developed by University of Oxford researchers is already being evaluated in a large trial in the UK and a similar trial is beginning in Brazil. The announcement came hours after South Africa reported that total […]

Spain opens border to tourists; Trump wants less testing

7:04 pm June 21, 2020

Barcelona: Spain reopened its borders to European tourists Sunday in a bid to kickstart its economy while Brazil and South Africa struggled with rising coronavirus infections. At a campaign rally, President Donald Trump said he told the US government to reduce testing for the virus, apparently to avoid unflattering statistics ahead of the US election in November. The head of the World […]

‘Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in Amsterdam vandalised’

2:51 pm June 18, 2020

Amsterdam: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been vandalised here in the capital of Netherlands by unknown miscreants with graffiti and spray painting, amid a wave of attacks on controversial figures following the protests around the world after the custodial killing of African-American George Floyd, according to media reports. The statue of Gandhi on the […]

I’m not short-tempered: Rabada

6:43 pm June 6, 2020

Kolkata: He might have landed in trouble for his on-field aggressive behaviour but South African speedster Kagiso Rabada says the perception that he is short-tempered is not true and it is just passion which drives him as a bowler. The 25-year-old was suspended for the series-deciding final Test against England earlier this year after collecting […]