South Africa

The police are seen as useless in stopping farm murders and other crimes while politicians, seeking to grab land, ignore farm murders and some even encourage it. The governing ANC has endorsed a policy of expropriation of land without compensation. Parliament has begun the process to enact the law.

A collapse in household and business income led to a surge in job losses and business closures.
The post South African economic growth revised lower first appeared on The BRICS Post.

South Africa had one of the earliest and most severe national lockdowns in the world.
The post Ramaphosa unveils economic recovery plan first appeared on The BRICS Post.

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Researchers from all over the world come to South Africa to work with these collections at the Iziko Museum.
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Household consumption expenditure accounted for 61.7 per cent of the economy in the second quarter.
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South Africa seems to have passed the peak in the number of cases with the daily Covid-19.
The post South Africa moves to Level 1 lockdown first appeared on The BRICS Post.

The OECD said that a sound growth strategy could deliver quick wins in terms of job creation and potential growth.
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This really should be one of the biggest public health scandals of the decade, but instead it’s given little attention – mainly because of the high-profile nature of the people and organisations involved.
The United Nations has been forced to admit that a major international vaccine initiative is actually causing a deadly outbreak of the very disease it was supposed to wipe-out.

Via Summit News (https://summit.news/2020/08/11/new-zealand-goes-into-lockdown-after-just-four-new-cases-of-coronavirus/)…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered parts of the country to go into lockdown after just four new cases of coronavirus, the country’s first in 102 days.
“The infected people are from the same family in south Auckland,” reports ABC News.