Tag Archives: Food Security

Load shedding to be reduced ahead of Christmas

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintCitizen Reporter, 18 December 2022 South Africans will be getting a slight reprieve from load shedding next week after Eskom announced that it will be reduced to stage 5 at 5am on Monday. Read More

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Army set to be deployed to several Eskom power stations

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintCitizen Reporter, 17 December 2022 President Cyril Ramaphosa has requested Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thandi Modise to deploy the army to several Eskom power stations. Read More

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Khoisan activists accuse Ramaphosa of evading their land issue

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintGraeme Raubenheimer, Eyewitness News, 17 December 2022 A pair of Khoisan activists staged a silent picket outside the African National Congress’s elective conference at Nasrec on Saturday. Read More

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Inflation rate dips, but food prices keep rising and SA tightens belts

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintIna Opperman, The Citizen, 14 December 2022 Although South Africa’s headline inflation rate cooled in November, dipping by 0.2 percentage points to 7.4% compared to last year, food price inflation accelerated for the seventh month in a row, while transport … Continue reading

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CEF predicts major fuel price cuts for January

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintDennis Droppa, Sowetan Live, 22 December 2022  While household budgets might be strained after the festive season spending spree, motorists can look forward to fuel price relief in the new year. Read More

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Slight downward trend for November consumer price inflation

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintCitizen Reporter, 14 December 2022 Stats SA on Wednesday morning revealed that the annual consumer price inflation (CPI) dipped slightly, from 7.6% in October to 7.4% in November. Read More

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