PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader prophet Walter Magaya is considering taking his Aguma herbal supplement — which he claims can cure HIV, Aids and cancer — outside Zimbabwe in the wake of the backlash he received following his announcement last Sunday that he had found a cure for HIV, Aids and cancer.
Prospects of a quick fix to the impasse over a new minimum wage dimmed yesterday as the Federal Government headed to court to stop the planned strike by organised labour.
Over 1.1 million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty in just four months, a report by the World Poverty Clock, a Vienna-based World Data Lab, has said. The latest report according to The Cable, has brought the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty – or below $1.90 per day, to 88 million. In June 2018, the Brookings Institution named… Read more »
THE government launched the e-death notification system to curb death certificate forgery, and to track future deaths in the country. Prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila launched the project in Windhoek yesterday. The project, a collaboration between the health ministry, the Namibian Police, the Namibia Statistics Agency, Unicef and home affairs, seeks to expand the digital civil registration and identification system in… Read more »
An in-depth forensic investigation by Grant Thornton and SizweNtsalubaGobodo Advisory Services into the awarding of a SAPS/SITA contract to Keith Keating’s Forensic Data Analysts amounting to R61 million for the provision of forensic light sources, has uncovered massive potential fraud and/or collusion between at least 20 senior SAPS officials and FDA employees. No wonder SAPS wanted a closed SCOPA session… Read more »
The JOBS of more than 2,000 RioZim employees were left hanging in the balance Wednesday after gold producer suspended operations at three of its mines. The company blamed foreign currency shortages for the development and has since indicated it is considering legal action against the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ). RioZim accuses the central bank of not releasing the foreign… Read more »
The largest issue currently facing Sub-Saharan Africa is poverty. Africa as a continent and the Sub-Saharan region in particular are incredibly poor. Sudan is one of the wealthiest countries in the region, yet its GDP per capita is the 54th lowest in the world. This ongoing struggle against poverty is affecting the nearly 900 million inhabitants of the region, yet… Read more »
“The region’s economic recovery is in progress but at a slower pace than expected,” said Albert Zeufack, World Bank Chief Economist for Africa. “To accelerate and sustain an inclusive growth momentum, policy makers must continue to focus on investments that foster human capital, reduce resource misallocation and boost productivity. Policymakers in the region must equip themselves to manage new risks arising from changes… Read more »
Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced dramatic gains in internet use in recent years. With this rapid growth in connectivity have come a host of potential problems, including fake news, political targeting and manipulation and financial scams, among others. Yet according to a new Pew Research Center analysis, most sub-Saharan Africans feel positively about the role the internet plays in their country. Large majorities say the… Read more »
Africa faces many challenges. By 2020, the continent will be the world’s last frontier to ending extreme poverty. To generate stronger and sustained growth in resource-rich Africa will require more and better human and physical capital and stronger market and government institutions. Given the smaller size of some sub-Saharan African countries, policies to improve the endowment of capital need to be supplemented by… Read more »