CAPE TOWN - A long lockdown could lead to much sicker patients and dramatic increases in death rates for major illnesses such as cancer, and the number of people who die as a result of these delays could end up exceeding deaths due to Covid-19. Read more

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FoodForward SA, South Africa’s not-for-profit food redistribution organisation, said the escalating number of poor people will drastically increase the number of vulnerable people needing access to food. Read more

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JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Unemployment Insurance Fund has now disbursed R40 billion (US$2.3 billion) in temporary relief for workers impacted by a lockdown the government enforced to try and contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more

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This week the legal tobacco industry and the Government go head-to-head in the Cape Town High Court to determine the legality of the ban on cigarettes. Read more

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Cape Town – The Competition Tribunal has clamped down on Cambridge Food Jozini, a subsidiary of Massmart Holdings, for excessive pricing of 25kg of maize meal, from R129.99 to R159.99 in April. Read more

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The country's biggest beer maker, SAB, said yesterday that it had abandoned R5billion worth of capital investment projects in South Africa on the 12-week alcohol ban imposed by the government as part of its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: L... Read more

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Thirty-two percent of chief financial officers in sub-Saharan Africa companies anticipate laying Read more

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