South Africa has launched a new G20 taskforce on global inequality, chaired by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. With the Johannesburg summit approaching, the panel aims to deliver bold policy proposals tackling wealth gaps, debt relief, and tax reform.
ArcelorMittal South Africa is expanding its retrenchments to over 4,000 workers, now including its flagship Vanderbijlpark plant. With losses mounting and iron ore suppliers under threat, unions warn of irreversible damage to the steel industry and local economies.
Glencore has begun formal retrenchment consultations in South Africa, threatening over 2,400 mining jobs across its ferrochrome and vanadium operations. With furnaces idled and communities under pressure, unions warn the crisis could devastate local economies unless urgent action is taken.
South African scientists inject rhino horns with harmless radioactive isotopes to deter trafficking, detectable by customs scanners and demonstrated safe for the animals.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has dismissed the country’s army chief, Paul Nang Majok, just seven months after appointing him—triggering fresh concerns over stability in the world’s youngest nation. The surprise removal, announced via presidential decree late Tuesday, came with no official explanation and no public statement from Majok himself. In his place, President Kiir…