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Limitations: A cargo ship loaded with containers leaves a port in Haikou in China’s southern Hainan province. The Covid-19 pandemic has had far-reaching financial and economic consequences, including disruptions to global value chains. (AFP/China OUT)
BASIC INCOME GRANT

China and Omicron are the wild cards for the global economy and financial markets

Lockdown restrictions will continue to disrupt global value chains and support rising inflation that will require aggressive rate hikes

  • Isaah Mhlanga
3 min read
ALCOHOL BAN

The social development department is discussing vaccinating ECD, Sassa workers in current phase

Minister Lindiwe Zulu made wide-ranging announcements on Friday, including how early childhood development centres should operate under level-four lockdown

  • Charma du Plessis
3 min read
COVID 19

Governments’ ‘muddle-through’ Covid-19 policies are misguided

Leaders across the world have bypassed the essential need to negotiate consent in democratic societies by imposing restrictions on their populations

  • Gerrit Olivier
  • Jay van Wyk
6 min read