SA’s GDP sheds another 1.5%, dashes hope for recovery

South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP), measured by production, has lost another 1.5% due to contraction in most sectors during the third quarter, while expenditure on GDP decreased by 1.6%.

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Lamola admits SA Constitution provides for land expropriation without compensation

Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola has admitted that section 25 of the Constitution – as it currently stands – does provide for the expropriation of land without compensation, in circumstances where a court can determine that such expropriation by the state for nil value is just and equitable.

The minister says the ANC’s 2017 Nasrec conference did not mandate the governing party to amend the country’s Constitution.

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Objecting to oil, gas exploration a ‘special type of colonialism’, says Mantashe

According to Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe, environmental groups ‘harassing’ Shell seem eager to not see the investment SA needs to improve the economy.

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SA publishers to challenge Google and Meta at Competition Commission

Major South African media owners have joined forces to deliver the opening gambit in their challenge to have Google and Meta (Facebook) compensate the media houses for their content that has been used on these platforms.

The industry association Publisher Support Services (formerly the PDMSA) announced the move in a release on December 2.

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Father of three murdered SA sisters back in country from New Zealand

Graham Dickason reportedly returned to South Africa last month. He might not be able to attend his wife’s court appearance on December 17.

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Anti-apartheid activist and former deputy minister Ebrahim Ebrahim dies

Struggle activist Ebrahim Ebrahim died in his home at the age of 84 after a lengthy illness.

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Unsafe instant noodles identified as ‘potential risk to the public’

The National Consumer Commission hopes an investigation will shed light on ‘the nature, causes, extent and degree of the risk to the public’, and will release the findings in due course.

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Pioneer Foods recalls certain Safari products in SA, Botswana and Namibia

Routine testing at the Safari production site in KwaZulu-Natal identified a batch of products that tested positive for low levels of Salmonella Typhimurium.

Consumers who have the products listed, with the specific batch or date coding, are urged to return these products to the retailer from which they were purchased to receive a full refund.

Read more on Alberton Record.