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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes the judgement of the Western Cape High Court on the interdict application brought by President Ramaphosa to stop the Impeachment Committee of Parliament from conducting its work to establish whether Ramaphosa’s conduct in relation to illicit foreign currency found at his Phala Phala farm amounts to an impeachable offence. […]
Jacaranda FM today announced that popular radio personality Joe Mann will be leaving the station after seven memorable years on air. Since joining the station in 2019, Mann has become a familiar voice to listeners across the station’s footprint, bringing his unique energy and passion for sports to the airwaves. His time at Jacaranda FM has …
By Merilynn Steenkamp, General Manager, Southern Africa, Multi-Country Network, at Roche Diagnostics, South Africa Some diseases announce themselves early. Others creep up subtly. Hepatitis B and C can damage the liver before symptoms appear, leaving people unaware they are living with the disease until serious complications develop, meaning hepatitis is often invisible; that is, unless …
Friday, 24 July 2026: Eskom’s ongoing operational performance continues to deliver tangible benefits for customers, communities and the broader economy. The latest progress achieved through the Generation Recovery Plan was demonstrated on 20 July 2026, when Eskom recorded a daily Energy Availability Factor (EAF) of 80.24%, the highest daily performance achieved since 20 September 2017....
The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has finalised a loan of up to $15 million to the Biologicals and Vaccines Institute of South Africa Ltd (Biovac) (https://apo-opa.co/3RQJKp2) to support a new multi-vaccine manufacturing facility in Cape Town that will significantly expand Africa's domestic capacity to produce vaccines.
The financing forms part of an expansion programme that will raise Biovac's total annual manufacturing capacity up to 500 million doses. Once complete, Biovac is expected to become Africa's first end-to-end producer of oral cholera vaccine and South Africa's first locally produced inactivated polio vaccine, and the first on the continent to produce inactivated polio vaccine through technology-transfer partnerships with Sanofi, the International Vaccine Institute, Biological E Limited, EuBiologics, and Bharat Biotech. For more than two decades, Biovac has been South Africa's primary vaccine supplier,
Africa currently imports more than 99 percent of the vaccines it uses, even though the continent carries a disproportionate share of the world's vaccine-preventable disease burden. In response, the African Union aims to produce 60 percent of the continent's vaccines locally by 2040. (https://apo-opa.co/4c0qcoV) Beyond vaccines, the project is projected to create around 340 full-time jobs, with an estimated 43 percent of these roles going to women and 30 percent going to youths. Biovac, which already employs more than 300 staff — half of them women — will also expand training in vaccine manufacturing, quality control, and regulatory science in partnership with local universities and other regional training institutions.
“This investment in Biovac is about much more than expanding vaccine production capacity. It is about building Africa's health sovereignty, strengthening regional value chains, and creating industrial capabilities that will enable the continent to respond more effectively to future health emergencies,” said Solomon Quaynor, the Bank Group's Vice President for Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialisation. "By supporting Africa's first end-to-end oral cholera vaccine manufacturing facility and the continent's first local production of inactivated polio vaccine, we are helping transform Africa from a consumer of imported vaccines into a producer of critical health solutions.”
“We welcome the African Development Bank as a partner in this landmark project and are proud that an institution so central to Africa's development sees in Biovac the same opportunity we see, a chance to fundamentally shift the continent's relationship with its own health security,” said Biovac Chief Executive Officer Morena Makhoana. “The project will shift the narrative from majority-imported vaccines to majority-exported vaccines. This is part of changing that reality permanently. This is what Africa's health sovereignty looks like in practice, and we are honoured to be building it.”
The Bank Group's support for Biovac aligns with its broader commitment to developing Africa's pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing ecosystem, creating quality jobs, fostering innovation, and advancing African Union targets.
“This project allows one of Africa's most experienced manufacturers to scale up exactly where the need is greatest: vaccines that protect children from cholera, polio, pneumonia and meningitis," said Kennedy Mbekeani, the Bank Group's Director General for Southern Africa, and Country Manager for South Africa.
The expansion project is also designed to plug directly into the continent's emerging vaccine-financing architecture, including Gavi's African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA), (https://apo-opa.co/4c1QFT4) a $1.2 billion mechanism that rewards African manufacturers with milestone payments once they reach WHO prequalification, plus a per-dose top-up on vaccines supplied through UNICEF tenders.
Biovac's new facility is expected to be completed by 2028 and will initially produce vaccines for cholera (oral) and subsequently for polio (IPV), pneumonia (PCV), and meningitis (MenX).
The Bank joins a syndicate of development finance institutions backing the project. The syndicate is led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and supported by a long-term quasi-equity facility from the Human Development Accelerator (HDX) programme, a European Union-backed initiative implemented by the European Investment Bank in partnership with the Gates Foundation. The package is complemented by grant funding and support from other global health partners for technology transfers that will bring new vaccines into Biovac's portfolio.
Biovac is a South African biopharmaceutical company established in 2003 in partnership with the South African government to develop local vaccine manufacturing capability. Based in Cape Town, it currently manufactures and supplies much-needed routine paediatric vaccines and has delivered more than 450 million vaccine doses to countries across Southern Africa, including COVID-19 vaccines.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Development Bank Group (AfDB).
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Communication and External Relations Department
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Head: Corporate Brand
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About the African Development Bank Group:
The African Development Bank Group is Africa's premier development finance institution. It comprises three distinct entities: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Development Fund (ADF) and the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF). On the ground in 41 African countries with an external office in Japan, the Bank contributes to the economic development and the social progress of its 54 regional member states. For more information: www.AfDB.org
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The residential property market in Cape Town’s Northern Suburbs continues to show resilience, with Durbanville emerging as a focal point for homeowners looking to maximize asset value through strategic interior remodeling. As property prices in the Western Cape maintain an upward trajectory, a growing number of residents are opting for high-quality refurbishments rather than entering …
The winter chill has set in across South Africa, but rather than hiding indoors this season, travellers are increasingly looking for meaningful escapes that take advantage of this beautiful season. From holidays that focus on rest and relaxation to those that celebrate the great outdoors and family time, there are many ways to enjoy these …
President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his sadness at the passing of liberation struggle stalwart Shantavothie “Shanthie” Naidoo Tweedie at the age of 91.
President Ramaphosa offers his deep condolences to Mr Dominic Tweedie, the Naidoo family and friends and comrades of Shanthie Naidoo Tweedie who lived in exile in the United Kingdom from 1972 to 1991.
Born in Pretoria in 1935, Shanthie Naidoo became an activist while at school and became active in the then Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, the Federation of South African Women, the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the African National Congress, in whose service she and Dominic Tweedie worked at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania.
Shanthie Naidoo Tweedie faced various periods of detention, including solitary confinement, under the Terrorism Act as well as banning orders.
She was imprisoned for two months for refusing to give evidence against Winnie Mandela and 21 comrades who had been charged with furthering the aims of the African National Congress.
The apartheid state refused her exit permits to go into exile, until allowing her to leave the country following a campaign by supporters in South Africa and abroad, in which liberal Member of Parliament Helen Suzman had played a leading role.
President Ramaphosa said: “The passing of Shanthie Naidoo Tweedie causes us to revisit and pay tribute to the extraordinary contribution she made to our struggle for freedom.
“Shanthie Naidoo Tweedie was a hero who followed in the footsteps of her politically active family and sacrificially devoted her extended life to fighting for a free, non-racial South Africa.
“Her passing, on the eve of Women's Month, draws our attention to the struggles women faced under apartheid and which spurred courageous women to confront a system founded on race and gender discrimination.
“As we mourn Shanthie Naidoo Tweedie's passing, we also celebrate her legacy and that of the 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings 70 years ago as well as other women, who have made South Africa a better place for women and girls.
“We can only repay Shanthie Naidoo Tweedie by honouring her sacrifice and leadership, and continuing to make South Africa a nation that works for all, and especially women.
“May her soul rest in peace.”
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa.
MetroFibre honours Mandela Day 2026 with four community initiatives across Gauteng and the Eastern Cape School upgrades, fibre connectivity and a community soup kitchen underpin a year-round commitment to the communities MetroFibre serves MetroFibre marked Nelson Mandela Day 2026 with four community initiatives spanning Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, continuing its firm commitment to education, …
Statement by Stephen Moore MP – DA Spokesperson on Water and Sanitation: The plan released by President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday to address South Africa’s water supply crisis contains nothing new. This is very alarming, and after six months of promises, South Africans desperate for water supply security should remain concerned. The DA has been fighting …
The Hollywood Foundation Pumas Women will play at home for the first time this season in the Pick n Pay Women’s Super League 2, while the Griffons Women will host the SWD Eagirls, and AVBOB Griquas welcome the Valke Women in round four of the competition on Saturday. All three hosting teams claimed good wins …
Statement by Andrew Bateman MP – DA Deputy Spokesperson on Appropriations: The resignation of Public Investment Corporation (PIC) Board Chairperson David Masondo is a significant development, but it is not enough to restore confidence in the institution entrusted with managing over R3 trillion of government employee pension savings and workers’ funds. In the last few …
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ActionSA stands firmly with the security guards of the City of Johannesburg. It has been almost 10 years since the then Mayor of Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba, insourced security officers. However, the City of Johannesburg is not applying the collective agreement correctly.
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By Paul Reynell – WPRD2026 Every communicator today is fighting for attention. We build messages, shape narratives, and push content into a world that feels increasingly crowded and impatient. Yet beneath all this effort sits a simple human truth our industry has stopped acknowledging. Humans live in rhythm. Not in neat audience segments or persona …
The National Consumer Commission (NCC) notifies consumers of a product safety recall issued by Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (Manufacturing) (Pty) Ltd. The recall affects certain 2017 – 2020 model year Ford Ranger and Ford Everest vehicles fitted with the 10R80 transmission. The affected vehicles were sold from 11 July 2018 to 28 February …
The boreholes had existed for three years before the NLC grant was awarded to the Mshandukani Foundation
25 July 2026 – Sasol Banyana Banyana will be among 16 nations vying for the title of continental championship in the upcoming CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON 2026) kicking off on Sunday in Morocco. Not only is the gold medal on the line for all the countries, but there is also a brewing
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Indebted South Africans will avoid an immediate increase in monthly repayments after the South African Reserve Bank kept interest rates unchanged at its July Monetary Policy Committee meeting yesterday. The MPC voted four to two to keep the repo rate at 7.00% and the prime lending rate at 10.50%. Two members supported a 25-basis-point increase. …
The amount spent on gambling and the number of people in need of help has skyrocketed
Fast facts about the iCAUR 03T The iCAUR 03T introduces a new fully electric SUV offering to the South African market, combining distinctive design, generous standard equipment, and a choice of rear-wheel drive or all-wheel-drive powertrains. The 03T is aimed at buyers looking for electric mobility with everyday practicality, advanced technology, and a bold SUV …
Healthcare teamwork is taught through western models. Ubuntu offers an African approach that could improve collaboration and patient care worldwide.
Airtel Africa has selected the London Stock Exchange for the planned initial public offering of its mobile money business, Airtel […]