From Business Insider South Africa:
South Africans may own a big stake in Oxford’s promising Covid-19 vaccine – eventually
The new rules about cars, taxis – including a ‘grace period’ when you travel at night in lockdown
High-end South African designers are now selling cloth face masks – and they’re affordable
WILD VIDEO: Vultures fight off a cheetah, but then a lion enters the battle
Flight Centre to shut 40% of its stores, kills its cruise brand
SA has some of Africa’s most expensive data, a new report says – but it is better for the richer
Covid-19: 3 Russian healthcare workers fell out of hospital windows under mysterious circumstances
Today's headlines:
1. Comair – which owns kulula and operates British Airways in SA - has entered voluntary business rescue after it suffered a loss of more than half a billion rand in just six months. Read more.
2. The commissioner of the SA Revenue Service, Edward Kieswetter, has warned that the combined impact of SA's struggling economy and the lockdown could mean a loss of up to R285 billion in tax revenues this year. Read more.
3. Draft new government regulations may pave the way for municipalities to generate or buy their own electricity. Read more.
4. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has said that South African businesses, regardless of race, should receive state support with a "bias towards emerging black business people", as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter the country's already-struggling economy. Read more.
5. Caxton will exit magazine publishing, and is looking for buyers for titles like Bona, Country Life, Garden & Home, People, Rooi Rose, Your Family. Read more.
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Fact of the day
More than 3 billion people could potentially end up living in unbearable heat in the next 50 years, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America showed. Read more.
