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The Grammys launch Best African Music Performance category for 2024 awards show, SA debates who deserves it
The Grammys have launched the Best African Music Performance category for the 2024 Awards show. Mzansi has debated on which SA act deserves to take it home.
33-year-old KZN designer Nelson beams as he sees his sustainably made product on Mr Price Home shelves
A talented designer by the name of Nelson Dumakudehas has turned ocean and river waste into a stunning design that is now being sold in Mr Price Home stores.
TikTok video of Mzansi fitness vlogger celebrating by doing pull-ups after “surviving” Gauteng earthquake
TikTok of a callisthenics athlete doing muscle-up tricks stunned social media users. People also couldn't get over how he claimed to be an earthquake survivor.
AIIB serves China's Communist Party: Canadian former executive
China's ruling Communist Party dominates the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and uses it to further its interests, a former executive has alleged in claims that prompted Canada to suspend participation in the institution. Speaking from Tokyo, he said the bank "serves China's interest" and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wields "undue" influence over every aspect of its operations.
TikTok video of schoolgirl asking motorists to repent on street corner gets 585K views
A High School student preached a message of repentance at a street intersection and told motorist that Jesus was coming. The moving video went viral on TikTok.
ECB tipped to hike rates again, as Fed hits pause
The European Central Bank is expected to again hike interest rates on Thursday and signal that the fight against inflation is not over yet, analysts said, even as the eurozone falls into recession. Like all central banks, the ECB has to walk a fine line in raising interest rates sufficiently to dampen demand and contain inflation, without provoking a sharp economic slowdown in the process.
Key issues straining China-Canada relations
Canada has said it is freezing its participation in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, after a former executive alleged that Beijing wields "undue" influence over the multilateral organisation. - AIIB spat - Allegations of Chinese meddling have now led Ottawa to say it will "immediately halt all government-led activity" at the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Asian markets rise as Fed holds rates, China cuts
Asian markets rose Thursday after the Federal Reserve decided against hiking interest rates and China's central bank cut borrowing costs as officials look to kickstart the struggling economy. Traders are now looking ahead to a policy decision by the European Central Bank later Thursday, with another hike expected.
China central bank cuts key interest rate to boost economy
China's central bank cut a key interest rate and injected $33 billion into financial markets Thursday, as data showed the world's second-largest economy was flagging. China's six largest state-owned commercial banks cut interest rates for savers on Thursday to boost spending, according to announcements on their websites, after being asked by the central bank.
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