South Africa

Elon Musk-owned Twitter is in second place, with 9.79%. Pinterest has a 7.86% market share and is in third place, while Meta-Owned Instagram is in fourth place ...

However, globally, Pinterest (17.45%) is not the dominant social media platform on desktop, with Facebook having a market share of nearly 50%. Despite Facebook having the largest market share for social media platforms on mobile and tablet devices in South Africa, it does not have the largest market share on desktop. Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world, with a 69.32% market share. Youtube (1.89%), LinkedIn (0.75%), and Reddit (0.26%) did not even achieve 5% of the market share. Pinterest has a 7.86% market share and is in third place, while Meta-Owned Instagram is in fourth place with a 6.93% market share. [GlobalStats Statcounter ](https://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats/all/south-africa)data, as of February 2023, Facebook had a market share greater than all social media platforms combined – with a 72.4% market share.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are the backbone of economic development in emerging markets like India, South Africa, Kenya and Colombia, ...

South Africa is still in quite a reasonable position from a debt-to-GDP perspective...

This effectively means that the US will use more expensive debt to pay off cheaper debt, and the interest rate bill will just keep rising. This will have a material impact on corporate earnings and the Japanese equity market. We have a good portion of our taxes going to welfare, but we need to balance that against investment for future economic growth. For example, businesses are therefore choosing to pay off some of the debt on the balance sheet rather than embarking on share-repurchase programmes. Which in turn means that the US will incur even more debt, some of which will be used to pay off maturing debt. In investing, we consider the global debt burden and rising debt-servicing costs when we structure portfolios.

EFF leader Julius Malema has vowed that if need be, he would pick Vladimir Putin up from the airport and escort him to the BRICS meetings, and no one would ...

In Cuito Cuanavale (a town in Angola), the weapons that were used there that led to the liberation of South Africa were coming from Russia. We know very well that when the US says we are going to install peace, there will no longer be peace as long as America visits that place. And I think that is still a challenge for the ICC in particular, given what is happening in Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and many other areas,” said Pandor. “The former prime minister (of England) Tony Blair admitted that he made a horrible mistake when it comes to Saddam Hussein – they have not been charged today. “Putin is welcome here, and no one is going to arrest Putin. We continue to be a member State of the Rome treaty,” said Pandor. And we said, no, we are concerned about the situation of the people of Ukraine. Bush is still there, and they have not been charged. I am sure the president (Cyril Ramaphosa) will speak to other heads of State. So, there are different opinions across the country, it is not all the way an attitude of total objection to Russia,” she said. “Well, I have not used the word ‘wrong’, but I expressed a view of even-handedness. South Africa would be obliged to arrest Putin and hand him over if he sets foot on its soil.

South Africa's government is looking for legal advice on how to handle the arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin.

South Africa is unlikely to arrest any visiting head of state, said two officials at the foreign ministry who declined to be identified. South Africa has adopted a neutral stance on Russia’s war with Ukraine. The ICC issued the warrant against Putin on March 18 for war crimes related to the alleged abduction of children from Ukraine.

The government is taking legal advice on how to handle an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin in the event the ...

South Africa is unlikely to arrest any visiting head of state, said two officials at the foreign ministry who declined to be identified. The ICC issued the warrant on March 18 for war crimes related to the alleged abduction of children from Ukraine. “We are concerned about the situation of the people of Ukraine.

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's Foreign Minister, believes that the Republic of South Africa will not be able to ignore Russian President Vladimir Putin's ...

South African opposition minority party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has said Vladimir Putin is welcome to their country despite an arrest warrant ...

We know the people who liberated us. We know the people who supported us.” We know the people who supported us." It has also abstained during UN votes condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. No one is going to arrest Putin. "Putin is welcomed here.

Pretoria, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) The South African government is today considering the legal elements related to the possible presence in the country of the ...

In this regard, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reminded that Russia is not a member of the Rome Statute of the ICC and does not have any obligations under it. We are making this assessment given that South Africa is a member state of the Rome Statute of the ICC, she explained. In this regard, the Minister of International Relations, Naledi Pandor, said that her Ministry is awaiting an updated legal opinion on an invitation for Putin to attend the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for his arrest.

South African authorities are weighing all options to avoid complying with the ICC arrest warrant issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin, ...

Julius Malema of the populist Economic Freedom Fighters said Vladimir Putin would be “welcome” in South Africa later this year, despite the threat of an ...

We know the people who supported us.” We know the people who liberated us. “He will address, finish all his meetings, and we will take him back to the airport.”

While all cultures use shame to manage crime, stigma, unlike reintegrative shaming, drives ex-offenders away from the idea of reintegration into the arms of ...

If “nothing works” in terms of sustainable rehabilitation and reintegration, as indeed the literature on rehabilitation efforts shows evidence of despair, we should ask ourselves why this is so and draw the obvious conclusions. One such marginalisation practice is the recycling of ex-offenders for profit (and/or other nefarious purpose[s]) rather than public safety. [because “[t]he](https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/cjm/article/against-rehabilitation-reparative-justice) majority of criminal prisoners worldwide have, prior to their imprisonment, usually been so economically and/or socially disadvantaged that they have nothing to which they can be advantageously rehabilitated. In my view, we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. With a recidivism rate of as high as 90%, South Africa certainly has one of the highest re-offending rates in the world. [He suggests that](https://www3.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/vol6_1/Burton2.htm?gmuw-rd=sm&gmuw-rdm=ht) [d]eterrence does not deter sane behaviours, and the power political frame was unrealistic because no account was taken of relevant human factors: here are ontological, inherent human needs that cannot be suppressed, (needs of identity and recognition that are the bases of relatedness), which make deterrence sometimes irrelevant at all societal levels. A state of affairs compounded, undoubtedly, by stigma, marginalisation, the PIC and unmet human needs satisfaction. The disturbing phenomenon of people cycling in and out of prison, trapped by their second-class status, has been described by Loic Wacquant as a “closed circuit of perpetual marginality.” Hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison every year, only to find themselves locked out of the mainstream society and economy. Stigma and the PIC, as Alexander’s quote demonstrates, work hand- in-hand to crush the notion of rehabilitation. [prison-industrial complex (PIC)](https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.25159/2413-3086/7000) and the harsh stigmatising shaming culture in South Africa. Accordingly, it has [been suggested that](https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.25159/2413-3086/7000), While all cultures use shame to manage crime, stigma, unlike reintegrative shaming, drives ex-offenders away from the idea of reintegration into the arms of accepting criminal subcultures.

March 2020 was a watershed in our lives, but in retrospect it had very little to do with the virus at all.

Not once did those “family meetings” ever entertain the kind of media scrutiny that a typical press conference would – for that was all they were. The lockdown was part of a state of disaster that would endure for an unprecedented 750 days until it was finally lifted last April. It was a time that South Africans felt that he had our best interests at heart, that he was at the forefront of leading this country’s co-ordinated response to the greatest global public health crisis in living memory.

Across South Africa assassinations are on the rise as organised crime, corruption and criminality turn contract killings into a booming industry.

The man died at the scene. Those who hire the killers to do their blood work are rarely caught. “There are very, very good forensic processes in place, but they need to be jacked up. This needs to be tightened up so the process flow of a firearm being licensed or deregistered has a proper track path. Good forensic work is also being done to link murders, he said. Chapter nine institutions tasked with protecting democracy in the country are also not providing any protection, she added. However, this is not something we investigate because it’s not our mandate to do so,” said Reenen. At this stage, you know the system is failing the victims,” Mathios said. These hit men work for everyone willing to pay.” The high-calibre weapons are often used by assassins, frequently in drive-by shootings. Thomas died on the scene, his father two days later. Last Saturday insolvency practitioner Cloete Murray and his son Thomas were gunned down at the Engen Big Bird 1 Stop, on the N1 Highway in Midrand.