NEW: KZN toll road construction begins - Sanral

South African National Roads Agency CEO Nazir Alli announced on Wednesday that construction of the N2 Wild Coast toll road, in KwaZulu-Natal, had officially begun.

Speaking to the business sector at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga, Alli said: “We are finally starting to build the Wild Coast toll road, we signed the design agreement in January 2003 and 13 years later we have had a briefing session for prequalifying the contractors on the job.”

He said research done on communities living between Port Edward and Port St Johns showed that people in the area had gotten poorer in the thirteen years.


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NEW: Drought pushes SA maize imports to highest since '93

South Africa became a net importer of the grain for the first time since 2008 this year, bringing in the most in two decades after the worst drought in more than a century hurt local output.

The nation imported 1.96 million metric tons of corn in the marketing year ended April 29, Pretoria-based South African Grain Information Service said in a statement on its website. That’s the most since 1993. Exports were 683 523 tons, it said.

South Africa last year had the least rainfall since records started in 1904, damaging crops and raising prices. It may need to import 3.8 million tons of yellow and white corn this year to bolster domestic supplies, according to Grain SA, the biggest lobby group for farmers of corn.


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NEW: SAA voyager miles spend hits new record

South African Airways says its new revenue-based airline loyalty programme has helped it reach a new milestone, exceeding 7.8 billion mile earnings and 5.7 billion miles spent.

It issues at least 15 000 Voyager Miles every minute, with an estimated 10 000 Miles being redeemed simultaneously during the past 12 months.


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NEW: Off-Duty Paramedic In CT Saves Man’s Life

An off-duty paramedic has saved a man’s life after he suffered an apparent heart attack while travelling on a bus in Cape Town.

The paramedic was en-route to work this morning when he noticed one of the passengers in his late forties experiencing difficulty breathing.

ER24’s Russel Meiring says the patient's vital signs returned after several minutes of CPR.


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NEW: RMF waitress set to buy place near mom after online fundraisers net over R130,000

A R50 donation that snowballed into a social media fundraising campaign for a Cape Town waitress has delivered R44,777 to the woman who was humiliated by #RhodesMustFall activist Ntokozo Qwabe.

Sihle Ngobese handed R50 to Ashleigh Schultz‚ 23‚ when he tracked her down at Obz Cafe in Observatory‚ after hearing how Qwabe and a friend‚ Wandile Dlamini‚ had reduced her to tears last week.

Instead of leaving her a tip‚ Dlamini wrote on their bill:"We will give tip when you return the land.”


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NEW: SACP Supports Banks’s Withdrawal From Gupta-Owned Company

South African Communist Party (SACP)'s Deputy General Secretary Jeremy Cronin says the party supports the decision of South Africa’s four main banking groups, to withdraw their services from companies owned by the Gupta family.

Cronin says the banks have done the right thing by ending their relationships with companies owned by the Gupta family.

“The withdrawal of the services should not be seen as some imperialist plot as being alleged in certain quarters. We are saying it’s a precautionary move on the part of the bank, but also the stockbroker and KPMG.”


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NEW: Military, political leaders behind murky Angola deepwater oil deals

On the surface, the contract between Markwell and Pinsong, two shell companies with no owners or substantial business activity, appears a little unseemly but also legal and unremarkable, as offshore dealings often are.

Pinsong, the principal, paid a fee of €15-million to Markwell, the agent, in 2007 to assist a third party obtain Angolan deepwater oil concessions.

But leaked data from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based offshore service raises questions about how these entities assisted others in obtaining the rights to drill for Angolan oil.


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