South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that his country had secured a total of 12 million doses of coronavirus vaccines through the international COVAX program.
MTN Group Ltd. has taken legal action against the terms of a highly anticipated auction of new broadband spectrum in South Africa, saying the company and rival Vodacom Group Ltd. are being shut out of bidding for the most appealing 5G bandwidth.
South Africa has reported at least one million cases of coronavirus since confirming its first case in March, the Ministry of Health said late on Sunday, only days after a new faster-spreading variant of the virus was confirmed to be breaking out in the country.
Coronavirus testing centres in South Africa are filling up as the country that has the most cases on the continent went into a second wave of the pandemic this month.
Seasoned South African politician Mandisi Mpahlwa jetted into Rwanda as ambassador-designate, in a move that is tipped to positively sway bilateral ties between the two countries.
