Flash Briefing: Mantashe rejects coal ban; NUMSA rejects increased wage offer; Cele: 'insurrection case almost 'cracked'

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*Rich nations shouldn’t force South Africa to ban new coal-power projects and impose other conditions as a requirement for funding to help reduce its environmental footprint, the country’s energy minister said.
*South African steelworkers will continue to strike after rejecting an increased wage offer from employers.
*Three months on, police minister Bheki Cele says that the South African police are ‘close’ to cracking the insurrection plot, which the state claims was behind the mid-July riots and looting in KwaZulu Natal and parts of Gauteng. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14 Oct 2021 9AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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