News24 | DA’s secret March and March meeting; SARB hikes rate again: Today’s top 7 stories
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DA Gauteng North Region chairperson Crezane Bosch embracing March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma in a now-deleted photo uploaded to Facebook.
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Tension flares in the DA as Gauteng leaders meet March and March on the quiet
- Over the weekend, DA members met with immigration protest group March and March for the second time.
- However, images of the meeting on social media have now been removed without explanation.
- This will add to internal tensions within the party, already split over the inclusion of a councillor who faked his qualifications in the party’s PR candidate list for the City of Cape Town.
The SA Reserve Bank building in Pretoria.
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Reserve Bank hikes rate as fuel prices keep up inflation pressure
- The Reserve Bank raises its policy rate by 25 basis points to 7.25%, lifting the prime rate to 10.75%.
- Lesetja Kganyago warns that multiplying global shocks and second-round inflation risks demand a more restrictive policy.
- Higher rates push up household debt costs as consumers also face fuel price increases of up to R3 per litre.
PepsiCo says the roller-drying process behind the original ProNutro – a blend of cooked maize, soya, peanuts and skimmed milk – is too expensive, and the ageing machinery too difficult to maintain. Yet newer, more cost-efficient processes have failed to replicate the cereal’s distinctive characteristics.
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RIP ProNutro: PepsiCo pulls the plug after 64 years
- PepsiCo is discontinuing ProNutro in South Africa, 64 years after it was launched.
- This comes five months after the group faced backlash for its “new generation” ProNutro which consumers rejected.
- PepsiCo says, despite its best efforts, it could not recreate the original taste and texture with new technology.
Cat Matlala’s former proxy director now lives off R60k allowance from boyfriend, court hears
- The former proxy director of Medicare 24 Tshwane District, Claudette Masethe, says she is unemployed and survives on a R60 000 allowance she receives monthly from her boyfriend.
- She appeared in court on Wednesday alongside Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, Tsakane Matlala, and Given Makofane.
- The four are charged in connection with a R1.2-million lease for a plush property in Waterkloof, Pretoria, which Matlala allegedly secured by posing as a Swati prince, as News24 previously exposed.
US President Donald Trump greets President Cyril Ramaphosa as he arrives at the White House, Washington DC in May 2025.
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Ramaphosa replied to Trump, SA negotiators say in response to Bozell’s barrage
- Pretoria has countered US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell’s claim that President Cyril Ramaphosa failed to respond to the White House’s preconditions for a diplomatic detente.
- Ramaphosa sent a six-page letter to Trump 10 days ago.
- The missive responded to all US demands, including those on rural safety and black economic empowerment.
Proteas fast bowler Kwena Maphaka in training.
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Another Proteas quick ruled out for Australia ODIs
- Proteas fast bowler Kwena Maphaka has been ruled out of the ODI series against Australia.
- On the eve of the opening ODI against Australia in Durban, the Proteas are now without Maphaka, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi and Ottniel Baartman.
- Boland seamer Lizaad Williams has been called up to the squad.
Childhood star Hayden Panettiere died unexpectedly at the age of 36.
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Drug cocktail killed actor Hayden Panettiere, coroner finds
- Hayden Panettiere died from accidental fentanyl toxicity combined with other drugs, a US coroner said.
- Behind her career as a child star lay a long struggle with addiction, detailed in her memoir.
- An investigation is likely to focus on where she obtained the drugs, echoing the Matthew Perry overdose probe.
*These summaries were written with the support of Toqan AI.
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