ASAmadou Sarr
Amadou covers politics and power, and the moments that turn a debate into a national argument.
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From today a litre of 95 in Gauteng costs R30.25, a South African record. We took the government's own price sheet apart, line by line, and followed the money to Treasury, the Road Accident Fund and an emergency oil reserve that a court found was sold unlawfully.
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A card payment that lands days late, a debit order, a monthly fee. Here is why South African bank accounts slip into the minus with no overdraft, how to find the cause and how to dispute it.
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The president has ruled out a vote. Activists have written to Donald Trump. And a poll says most Western Cape voters want a say on leaving South Africa.
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Branch visits, a private banker and emails to the top. FNB told him it was sorted. His account still shows minus R7,000, and a wave of other customers say theirs does too.
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Six weeks after leaving the White House to spend time with her children, Karoline Leavitt is on Fox News calling Democrats "liberal lunatics". On 1 November she joins the network for real.
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Plague is normally stopped with a week of antibiotics. Russia sealed hospitals instead. An MIT biosecurity expert says that points to a germ drugs can't stop, or something else entirely, and Senator Rand Paul is spreading the warning.
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A South African farmer survived three attacks and lost his father-in-law to a fourth. His story has reignited the fight over farm violence, and over who is counting.
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