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South Africa floats universal basic income for all
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...income-for-all

A week before the election, it released a statement deepening its commitment to finalising a policy to transform the state’s Covid grant into a universal basic income (UBI) within two years of forming a new administration.

If implemented, this would make South Africa the first country in the world to work towards a policy of paying all people between the ages of 18 and 59 a regular grant, with no condition to be seeking work.

At the moment, South Africa’s Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD) is paid to people who have less money entering their account each month than the individual food poverty line – or the minimum needed to afford food with enough calories to survive.

The ANC has committed to expanding eligibility to all adults by progressively increasing the means-test threshold.

But the system is far from perfect. The payments are just R370, the equivalent of about £16, or half the income needed to meet the extreme or “food” poverty line, and millions of people do not get the grant each month.

The IEJ says the process is designed to be exclusionary. It is given digitally, in a country where not everyone has a computer and internet access, and uses automated means-testing systems that often exclude eligible people, the IEJ says.

Ngỏ lời nói với công dân
Tiền trăm lại cứ nguyên ngân phát hoàn
(Chính trường dân thanh)

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Afri-ca này khó:

Mpox outbreak in Africa is public health emergency
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...y-declares-who

The World Health Organization said the outbreak was serious enough to declare a “public health emergency of international concern”, the category used in the past for Ebola outbreaks, Covid-19 and a 2022 mpox surge in Europe.

Lang added that if the virus arrived in Europe or the US, it would probably be easily contained with vaccination, as in the 2022 mpox outbreak. “What worries me is that that will happen very fast in Europe, but not […] in these really impoverished areas in Africa.”

Hết nạn này tới nạn kia
Cô vy xong lại Monkey đậu mùa
(Y trường tân thanh)

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Hỏi đá kim cương bao nhiêu tuổi đời?

Botswana diamond could be second-largest gem
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...nd-largest-gem

The Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond Corp said it had recovered the “exceptional” stone from its Karowe diamond mine, with a photo showing the hefty rough diamond sitting in the cupped palm of a hand.

The largest gem-quality diamond ever discovered was the 3,106 carat Cullinan diamond, which was mined in South Africa in 1905 when it was still a British colony and gifted to King Edward VII. It was cut up into several gems, some of which are now part of the Crown Jewels.

Lucara’s president, William Lamb, said: “We are ecstatic about the recovery of this extraordinary 2,492-carat diamond.”

Trong như ngọc trắng như gòn
Dày dày sẵn đúc một hòn thiên nhiên
(Hột xoàn tân thanh)

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Số đào hoa:

South Africa’s Eswatini king’s 16th wife
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...ings-16th-wife

Zuma, 21, appeared on Monday night at the annual reed dance as the liphovela – the royal fiancee or concubine – and will become King Mswati III’s 16th wife.

The 56-year-old king has led Africa’s last absolute monarchy since taking power in 1986, days after his 18th birthday, and has been criticised for his lavish lifestyle while most of the population lives in poverty.

The king rules the country of 1.2 million people by decree, with political parties banned and elected officials only existing in an advisory capacity.

Chém cha cái số hoa đào
Hở ra là lại vợ vào như chơi
Nghĩ đời mà ngán cho đời
Vợ nhiều chi lắm nghe lời dạ vâng
(Tình trường tân thanh)

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the art show in the shadow of Giza pyramids
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...w-giza-tourism

Visitors to the pyramids of Giza are being greeted by a series of artworks as Egypt stages its annual contemporary art exhibition at the 4,500-year-old Unesco world heritage site.

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Buôn người:

Joe Biden addresses America’s ‘original sin’ of slavery on Angola visit
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e-biden-angola

“We remember the stolen men and women and children who were brought to our shores in chains, subjected to unimaginable cruelty,” Biden said, as the sun set over the water behind him.

“The United States is founded on an idea, one embedded in our Declaration of Independence, that all men and women are created equal,” he said, as rain started to fall and a rainbow then appeared. “It is abundantly clear today we have not lived up to that idea, but we have not fully walked away from it either.”

The first enslaved Africans to arrive in the US were shipped to Hampton, in the then British colony of Virginia, from Angola in 1619. Almost a quarter of the 472,000 people forced into slavery in the US came from the west and central region of Africa that includes Angola, according to the Slave Voyages database.

Today, there are nearly 12 million Americans of Angolan descent.

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