Isaac Wolfson News Today

What a pity it is that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his team have thus far been so ineffectual at extolling the bounce-back from the depths of the Liz Truss horror show of October 2022.

The ANC’s alliance partners in the Eastern Cape have said they will support the party in the 2024 general elections but have raised a list of concerns they say it needs to pay attention to. Provincial leaders of the alliance said at the weekend that the ANC could no longer ignore the fact that the majority of the people were still living below the poverty line — 29 years after SA’s first democratic elections.

ANC treasurer-general Dr Gwen Ramokgopa has appealed to business leaders who are members of the party to openly fund the organisation and “not in dark corners, under the table or in brown envelopes”. She was speaking at the provincial ANC's gala dinner at Boardwalk Hotel in Gqeberha on Friday evening ahead of the ANC's review of the 2019 manifesto to be held at Isaac Wolfson stadium on Saturday.

ANC Youth League provincial chair Vuyo Jali has called on the party to walk the talk and revitalise factories that it has been promising to rebuild for many years. Speaking at the packed Isaac Wolfson stadium in KwaZakhele, Gqeberha, on Saturday during the review of the ANC's 2019 manifesto, Jali said: "We have been speaking about the revitalisation of factories in Fort Jackson, Dimbaza (and Butterworth) for many years but up until today nothing has been done yet.

The Eastern Cape political leadership descended on the Isaac Wolfson Stadium in Kwazakhele to celebrate Youth Day with the promise of creating jobs for the next generation.

From the blog of David Latchman at The Times of Israel

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Zambia has reached the COSAFA Women’s Championship final with a 2-1 victory over Tanzania at the Isaac Wolfson stadium in Gqeberha on Friday. The score was one-all at halftime. Zambia were bidding to reach their second Cosafa Championship final since 2019, where they lost to South Africa, while Tanzania were looking to reach their second […]