Flash Briefing: Confiscate Zuma's passport, urges Mashaba; IMF message to SA; Covid vaccines; US market

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* ActionSA, a party headed by former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba, is urged the government to investigate reports emerging from numerous sources indicate that former President Jacob Zuma may be readying to jet out of South Africa.
* As South Africa prepares to release its annual budget later this month, the International Monetary Fund has underscored the necessity to curb the country’s excessive public sector wag
* South Africa has secured 20 million doses of Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine as the death toll from the disease moves past 42,000, the Johannesburg-based Sunday Times newspaper reported.
* This wek investors will get a look at fresh data on the manufacturing sector, earnings from Amazon and Google parent Alphabet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
31 Jan 2021 6AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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