Flash Briefing: SA home of world's biggest black market; vaccine hesitancy despite fast pace of covid deaths; Zuma

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*A SHOCKING new report shows a tsunami of illegal tobacco is flooding South Africa as a result of authorities’ failure to act on damning evidence of the world’s biggest black market.
*Steinhoff International, which is still grappling with the consequences of an accounting scandal that wiped out R200bn in shareholder value, says Dublin-based Hamilton has withdrawn an appeal relating to voting procedure in its proposed settlement plan.
*One of the world’s fastest pace of deaths from Covid-19 infections hasn’t been able to trounce widespread hesitancy over vaccines in South Africa.
*South African police plan to arrest former President Jacob Zuma by midnight on Wednesday in the absence of any further instruction from the Constitutional Court, Police Ministry spokeswoman Lirandzu Themba said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7 Jul 2021 8AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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