South Africa Current Affairs, GK & News
Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa launch CBDC Scheme
Central banks in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa launched a Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) Scheme on August 2, 2021. Key Points CBDC scheme is a cross border payments trial that uses different central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in order to assess if this allows transactions to be settled in a cheap and easy ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2021
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs • International Current Affairs
Topics: Australia • CBDC Scheme • entral bank digital currencies (CBDC) • Malaysia • Singapore • South Africa
Intellectual Property Waiver for COVID Vaccines
India and South Africa proposed for IP waiver at the World Trade Organisation in 2020. This has now been backed by the United States. The US will further negotiate at the World Trade Organisation to waive Intellectual property for COVID-19 vaccines. This will help in large scale production of COVID-19 vaccines in middle income countries. ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: AstraZeneca • COVID-19 vaccine • Intellectual property (IP) • Pfizer • South Africa • USA • World Trade Organisation (WTO)
WHO’s E-2025 initiative
The World Health Organisation recently identified twenty-five countries with the potential to eradicate malaria by 2025. This is called the E-2025 initiative. What is the plan? The identified 25 countries will work by responding to the dual threat of malaria and COVID-19. The WHO is to provide technical guidance and specialised support to these countries ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Botswana • COVID-19 • E-2025 • Eswatini • Malaria • South Africa • World Health Organisation
Satellite images for Elephant Survey
Recently, the researchers from the University of Oxford Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and Machine Learning Research Group have detected the elephants in South Africa using the Artificial Intelligence from space. This survey is being claimed as more accurate as compared to the detection by Human. For the purpose of survey, researchers used the highest resolution ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Category: Environment Current Affairs • International Current Affairs
Topics: African elephant • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Elephant Survey • Machine learning • Satellite images for Elephant Survey • South Africa
India to host men’s edition of junior hockey World Cup 2021
International Hockey Federation (FIH) recently announced that India will host the men’s edition of the junior hockey World Cup 2021. The women’s junior World Cup event will be held in Potchefstroom in South Africa. This is the first time the African continent is organising the apex sports event. The Continental qualifier matches are scheduled throughout ..
Topics: International Hockey Federation • Men's Hockey World Cup • South Africa