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Ramaphosa wins ANC leadership vote

  Bloomberg Cyril Ramaphosa comfortably won re-election as head of South Africa’s governing party just weeks after a scandal threatened to derail his political career, and now faces an uphill battle to rebuild its flagging support heading into a national vote in 2024. Rampahosa allies also won most of the African National Congress’s (ANC) other six top party positions, giving ...

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UK’s Rwanda asylum seeker policy is lawful, judges rule

  Bloomberg The UK government’s flagship immigration policy plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, London judges ruled. The plan, which involves flying asylum seekers arriving in Britain some 4,000 miles (6,437.4 kilometres) to the African nation to be processed according to Rwandan laws, spurred several legal challenges from human rights campaigners. The government has consistently backed the ...

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HDFC sets target to issue one million credit cards a month

  Bloomberg India’s largest private bank HDFC Bank Ltd is seeking to issue a million credit cards a month, a remarkable bounce-back for the lender after the country’s regulator banned it from taking on new card clients two years ago. The bank wants to double the current pace of half a million new credit card issuances every month, according to ...

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