A headline on a business site caught my eye this weekend: a bevy of billionaires saw their net worth increase by half a trillion dollars during 2020 — slap-bang in the middle of the global pandemic.
Continue reading →Cyril Ramaphosa said adherence to Covid-19 regulations helped significantly reduce hospital admissions and the number of daily infections.
Continue reading →SA author, anti-apartheid activist and security expert Bradley Steyn, who lives in the US, said on Monday he had been issued with a warrant of arrest.
Continue reading →The IFP on Monday criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa for his praise of the Cuban medics who were in the country, saying this overshadowed the praise he gave to local health-care front-line workers.
Continue reading →More than three decades after not winning the military conflict against the apartheid regime, the ANC’s military wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), is rapidly becoming a rabble-rousing, but dangerous force in the country.
Continue reading →Climate change and an exploding human population are fuelling the growing threat of water shortages, and protecting and restoring wetlands is vital to counter this trend.
Continue reading →World Wetlands Day (February 2) is being celebrated in Nelson Mandela Bay with the launch of a new project to rehabilitate a saltworks in the catchment of the Swartkops Estuary.
Continue reading →It was a video that went viral — a law student criminally charged for using the K-word and members of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro police in turn accused of manhandling him when he was seen dragged kicking and screaming … Continue reading →
The ongoing conversation by ANC members about the recent swearing in of Dr Xiaomei Harvard as an MP has exposed concerning things about the ANC.
Continue reading →SA will remain under lockdown level 3, but a number of the restrictions – including the ban on the sale of alcohol and the restrictions on worship – have been eased.
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