The ANC national elective conference is less than three weeks away, and President Cyril Ramaphosa is sitting pretty after the release of the final list of nominees following the branch nomination process. The incumbent party president has a healthy lead over his challenger Zweli Mkhize, but the real fight is yet to begin. Qaanitah Hunter …
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Warren Buffet hates Bitcoin. In fact, the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ said if you offered him all the Bitcoin in the world for $25, he wouldn’t take you up on the offer. Once the world’s wealthiest man, Buffet is right to be sceptical of cryptocurrency given the recent collapse of the FTX Exchange. Recently, BlockFi, …
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Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been anything short but uneventful. The world’s wealthiest man pulled out showmanship on his first day as the social media company’s new owner by bringing a kitchen sink to the office in a literal expression of the phrase. He followed that up with a massive round of job cuts, …
The latest edition of football’s showpiece event kicks off this weekend with 32 nations all vying to become the next world champion at the FIFA World Cup hosted for the first time in the Middle East state of Qatar. But the build-up to soccer’s premier event has been marred by accusations of appalling labour practices …
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The ANC concluded its latest National Executive Committee meeting over the past weekend and rather than spend the time preparing the party for the coming National Elective Conference next month – the weekend was consumed with debates over whether Cyril Ramaphosa should step aside as president. Below is a round-up of trending opinions: Justice Malala …
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After the spectacular collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, many commentators have been left wondering whether the crypto bubble – long foreshadowed – has finally burst, leaving many investors in a world of pain. Below is a round-up of opinion pieces you need to read today: Michael W. Green writes that former FTX CEO Sam …
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Back in 2004, in what was surely a dingy Harvard dorm room filled with empty cans of energy drinks and smelly nerds, Facebook was conceived by Mark Zuckerberg and a cohort of other misfits who never could have imagined the enormous success that the social media giant would achieve. But fast forward to 2022 and …
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The ANC and EFF were said to be working together on electing a new mayor for the City of Ekurhuleni after two ANC councillors led a motion of no confidence against DA mayor, Tania Campbell, two weeks ago. On Tuesday, as the city council sat to elect a new mayor, an extraordinary sequence of events …
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Bjorn Lomborg pens that every year, world leaders arrive to discuss global climate change while using carbon-emitting private jets to lecture humanity about reducing carbon emissions. “The world’s major development organisations — at the behest of wealthy countries — refuse to fund fossil fuel exploitation that poor countries could use to lift themselves out of poverty.” Lomborg argues that …
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The US Embassy in South Africa issued a terror alert to all its citizens in the country last week, warning of an imminent terror attack set to take place in the affluent Sandton area over the past weekend. The alert caused much furore among local authorities and politicians with some denying there would be any …
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