On this International Anti-Corruption Day it’s apt to look at how far we’ve come since our lost decade plus of state capture under Jacob Zuma’s rule, and it isn’t a good sight. We thought the Zondo Commission would see the state capture perpetrators brought to book and herald an end to large-scale corruption. We thought wrong. In …
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The first lab tests into omicron showing that the Covid-19 variant can partially sidestep the protection afforded by vaccines are somewhat worrisome, but not as worrisome as the people entrusted with serving and protecting our people behaving outright shamelessly, over and over again. Parliament was told yesterday that the Special Investigating Unit is investigating R14.8bn worth of alleged …
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Donald Trump is on a mission and nameless rich people are not shy to back him in his fight against the “tyranny of Big Tech”. And if he can’t be on Twitter, Facebook or Youtube, he’ll just start his own social media platform. With Truth Social he aims to help an overwhelming number of Americans see the truth and scarily …
South Africa’s ocean is under attack, and with it lives and livelihoods. Shell’s plans to explore for oil and gas along our pristine Wild Coast poses a huge, long-term threat for both ocean and human life. Not only could it be deadly and cause irreparable harm to the ocean but it could destroy the livelihoods of the rurals along …
We have so much to deal with: omicron, expensive food and fuel, high unemployment, missed parties… the list is long, so here’s something different for your weekend table talk. In the UK (surprisingly not the US), in a landmark ruling that aims to fix the responsibility of healthcare professionals and hold them liable for improper …
Image: Public Domain It took Capitec just 20 years to not only break the dominance of South Africa’s Big Four but to also overtake Standard Bank for the first time to become SA’s second-biggest bank by market value. Earlier this year the bank also took over FNB’s throne of South Africa’s Best Digital Bank. In just …
Once a hawk, always a hawk. Barely a week after his reappointment and probably spooked by the latest coronavirus scare, Jerome Powell showed his claws to the inflation monster, signalling that it’s time to wrap up bond purchases a few months sooner and retired the word “transitory” to describe high inflation. Bloomberg reports that could open the …
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We have a jobs problem and later today we’ll see just how big. In the second quarter of this year our unemployment rate hit a new record high to 34.4%, mostly because of the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. Now economists expect the numbers to balloon due to that devastating eight days in July that crippled businesses in …
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President Cyril Ramaphosa may have left the lockdown restrictions on level 1 but the world has locked us out, “punishing” rather than applauding us for being vigilant and swiftly detecting and reporting on the newly named omicron Covid variant. The omicron variant has now been detected in several regions of the world, and putting in place travel bans that …
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The worst one we’ve seen so far. More transmissible than the Delta strain. Vaccines we currently have may be less effective. Alarmist or genuine warnings against the new Covid strain – B.1.1.529 – found in South Africa? The world certainly sees it as a real enemy, with the UK temporarily halting all passenger flights from South Africa and …
