Giorno: 27 Gennaio 2022

IN PHOTOS: Snow blankets Jerusalem as winter storm Elpis hits Israel

Read More Winter storm Elpis coated Jerusalem with almost eight inches of snow overnight into Thursday after blanketing the northern Golan Heights, the Upper Galilee and Mount Hermon. The Jerusalem municipality closed schools on Thursday and recommended that residents stay close to home, after some 20 centimeters (eight inches) of snow descended on the city. […]

As world remembers the Holocaust, survivors in Israel continue struggle

Read More Several dozen octogenarians, bundled against the cold, chattered in Russian and Hebrew as they picked through heaps of carrots, onions and grapefruit in a Jerusalem courtyard. Nearly all of them Holocaust survivors, they were picking up donations of food and winter blankets before a snowstorm hit the city on the eve of International […]

Millions of rand lost as SANDF returns unauthorised Cuban Covid-19 drug

Read More The Department of Defence has no option but to return 500 000 vials of the unauthorised Covid-19 drug Interferon-Alpha-2B to Cuba, because the medicine will most likely expire before it can be used in South Africa.  Hold the powerful to account for R10 a month* Subscribers get access to all our best journalism, […]

Informal waste collection shouldn’t let plastic polluters off the hook

Read More There are an estimated 60 000 informal waste pickers, also known as reclaimers, in South Africa. They sift through mixed household waste, either from landfill sites or from bins on the streets, to extract recyclable material. In some other countries consumers are asked to divide recyclable and non-recyclable plastic packaging at home, known […]

PODCAST: ‘I had R40m debt at 26 – it felt like the end of my life’

Read More Podcasts 26 Jan 2022 This is Business Casual – a not-so-typical business podcast exploring different parts of the sector, and this week, it is all about being financially savvy.  Our guest this week is a money coach, personal finance commentator, and energy healer, among other things, Busi Selesho.  She chats with our business journalists […]

Economic Freedom Fighters turn on foreign nationals

Read More The past decade has seen worrying levels of anti-foreigner hate speech and violence in South Africa. According to the African Centre for Migration and Society, there were more than 40 attacks on foreigners in eight of the past 13 years — and more in 2019 than in any year in the last 10 […]