Two Jewish guys just tied the knot on Israeli prime time TV

Read More After five seasons, the Channel 12 reality show “Married at First Sight” has now broken the paradigm of a groom, a bride – a wedding. An unusual and unprecedented episode was aired this weekend, in which Matan and Guy, two grooms, stood under the chuppah and broke the glasses together. The families arrived […]

Criminal probe into Thungela Resources for ‘catastrophic’ acid mine water spill

Read More More than 20 years ago, Carol Wade packed up her life in Johannesburg and moved to the scenic heart of the Zusterstroom Valley in Bronkhorstspruit.  Life here has been idyllic: fresh, clean mountain water, pristine bushveld and a tight-knit community of lodge owners and farmers who rely on the largely natural Wilge River […]

Long-lost recordings of Eichmann confessing to the Final solution revealed

Read More Buenos Aires, 1957. Some three years before he was caught by the Mossad, one of the people responsible for executing the Nazis’ Final Solution to the Jewish question meets a few times with a Dutch journalist named Willem Sassen. The senior Nazi figure who fled to Argentina and managed to avoid the Nuremberg […]

Tortured into confession: Two Palestinians recount hellish interrogation

Read More Two young Palestinian men, who were ultimately convicted of throwing rocks at police, say they were subjected to torture during more than a month of interrogation by the Shin Bet security service: painfully bound to a chair for full days, placed in solitary confinement, deprived of food and sleep and denied bathroom access. […]

Biden Says US Considering Removing Tariffs on China

Read More President Joe Biden said on Monday that his administration is “considering” removing some Trump-era trade tariffs currently imposed on China, as a measure designed to help reduce pressures from record inflation in the United States. Biden, on his first trip to the Indo-Pacific region as president, arrived in Japan on Sunday after visiting […]

OPINION | The whistleblowers who lose everything and why we owe them a deep dept

Read More In 2006 I participated in the Ethical Leadership conference, which I learned had grown out of Nelson Mandela’s recognition that our deeply traumatised society needed an “RDP of the soul”.  I recognise that children are born with an innate sense of right and wrong, of what is just and unjust — an innate […]

Burn them — that’s what happens to expired Covid vaccines

Read More Medicines, including vaccines, are a bit like tin food. Although they can sit in the cupboard unopened for a long time, they don’t last forever. And once they’re past their expiry date they have to be thrown away. At the end of September, South Africa will almost certainly have to deal with such […]