Stars urge Commonwealth to oppose UK plan to send refugees to Rwanda

Read More British celebrities have urged Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda to oppose the UK’s plan to deport refugees to the country, saying it shows a “colonial view” of Africa as a “dumping ground”. It comes as a summit of Commonwealth prime ministers and presidents is under way in Kigali, the first time the gathering has […]

Art imitates life at the National Arts Festival

Read More Grahamstown was renamed Makhanda at about this time in 2018.  Lieutenant Colonel John Graham established the town named after him in 1812 and Makhanda ka Nxele was the warrior and prophet who advised Chief Ndlambe and encouraged the attack on Grahamstown in 1819.  Minister of Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa said at the […]

Kenya opposition leader selects woman as running mate

Read More Kenya’s former prime minister, Raila Odinga, a frontrunner in August’s presidential election, chose Martha Karua, a former justice and constitutional affairs minister, as his running mate.  It makes her the first woman in Kenya to run on a major political party’s presidential ticket.  Before this, she was a fierce opponent of Odinga. In […]

How the Christian right took over the judiciary and changed America

Read More The supreme court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which reverses the constitutional abortion rights that American women have enjoyed over the past 50 years, has come as a surprise to many voters. A majority, after all, support reproductive rights and regard their abolition as regressive and barbaric. Understood in the […]

Japan’s Inflation Tops Central Bank’s Target for 2nd Month in Test of Monetary Stance

Read More TOKYO—Japan’s annual core consumer inflation topped the central bank’s target for a second straight month in May, data showed on Friday, highlighting the intensifying pressure on the country’s fragile economy from soaring global raw material costs. The data challenges the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) view that the recent rise in prices is temporary, […]

Boris Johnson is waging culture war against trade unions, warns TUC chief

Read More The UK government has been accused of waging a culture war against workers rather than pushing to resolve strikes on the railways, amid growing anger among public sector workers over pay and conditions. The head of the TUC said ministers appeared to be more interested in stoking tensions between different groups of workers […]

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