Giorno: 9 Ottobre 2022

The street school of Desiree Ellis

Read More It is only a slight exaggeration to say that Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis’s lasting education at primary school was in street soccer.  Ellis, her sisters and cousins attended Dryden Street Primary in Cape Town’s Salt River in the 1970s, and when school and homework at Auntie Susan Ellis was over, they rushed […]

Women, life, freedom and the left

Read More Four events centring on women have made headlines over the past month: Giorgia Meloni’s electoral victory in Italy, Queen Elizabeth II’s death and funeral, the release of the film The Woman King, and the widespread protests in Iran after the killing of Mahsa Amini by the country’s morality police. Taken together, these four […]

ANC’s most powerful women conclude on backing Sisulu ahead of NDZ during weekend meeting, say insiders

Read More Lindiwe Sisulu A meeting of the ANC’s most powerful women has resolved to support Lindiwe Sisulu for a position in the party’s presidency ahead of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. While Sisulu will probably not receive an endorsement from the task team running the troubled ANC Women’s league, the backing of influential female players could […]

Can Lesufi turn crumbling, stumbling Gauteng around?

Read More Panyaza Lesufi. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G) David Makhura has just vacated the position of premier of Gauteng, making way for Panyaza Lesufi. Re-elected premier in 2019, Makhura still had almost two years left in his tenure. An incomplete second tenure makes Makhura’s departure appear premature. It suggests that he was pushed, which points to […]

Russia-Ukraine war live news: at least 17 killed in attack on housing in Zaporizhzhia

Read More From 2h ago Shelling in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has killed at least 17 people, city official Anatoliy Kurtev has said. Anton Gerashchenko, a senior presidential adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said preliminary figures suggested 17 dead and 40 wounded after an attack on residential housing. “The Russians are not able to […]

Kwasi Kwarteng’s champagne reception may have broken ministerial code

Read More The head of the civil service is facing calls to order an investigation into whether Kwasi Kwarteng breached the ministerial code when he attended a champagne reception with hedge fund managers after his mini-budget. The chancellor has conceded that “with hindsight it probably wasn’t the best day to go” to the gathering following […]

F1, Verstappen campione del mondo in Giappone se…: tutte le combinazioni

Read More Max Verstappen si gioca domani a Suzuka la sua seconda chance per vincere aritmeticamente il suo secondo Mondiale di Formula Uno. L’olandese della Red Bull arriva al Gp del Giappone, dove scatterà dalla pole, con 104 punti di vantaggio su Charles Leclerc e 106 su Sergio Perez. Queste le combinazioni che permetterebbero a […]

Poorest families would lose ?400 a year under Liz Truss benefits plan

Read More Low-income households will be almost ?400 a year worse off under No 10’s plans to increase benefits at a lower rate than inflation, new analysis for the Observer has revealed. Liz Truss and her government are considering uprating welfare in line with earnings rather than inflation. It would mean increasing them by 5.5% […]

Longtime Democrat ‘embarrassed’ by Oregon politics shakes up race for governor, runs as independent

Post Content PORTLAND, Ore. – Betsy Johnson is not running for Miss Congeniality. The longtime Democrat now running for governor of Oregon as an unaffiliated candidate is more likely to drop a swear word than a political platitude. When voters asked if she would repeal Oregon’s drug decriminalization law, she responded, “Hell yes.” On education, […]

F1, Verstappen può vincere il mondiale: il Gp del Giappone in diretta

Read More La gara dovrebbe ripartire tra 15 minuti. Ci sarà più di un giro dietro la safety car Gasly furioso. Il pilota francese ha superato una gru, che era già in pista pochi istanti prima dell’uscita della bandiera rossa. Nel 2014 a Suzuka Jules Bianchi si schiantò contro un mezzo pesante che era in […]