Giorno: 21 Ottobre 2022

Italy’s incoming PM Meloni issues warning to Berlusconi following glowing remarks toward Putin

Italy’s presumed next prime minister sent a warning to Italian politician and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after warm comments he made directed toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Italy will never be the weak link of the West with us in government,” Giorgia Meloni said in a statement directed toward her potential conservative coalition ally, […]

Tennis, Simona Halep sospesa per doping

Read More L’ex numero 1 Simona Halep è stata provvisoriamente sospesa dall’antidoping dopo aver fallito un test durante gli US Open dello scorso mese. Halep, 31enne rumena, due volte invitrice di uno Slam, è stata numero uno del mondo ed è attualmente in nona posizione delle classifiche. Nello slam statunitese, affrontato da settima testa di […]

Covid Italia, il bollettino del 21 ottobre 2022: 36.116 nuovi casi e 91 morti

Read More Nelle ultime 24 ore in Italia sono stati registrati 36.116 nuovi casi e 91 morti. Diminuiscono i ricoveri in terapia intensiva (-8) ma crescono quelli in area medica (+51). Con 213.088 tamponi eseguiti il tasso di positività scende al 16,9%. Tutti i grafici e le mappe sull’epidemia Iss, cala incidenza a 448 da 504. Rt […]

Stitching together femininity, history and community

Read More There’s a profound sense of mysticism that overcomes you upon entering the Eastern Cape. With the calm, rustic landscape that merges with the vast open skies, its richness of wildlife, and the numerous and unexpected pockets of historically and culturally significant communities and establishments, its charm is both alluring and haunting.  Some of […]

Purple reign: It’s jacaranda season, baby!

Read More Mid-October marks the start of a very special season in Joburg and Pretoria, one that sees a profusion of purple along city streets. Jacaranda mimosifolia drape the lanes, roads and avenues of Gauteng in a colour spectacle that has become synonymous with spring on the Highveld. Quite a thing, when one considers that […]

Customers affected by DStv app upgrade can access streaming service through Streama

Read More MultiChoice says customers who were shut out by an update to its DStv streaming app can resolve this by redeeming 100% vouchers via its rewards programme to purchase its Streama Box from online retailer Takealot. MyBroadband reported that MultiChoice had cut some Samsung and Hisense TV owners off from accessing its streaming service […]

Gauteng water shortages: A perfect storm ‘turning into a hurricane’

Read More One expert says the outages are a wake-up call for how water is managed in the country’s economic hub. (Delwyn Verasamy) The water shortages that have affected thousands of people in Gauteng are a “perfect storm” that is “developing into a hurricane”, said water expert Anja du Plessis. Taps have run dry in […]

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa partners with Gucci to put on its first annual fundraising gala

Read More Arguably the most anticipated fashion event of the year, the Met Gala, took place in New York in May with the theme America: An Anthology of Fashion. Founded in 1948 by American fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert, the gala was created as a fundraising event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in […]

Tories on their knees – and here comes Boris Johnson. Dear reader, look away | Marina Hyde

Read More If you feel physically breathless at the current state of British politics, that’s just Boris Johnson immediately sucking all of the oxygen out of the room again. Is the dignity vampire coming back? Unclear. But I know we’re all big fans of lettuces now, so be advised there could be a monstrous 16-stone […]

Penny Mordaunt to stand for Conservative leadership

Read More The leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, has become the first person to announce her candidacy for the Conservative party leadership – her second such bid this year. Mordaunt, a former defence secretary, was ousted from the year’s first Tory leadership contest in the fifth round, losing out to Rishi Sunak […]