Incredibile Sofia Goggia: vince la discesa di St. Moritz con la mano rotta
Read More Sofia dei miracoli. Ha deciso di partecipare, ha vinto. Con una mano sinistra rotta, il tutore, il bastoncino assicurato al guanto con il nastro adesivo. Con un viaggio St. Moritz-Milano-Clinica la Madonnina-St.Moritz alle spalle il giorno prima, quando col grido “Mi sono rotta la mano” aveva spaventato il mondo dello sci italiano. Tornando […]
Climate justice is a matter of survival for Small Island Developing States
Read More At COP27 there were a multitude of competing interests and voices that sought the world’s attention. But one thing that became clear was the chorus of small and often vulnerable states demanding justice now and at scale to address their concerns and the difficulties they face. Despite the progress made in the 30 […]
The ANC has lost its moorings
Read More The Ghosts of ANC Conferences past wafted eerily through the sweaty corridors of Nasrec, Johannesburg, during the course of day one of the 55th edition of the ruling party’s five-yearly gathering of the clan. There was chaos, confusion and contestation on the credentials and registration front that pock-marked day one of Nasrec 1.0 […]
Scrap sugar tax, say canegrowers
Read More The South African Canegrowers Association has again asked the treasury to scrap the sugar tax — or at least suspend the tax increase. This comes after the largest sugar producer in the country, Tongaat Hulett, went into voluntary business rescue in October because it could not pay back its lenders. With Tongaat in […]
Enjoy some Mamasamba jungle fever
Read More There’s something exciting about the opening of a new restaurant, especially when it’s in Rosebank, a lively multicultural area that’s slowly becoming home to some of the most popular eateries in Johannesburg. Mamasamba, a Latin American-inspired eatery, which opened this month, adds a bit of jungle fever to a dining experience. Its unique […]
Godongwana: Economic policy driven by the party, not the president
Read More Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has assured that there will be continuity in the ANC’s economic policy, regardless of who is elected to lead the party at its 55th elective conference. Godongwana was speaking at a business breakfast hosted by the Progressive Business Forum on the second day of the ANC’s conference at Nasrec, […]
Will Republicans support Biden’s strategy on the Ukraine war?
Read More With a single vote lead for Democrats in the Senate and the House effectively in the grip of Republicans with a seven-seat lead, President Joe Biden, it seems, will be stuck in a serious dilemma for the remaining two years of his stint at the White House. Not only his ambitious legislative agenda […]
NPA applauded for tougher stance on rhino poachers
Read More Wildlife officials have hailed the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) recent decision to appeal what it called the lenient sentences handed to two rhino poachers in May, as well as the jailing this week of one of the men in a separate case. On Monday, a Bronkhorstspruit magistrate sentenced Gideon van Deventer to eight […]
The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond: the power of collaboration
Read More “Finding the Higgs boson at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was all about the power of long-term research and collaboration in large science projects between large numbers of top physicists from many countries,” says Peter Jenni. He’s an experimental physicist at Cern (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland and the University […]
Ramaphosa could sink his own ship
Read More The ANC’s elective conference has been thought to be President Cyril Ramaphosa’s to lose. Unlike his opponent, Zweli Mkhize, the ANC president had the advantage of being the incumbent and, for a long time, the man without a single cloud hovering over his head until February when Arthur Fraser fired an almost lethal […]
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