Giorno: 26 Gennaio 2023

What’s behind the Big Tobacco job cuts? A guide to SA’s illegal trade after Covid

Read More British American Tobacco South Africa (Batsa) is using a misleading figure to explain why 200 workers could be retrenched in 2023, according to public health researchers. In a 13 January statement, the company said its business had been crippled by the illegal tobacco trade, which it estimates makes up 70% of the country’s […]

Gun rights groups speak out as Washington state Dems eye ban on semi-automatic rifles

Post Content Gun rights groups are speaking out against a bill being pushed by Washington state Democrats that would prohibit the sale and possession of many semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns in the state. House Bill 1240, which was introduced in the state legislature earlier this month at the request of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee […]

Haiti: Petition pushes for constitutional amendments before elections

Read More Haitian politician Werley Nortreus, leader and founder of the political party and movement Jeunes Dirigeants Haïtiens Progressistes, is the first politician in Haiti to have created a petition on the internet to push for a new constitution.  He wants it to be amended so that candidates who are 25 years and older have […]

Decolonise the South African mind, decolonise the post-apartheid media

Read More The video on social media of white men trying to throttle and drown black boys in a pool at the Maselspoort resort in the Free State on Christmas Day is an indication that the apartheid past of racial hate and internalised superiority complexes continues today.  President Cyril Ramaphosa condemned the ordeal of the […]

Ousmane Sembène 100 years later

Read More January marks the centenary of the birth of Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese activist, filmmaker and writer called the “father of African film” by many in the film industry.  Through multiple novels and internationally acclaimed films, Sembène’s cinema depicts the cultural spirit of art from Africa and its diaspora in the 1960s. He was […]

Stage-Two Cyril Ramaphosa vs John Steenhuisen the Tourguide

Read More Wednesday. I’m strangely relieved — almost happy — to hear that two years of regularised stage two power cuts appear to lie ahead. The idea that there is, finally, a plan to try and keep the lights on in the long term, even if it means less electricity daily, in a controlled way, […]

NHS pay dispute could cause serious long-term harm, says health boss

Read More The NHS faces “serious and significant” long-term damage unless the increasingly bitter pay battle between staff and ministers is resolved soon, a senior health service boss has said. The growing wave of strikes will hamper the NHS’s efforts to tackle the growing chaos in A&E and the 7.2 million-strong backlog of people needing […]

England’s coast faces ‘multiple threats’ of dredging, sewage and pollution

Read More Dredging is likely to increase around the English coast, while pollution and sewage are piling pressure on coastal eco-systems, and an increasing number of people are at risk of coastal flooding, the Environment Agency has warned. Three quarters of shellfish waters around England failed to meet “aspirational” standards for environmental protection in 2021, […]

Biden’s FCC nominee sits on board of group that opposes anti-sex trafficking efforts

Post Content President Biden’s nominee to sit on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) currently sits on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a group that has vehemently opposed bipartisan legislation designed to protect sex trafficking victims. Gigi Sohn — who Biden nominated this month for a vacant FCC seat previously held by Ajit […]