Giorno: 24 Marzo 2023

US Aims to Allocate Over $7 Billion in Aid for Pacific Islands to Counter China

Read More The Biden administration aims to allocate $7.1 billion in funding for three Pacific Island nations with which the United States has economic and defense ties, a U.S. official said on March 23, in a move to counter Beijing’s influence in the region. State Department official Jane Bocklage told a congressional hearing that President […]

Celeb crossovers: So last year?

Read More Beyoncé’s Ivy Park collection. Photo: Supplied There are dozens of high-profile lifestyle collaborations where celebrities meet big brands to sound the call to impressionable consumers. But what does it mean for the collaboration business model when these celebrity collections start to slump, both in sales and in the eye of the consumer? Luxury […]

Restless Prejudice: Is higher education a right or privilege?

Read More Students protest for free education in Cape Town. (Photo by Shaun Swingler/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) There are about 503 institutions of higher education in South Africa. Of this number, 26 are universities. Since 1994, universities have experienced an increase in enrolments. Many factors, such as societal pressure, the dawn of democracy and access institutions […]

Risk of water crisis looms – UN

Read More Scarce: People fill up water containers for home use from a well near Sudan’s most populous city, Omdurman, on 21 March, a day before Unesco’s World Water Day, to focus attention on clean water and the sustainable use of water resources. Photo: Ashraf Shazly/Getty Images Water is too precious in South Africa to […]

Tottenham Hotspurs R1 billion tourism deal ‘invalid and unlawful’

Read More LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 06: General view inside the stadium during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Everton FC at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on July 06, 2020 in London, England. Football Stadiums around Europe remain empty due to the Coronavirus Pandemic as Government social distancing laws prohibit fans inside venues resulting […]

Grief peels back the love that envelopes South Africa

Read More Nontobeko Hlela with her family. On Saturday I laid my beautiful 12-year-old daughter to rest. There are few harder things that a person can face than to have to watch their child slowly slip away. Mbali was first diagnosed with leukaemia in 2016, at the age of six. She went through the arduous […]

Met police Safer Schools officer jailed over child sexual abuse

Read More A Metropolitan police Safer Schools officer has been jailed for five years over a string of child sexual abuse offences. PC Hussain Chehab was sentenced at Wood Green crown court on Friday after admitting four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 and offences linked to indecent images of […]

UK planning to launch watered down net zero strategy in oil capital Aberdeen

Read More The government is planning to launch its revamped net zero strategy from the UK’s oil and gas capital, Aberdeen, in a clear signal of its intention to boost the fossil fuel industry while cutting key green measures, the Guardian has learned. Next week’s launch was originally called “green day” in Whitehall, but has […]

‘Executive guy’ DeSantis doesn’t want to be Trump 2024 running mate

Read More Ron DeSantis, the rightwing Florida governor and rising Republican star, has said he would not accept an offer to be Donald Trump’s running mate because he is “probably more of an executive guy”. “I think that you want to be able to do things,” the Florida governor told the hard-right Newsmax channel. DeSantis […]

Rishi Sunak could face major rebellion by his MPs over illegal migration bill

Read More Rishi Sunak is braced for what could be the biggest rebellion of this parliament over his illegal migration bill, with many Conservative MPs calling for it to be “toughened up”. At least 60 Tories are expected to back an amendment that will block judges from granting injunctions to stop migrants being deported, which […]