Giorno: 1 Giugno 2023

After seven years of ‘curtailment measures’, Mbombela’s R160m overtime bill is increasing

Read More Cooperative governance and traditional affairs MEC Mandla Msibi The municipality has failed to implement nearly 500 council decisions since 2016 This article is only available to subscribers. View subscription options If you are already a subscriber, login here.

South Africa to discuss handing over the hosting of Brics summit

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa stands next to leaders of other Brics nations including Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images) Government insiders say South Africa is debating whether China or Mozambique should host the summit This article is only available to subscribers. View subscription options If you are already a subscriber, login […]

African solutions needed to help identify SA’s unknown dead

Read More Photo by Armin Weigel/picture alliance via Getty Images The number of unidentified individuals admitted to South Africa’s medico-legal laboratories may be as high as 10 000 per year. Professionals in the field put this number conservatively at around 7 000. Studies based on data from the country’s busiest medico-legal facilities in Cape Town […]

Ramaphosa pleads for optimism, even about load-shedding

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa at the fifth edition of the South African Investment Conference. Photo: Supplied President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday said South Africans should summon optimism that the country’s problems, including load-shedding, can be overcome because a positive attitude allowed for better perspective. In reply to the debate on the presidency’s budget vote, […]

Namibian Fishrot saga paymaster arrested in Paarl

Read More Marén de Klerk is wanted by the Namibian government for corruption, fraud, theft and money laundering. Marén de Klerk, the self-confessed paymaster in Namibia’s ongoing multimillion “Fishrot” corruption case, was arrested by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI, known as the Hawks) and the South African Police Services (SAPS) in Paarl on […]

Government to launch legal action in attempt to retain Johnson WhatsApps

Read More Ministers are to launch legal action against the official Covid public inquiry in a last-ditch attempt to avoid handing over Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApps. The unprecedented move was confirmed in a letter from the Cabinet Office to the inquiry, headed by the retired judge Heather Hallett, who had given ministers a deadline of […]

My husband was killed for exposing the Amazon’s plunder. But his work lives on | Alessandra Sampaio

Read More It’s been a year since my life changed dramatically with a phone call from a journalist friend telling me Dom had gone missing in the Javari valley. I could tell from the worry in his voice that it was unlikely Dom was still alive. Dom and I both knew his research into criminal […]

One year after the deaths of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, their work must go on

Read More Forest defenders should not be killed for exposing crimes. Journalists should not be killed for reporting facts. But, one year ago, the Guardian was devastated by the awful news that in the Amazon rainforest, two lives had been taken on the frontline of the battle to protect the planet. Bruno Ara?jo Pereira, a […]

Bruno Pereira and Dom Phllips were killed in the Amazon. Their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the work

Read More Three assassins walked into a bar deep in the Brazilian Amazon one night last October. Beers flowed, tongues loosened and the men were overheard bragging about their latest job. “We’re looking for this Orlando bloke. We’ve come to kill him,” one of the inebriated hitmen is said to have declared, according to a […]

Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns

Read More The rapid advance of organised crime groups in the Brazilian Amazon risks turning the region into a vast, conflict-stricken hinterland plagued by heavily armed “criminal insurgents”, a former senior federal police chief has warned. Alexandre Saraiva, who worked in the Amazon from 2011 to 2021, said he feared the growing footprint of drug-trafficking […]