Giorno: 21 Giugno 2023

Queensland Opens Needle-Free Vaccine Skin Patches Factory

Read More Australia has opened the doors to a vaccine skin patch manufacturing facility in hopes to reduce the complexities and costs associated with existing vaccines and be better position the country for future pandemics. Situated in Brisbane’s riverside suburb of Hamilton, biotechnology company Vaxxas expects to manufacture and distribute the first commercially available vaccine […]

Teacher’s Registration Cancelled for Refusing to Call Student by Preferred Pronouns

Read More A New Zealand high school maths teacher has had his teaching license cancelled for refusing to call his Year 10 student by her preferred name and pronouns. The New Zealand teaching council’s Complaints Assessment Committee charged the teacher with serious misconduct for not calling the student by a male name and he/him pronouns, […]

Sympathise with the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee

Read More The Reserve Bank has a blunt instrument with which it is trying to put out fires that it didn’t start and are sustained by villains elsewhere Spare a thought for the monetary policy committee (MPC) members who manage monetary policy for South Africa.  The Reserve Bank is, thankfully, fully independent of the state. […]

SA always faced being axed from US trade deal

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during a meeting of African leaders with Russian President at the Konstantin Palace in Strelna on June 17, 2023 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images) For all the noise and bluster over South Africa’s possible expulsion from the United States’ “hallowed” African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) […]

Dell Technologies launches full APEX suite in South Africa

Read More Doug Woolley, General Manager, Dell Technologies South Africa. New Storage as-a-Service offer simplifies IT experience, allowing organisations to focus on outcomes and respond quickly to changing business needs Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) has announced that Dell APEX Data Storage Services is now available in South Africa. Dell’s APEX as-a-Service hyperconverged, storage and data protection […]

South Africa reaches agreement to launch $1 billion green hydrogen fund

Read More Coming clean: In a bid to lower its carbon footprint, Anglo American this year is using the world’s biggest green-hydrogen powered nuGen truck at the Mogalakwena mine in Limpopo, owned by Anglo American subsidiary Anglo American Platinum. South Africa has reached an agreement to launch a $1 billion blended finance fund to help […]

Keir Starmer ‘eyes dozens of new peers to aid Labour government’

Read More Labour is reportedly devising plans to appoint dozens of peers to the House of Lords to prevent a Keir Starmer government being stymied by the upper chamber. There are 174 Labour peers, making up 22% of the Lords, compared with 263 Conservatives and 183 unaligned crossbench peers. Labour sources told the Times the […]

UK’s best known retailers top list of firms fined ?7m over pay breaches

Read More Some of the UK’s best known retailers including WH Smith, Marks & Spencer, Argos and LloydsPharmacy are at the head of a list of more than 200 companies collectively fined ?7m for failing to pay the legal minimum wage. The businesses were also forced to pay out ?4.9m to about 63,000 workers left […]