Giorno: 22 Giugno 2023

Basotho lose out over new dam that will supply SA with more water

Read More Flooded: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project has Katse Dam (above) and Mohale Dam, with a third, Polihali Dam, under construction. (Walter Dhladlhla/Getty Images) A large dam that will transfer water from Lesotho to South Africa is being built near Polihali, 291km outside the capital, Maseru, but locals say they are paying a heavy […]

South Africa considers taking action against Polish embassy

Read More Minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni suggested the government could demarche the Polish ambassador for diplomatic offence. (Jairus Mmutle/GCIS) The South African government is looking at possible action it could take against the Polish embassy after a charter flight ferrying President Cyril Ramaphosa’s protection unit was grounded at Warsaw Chopin Airport. Minister in […]

Eskom has its eye on COP billions

Read More Purse strings: Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Eskom has approached the treasury to hasten the process for it to access funding that was donated to South Africa by wealthy countries at COP26.  At the climate change conference in Glasgow in 2021, a group of international partners pledged $8.5 […]

Zondo: Parliament still doesn’t have the ability to stop state capture

Read More Chief Justice Raymond Zondo Should renewed attempts be made at state capture, parliament would still not be able to stop it, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said on Thursday, a year after he handed over the final sections of his gargantuan report — a petabyte of data — on the wholesale looting of state-owned […]

23 June 2023

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Tech firms to be forced to hand over data to inquests into child deaths

Read More Ofcom will be able to force tech platforms to hand over the personal data of children whose deaths are suspected to be related to online harm, the government has confirmed. On the last day of the online safety bill’s passage through parliament, the government accepted an amendment backed by a group of bereaved […]

Windrush payouts remain elusive after four years of scheme

Read More Lawyers and charity workers helping people trying toclaim Windrush compensation have expressed dismay that claimants are still struggling to secure settlements that reflect the damaging consequences of being misclassified as illegal immigrants. Statistics released this week show that only one in four of the 6,348 applications submitted have received payments. A total of […]

Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds

Read More Ecological collapse is likely to start sooner than previously believed, according to a new study that models how tipping points can amplify and accelerate one another. Based on these findings, the authors warn that more than a fifth of ecosystems worldwide, including the Amazon rainforest, are at risk of a catastrophic breakdown within […]

House GOP seeking to expunge ‘sham’ Trump impeachments

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are seeking to formally expunge the impeachments of former President Donald Trump, Fox News Digital has learned. House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., introduced resolutions Thursday to expunge Trump’s first impeachment from December 2019 and his second from January 2021. Those resolutions would […]