Giorno: 23 Giugno 2023

New Wave of COVID-19 Infections Hits China

Read More A security personnel in a protective suit keeps watch as medical workers attend to patients at the fever department of Tongji Hospital, a major facility for patients of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on Jan. 1, 2023. (Reuters) COVID-19 has resurged in mainland China with the number of people […]

US Sanctions Burma Defense Ministry, Banks Over Russian Arms Imports

Read More The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned Burma’s Defense Ministry and two regime-controlled banks for their alleged roles in the junta’s weapon purchases from sanctioned entities in Russia. The sanctions targeted the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank and Myanmar Investment and Commercial Bank, which were used by the junta for foreign currency exchanges and […]

The time for African stories is now 

Read More Panelists Ron Derby from the Mail & Guardian, Rethabile Ramaphakela from Burnt Onion, director Vusi Africa Sindane, producer Sihle-isipho Nontshokweni, director of Film in Africa Tendeka Matatu and writer and director Gcobisa Yako. Mail & Guardian and Netflix partner to empower young South African filmmakers There has never been a more promising time […]

Stellenbosch Business School

Read More Director of Stellenbosch Business School Professor Mark Smith says the triple-accredited institution is committed to developing responsible leaders who grasp the role of business in supporting a functioning and sustainable society. In the ever-evolving world of business, aspiring business leaders require an education that is not only globally competitive but also rooted in […]

Cyril flies the peace flag but the Chopin Contingent gets grounded

Read More Straight talk: Cyril Ramaphosa (right) and other African leaders told both sides in Ukraine to end the conflict urgently. Photo: Yan Dobronosov/Getty Thursday. Like the majority of my fellow South Africans, I’m enjoying, albeit with great suspicion, the sudden improvement in the state electricity utility’s ability to provide us with power. It’s been […]

M&G’s 200 Young South Africans warm this old geezer’s heart

Read More 200 Young South Africans receive their recognition at The Focus Rooms in Modderfontein. (@iMoshele/Twitter) This week, the names of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans for 2023 were announced at what our excitable events team likes to describe as a “gala event”. Having been press-ganged into working on the 64-page print […]

When is the right time in your career to do your MBA?

Read More The MBA remains the ultimate degree in the world of business An MBA remains the ultimate degree in the world of business. As far as academic qualifications in management go, this is the pinnacle, and you will need to know you are in the right space to start your academic pursuit. Here we […]

Junior doctors in England to strike for five days from 13 July

Read More Thousands of junior doctors are to go on strike across England for five days in the longest such industrial action in the history of the NHS. The unprecedented action by medics – who can have up to eight years of experience as a hospital doctor or three years in general practice – will […]

‘Highly unusual’: lost 17th-century portrait of black and white women as equals saved for UK

Read More A painting has been saved for the UK in recognition of its “outstanding significance” for the study of race and gender in 17th-century Britain, it will be announced on Friday. The anonymous artist’s portrait of two women – one black and one white, depicted as companions and equals with similar dress, hair and […]

‘True explorers’: tributes paid to men killed in ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan sub

Read More Tributes have been paid to the five people who are now believed to have been instantly killed in a “catastrophic implosion” of the Titan submersible during its dive to the Titanic. On Thursday, after days of aerial and underwater searches, a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship discovered a debris field […]