Giorno: 25 Giugno 2023

June 24 National Arts Festival diary: ‘This place hurts’

Read More Internationally renowned actor Chuma Sopotela on stage with Indalo Stofile during the performance of Ibuhlungu le Ndawo. Photo by Mark Wessels “The script is about the value of insisting on loving a place, a country that very clearly doesn’t love you, and the possibility of extricating yourself and deciding not to love it […]

Wagner’s threatened mutiny exposed Putin’s weakness

Read More Head of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin left the Southern Military District headquarters on June 24, 2023 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin overplayed his hand by directly challenging the Kremlin and taking control of Rostov-On-Don. Moscow has in the past funded and equipped […]

Buying an electric vehicle 101

Read More Range anxiety: The BMW iX xDrive 50 can travel up to 630km on a single charge. Photo: Lerato Matebese You probably know by now that the automotive world is going electric as manufacturers push towards a common goal — zero emissions. Electric vehicles (EVs) have a huge role to play, and over the […]

Father in UK charged with rape made party to child’s care proceedings

Read More A father without parental responsibility who has been charged with two counts of rape – and amid an allegation his son was conceived of rape – has won an appeal to be made party to care proceedings concerning the boy. The man, who is also the paternal uncle of the child’s mother, brought […]

UK billpayers may pick up tab for green levies as energy price cap ends

Read More Consumers are in line to pay an extra ?170 in green levies as the government’s energy price cap comes to an end for most billpayers. John Glen, the chief secretary to the Treasury, said on Sunday that ministers were considering what to do about the levies, which the government has paid since last […]

Fatboy Slim backs appeal to allow onsite festival drug testing

Read More Fatboy Slim and a cross-party group of MPs have condemned the Home Office’s decision to block onsite drug testing at festivals this summer as “shortsighted and dangerous”. In a letter to Suella Braverman, the DJ, alongside musicians Billy Bragg and Olugbenga Adelekan of Metronomy has called for the government to allow the resumption […]

UK government willing to ignore public sector pay review bodies, minister says

Read More The government is prepared to block the pay rises that public sector review bodies recommend, a senior minister has confirmed, as unions threaten to strike over the issue. The chief secretary to the Treasury, John Glen, said on Sunday that ministers might overrule the review bodies. The Times reported on Saturday that ministers […]