Giorno: 21 Luglio 2023

This is Jo’burg Season 1 Episode 9

Read More Two important South African radio stations had their roots firmly in Johannesburg soil, while trying to subvert the airwaves. The banned ANC understood that to overthrow the powerful apartheid state, they needed more than blow up pylons and post offices. Their guerrilla station, Radio Freedom’s first ever broadcast was done one night in […]

SA film industry a ‘huge’ opportunity to grow the economy

Read More South Africa has enormous potential to boost its economy by growing the local film industry and attracting international filmmakers Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape are making strides in developing the local industry to attract more international filmmakers This article is for registered members and subscribers.Please register your free account […]

Biden admin urges Supreme Court to reinstate major gas pipeline in West Virginia

The Biden administration filed a brief late Friday, asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling and reinstate the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) which would transport natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia. In the brief, filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Department of the Interior, the federal […]

Biden’s DOJ to Sue Texas Over Rio Grande Buoy Barrier

The Biden administration has notified Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that it plans to sue the state because it placed a 1,000-foot-long barrier of buoys in the Rio Grande River to stem the flow of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Russia ‘holding humanity hostage’ over Black Sea grain deal, UN hears

Read More Russia has been accused at the UN security council of stoking famine by blocking grain exports through the Black Sea, with the aim of profiting from higher global food prices. Russia’s representative said on Friday that Moscow might consider restarting the scheme if it was given better terms for its own food and […]

Josephine Chaplin, actor and daughter of Charlie Chaplin, dies aged 74

Read More Josephine Chaplin, the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife, Oona O’Neill, died on 13 July in Paris, her family said on Friday. The actor, who starred in films including Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Canterbury Tales, was 74. Josephine Chaplin was the sixth of 11 children fathered by the comedic screen legend […]

UK stars hold London rally in support of striking US actors

Read More Brian Cox, Imelda Staunton, Naomie Harris and Simon Pegg were among the British A-list actors leading a demonstration in Leicester Square on Friday in solidarity with the US strikes disrupting the film and television industries. The actor representing their union, Equity, gathered in the shadow of large cinema billboards advertising the Barbie and […]

Experts recover messages from Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone

Read More Boris Johnson has vowed to pass his pandemic WhatsApp messages over to the Covid inquiry after experts managed to recover them from an old phone he had been advised not to use for security reasons. All “relevant” material will be passed to the inquiry in unredacted form as soon as possible, the former […]

Tory election victory hopes hit by shattering byelection defeats

Read More Rishi Sunak’s chances of guiding the Conservatives to victory at the next general election looked increasingly slim on Friday after his party suffered two shattering byelection defeats. Labour gained its second biggest swing from the Tories since 1945, overturning a 20,000-vote Tory majority in Selby and Ainsty, with the Liberal Democrats also toppling […]