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Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been increasing in South Africa in recent weeks. This has been largely driven by two offspring – known as the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages – of the Omicron variant first identified in South Africa late last year.
The country has, in recent days, been outraged at the sight of a white student at the University of Stellenbosch degrading and humiliating a fellow black student in a despicable act.
Inflation is a process of sustained increases in the general price level over a period of time, typically 12 months. Inflation can be calculated for a country, for specific regions in a country and for different income and demographic groups, for instance, pensioners. These different calculations are important because the spendin...
I think of course apart from the years giving me opportunities to grow and learn a lot from my mistakes. the years giving me experiences I could only experience by being part of the game and being part of football. Whether be it training sessions or through games. It has made me understand not just the value of results, but also the va...
Ramahlwe Mphahlele scored the only goal of the match to ensure that Kaizer Chiefs takes all 3 points against Sekhukhune United and continue their push to finish second and qualify for the CAF Champions League.
Orlando Pirates to contest the CAF Confederations Cup Final. 1995 African Champions, Orlando Pirates booked their place in the CAF Confederations final despite losing the home leg of their tie 0-1 to a determined Al Ahli Tripoli and adv...
It has been just over a month since heavy flooding wreaked havoc across parts of KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and the North West, causing extensive loss of life and damage to property and infrastructure. Yesterday, I visited eThekw...
The four reports of the Zondo Commission are now finally in the public domain. Officially known as The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector, Including Organs of State...
The plausible truth is that modern technology, especially cellphones, tablets and computers has made our lives seemingly easier and more convenient. The effects of technology have had a great impact on humankind since early inventions an...
Sexual attractiveness is a preoccupation that clings to us throughout our daily lives. Today’s social media obsession with perfect beauty makes being attractive and feeling attractive seem all the more important. Being attractive feels c...
Employees who are suffering from mental illness at work are increasingly being recognised as those who need more understanding, empathy and support. Two-thirds of the population will have mental health difficulties at some point in their...
Dum Dum! That might be the sound of doom as the largest streaming service is seeing red and making plans to survive by asking a bit more from their consumers.
The New York Times chose the worst timing to attack incoming Twitter CEO Elon Musk, and his mom showed them why we’re celebrating Mothers’ Day this weekend.
Most foods consumed across the world like maize, wheat, rice and potato contain carbohydrates (starch) as the main food macro-molecule. Starch is a good source of energy for humans. But eaten in excess it poses a grave health risk: it is...
To celebrate this year's heritage month we give you a nice recipe of mogodu and rich creamy samp. Cooking with Metjie MALA MOGODU(TRIPE)RECIPE Ingredients: 1kg tripe (beef) water 1 onion, chopped 2 tablespoons ground black...
Almost three decades into democracy, radio is thriving in South Africa. Radio listenership in the country is consistently higher than the global average. And it in fact increased during the COVID-19 lockdowns of the past two years. T...
It’s been a great year for African writing, with Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah winning the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. South Africa’s Damon Galgut lifted the Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Promise, and exciting prose continued t...
The plausible truth is that modern technology, especially cellphones, tablets and computers has made our lives seemingly easier and more convenient. The effects of technology have had a great impact on humankind since early inventions an...
South Africa reacted with outrage to travel bans, first triggered by the UK, imposed on it in the wake of the news that its genomics surveillance team had detected a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Network for Genomics Surveilla...
I think of course apart from the years giving me opportunities to grow and learn a lot from my mistakes. the years giving me experiences I could only experience by being part of the game and being part of football. Whether be it training...
Ramahlwe Mphahlele scored the only goal of the match to ensure that Kaizer Chiefs takes all 3 points against Sekhukhune United and continue their push to finish second and qualify for the CAF Champions League.
Trade Union movement, COSATU will convene its three-day central executive committee meeting from Monday to Wednesday to discuss organisational, political and socio-economic issues affecting workers. A media press conference will be held...
Land reform in South Africa is an emotive and politically fraught subject. That’s because land was at the heart of the dispossession of Africans by colonial settlers. Successful land reform can help overcome this legacy, making it centra...
In his latest book sociologist Professor Roger Southall, a prolific researcher who has written extensively about political dynamics in Southern Africa, avoids the “negative and condemnatory” approach generally seen in writing on white So...
Have you ever watched haplessly, helplessly and hopelessly as your dream crumbles into a million pieces? Do you remember the terror that filled your heart as you accidentally broke your mama’s expensive vase? You experienced the depth of...
Confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been increasing in South Africa in recent weeks. This has been largely driven by two offspring – known as the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages – of the Omicron variant first identified in South Africa late la...
The country has, in recent days, been outraged at the sight of a white student at the University of Stellenbosch degrading and humiliating a fellow black student in a despicable act.
I Think That Due To The Pandemic This Answer Has Altered Significantly. Previously It May Have Been A Place Abroad Or A Place With With A Particular Memory But Now It Is Home. Learning To Appreciate The Parts Of My Home I Never Even Both...
Scholars disagree about whether the formerly whites-only neighbourhoods of Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest and most economically important city, have become substantially desegregated since the end of apartheid in 1994. Some argue t...
The COVID pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on Africa’s sovereign debt situation. Currently, 22 countries are either in debt distress or at high risk of debt distress. This means that African governments are struggling to pay...
Fundamental changes are taking place in the world: what are the implications for Africa? A generation ago, newly appointed Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Secretary-General Dr Salim Ahmed Salim posed that question under circumstan...
Monkeypox isn’t a new disease. The first confirmed human case was in 1970, when the virus was isolated from a child suspected of having smallpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Monkeypox is unlikely to cause another pandemic, ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa recently appointed a senior South African politician, Ayanda Dlodlo, to serve a two-year term as a member of the World Bank’s 25-person Board of executive directors. She will represent a constituency consisting ...
Some form of basic income support is central to the South African government’s agenda. The lockdown-induced shocks have added to the crisis of structural mass unemployment and of poverty. There also seems to be broad consensus that basic...
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a financial strain on businesses, households and individuals. It’s leading more older adults to retire early, according to recent research. This means retirees could be making increased claims on social secu...
We are in the business of spreading this powerful truth, so the bigger the audience, the better it is for us. As Africans, there's no better time than NOW, to get up and start taking ownership of our FUTURE.
On your must have this winter is the all time classic wool coat, though the is a variety of winter coats but the advantage about wool coats is that they simply work with any outfit, from office look, to those nights out and you can even...