Deliberate power cuts are not normal, South African Movement leader Mmusi Maimane said, taking on President Cyril Ramaphosa. Maimane said this as the country is experiencing its most difficult week of load shedding since the start of 2023. Maimane shared…
The doctrine of legal privilege, that is, protecting communications between lawyers and clients when made for the purpose of obtaining legal advice or in the context of litigation, has been sacrosanct for hundreds of years in many jurisdictions, including South…
The cost of living in South Africa is simply unbearable. In the new year, my new vibe, I decided to head down to the car dealership to get me a new SUV… Safe to say, a sad dream on the…
ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula has vowed to crack the whip as head of the party’s headquarters and accounting officer. If they act according to their words, the mediocrity that has characterized the ruling party since Polokwane will end. Lawlessness…
German police continued Wednesday to clear an anti-coal activist camp in an abandoned city that has become a symbol of the country’s struggle to transition away from fossil fuels amid an energy crisis. After numbering up to 2,000, around 200…
The world’s oceans, which have absorbed most of the heat caused by human-caused carbon pollution, continued to experience record temperatures last year, according to research published Wednesday. Climate change is increasing surface temperatures across the planet, causing instability in the…
The UN rights chief warned Wednesday that new US border enforcement plans risk undermining the fundamental foundations of international human rights and refugee law. “The right to seek asylum is a basic human right, regardless of a person’s origin, immigration…
The French government on Wednesday played down the possibility of mass strikes and protests over pension reforms that are due to start next week. All of France’s main trade unions have called for stoppages and mass meetings next Thursday to…
The cost of living crisis is the biggest global risk in the next two years, the World Economic Forum warned Wednesday in a survey ahead of the annual Davos meeting of global elites. The WEF report describes the cost of…
Uganda on Wednesday declared an end to an outbreak of the Ebola virus that emerged nearly four months ago and killed 55 people. “We have successfully controlled the Ebola outbreak in Uganda,” Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said at a…