8 of the 10 initiates that died in Eastern Cape were at illegal initiation schools. These deaths highlight the urgent need for stricter regulations & oversight. #healthnews health-e.org.za/2024/07/10/ini…

Just heard from Fadi that I was the first journalist in Paris to interview him. That staggers me and it says so goddam much. He has a story unlike any athlete in Paris and yet remains deliberately unheard. Makes me want to holler.

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If only all visa applications can be as easy and seamless as the #Ethiopia e-visa process. Just 12 minutes between submission and approval!

"I spent an exhausting six hours at Helen Joseph Hospital — dealing with rude staff, broken facilities, and an elderly patient collapsing because of long wait." Read more of our reporter Yoliswa Sobuwa's experience at the hospital. health-e.org.za/2024/09/12/opi… #NHI #PublicHealth

I was born when there was no Hizbullah, Hamas or even PLO. Yet, I grew up in Lebanon suffering regular Israeli murders, invasions, bombings, kidnappings, all over the country. You can only believe that this is really about Hamas or Hizbullah if you know nothing about our history.

The “rules-based order” boils down to this: The states of the imperial core can use unlimited violence to secure access to the lands, resources and labour of the global South, including gross violations of international law, and with total impunity. But any use of violence in

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Well done African Investigative Journalism Conference Dinesh Balliah Beauregard Tromp on inviting Naledi Pandor as keynote speaker. Other journ events silence the topic of Gaza, thank you for placing it on the programme agenda 👏

The digital nomads have arrived. They come with offers of R40 000 for a 3 bedroom house. Cape Town’s residents working normal middle class jobs and paying school fees have no ability to match this. They will be pushed out of the city. The housing crisis deepens.

Racism is not a strong enough word for this garbage. Openly saying there should be one rule for white people and another for the rest of the world is apartheid, pure and simple. We've had 500 years of this colonial ideology and it must be destroyed.

I wrote my own eulogy because I feel death approaching me now😥. In the heart of Gaza’s war that devours souls and steals dreams, I mourn myself as if I see my end looming on the horizon. Yet, I hope my words will remain alive, bearing witness to the fact that I loved life with

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On this very spot, nearly 50 years ago—perhaps in 1975—I sat with my mother under the shade of a fig tree at the entrance of this house. I was only four years old. Suddenly, helicopters roared through the sky, and my mother, her voice trembling with fear, said, “Dyab, we need to

You know, even if Iran wasn’t beautiful and historic and its people not so educated and cultured, it still does not deserve to be bombed. Stop measuring the worth of human beings and their homelands with western moral reasoning. This too is a symptom of internalised colonialism.