Threads: new Twitter rival looks like a shrewd move but Meta lacks credibility: Ascannio / Shutterstock Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media platform, Threads, has been released in smartphone app stores (although not in the EU). Zuckerberg, who is chief executive of Threads’ parent company Meta, says that at least 30 million users signed up in …
The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare’s Globe production lacks warmth: The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome. Leontes, king of Sicilia, suspects his friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia, of adultery and catastrophe ensues. In keeping with the 16th-century …
South Africa’s efforts to tackle its energy crisis lacks urgency and coherence: South Africa's energy sector is being guided by an outdated Integrated Resource Plan. Charles HB Mercer via shutterstock South Africa’s electricity infrastructure has been degrading in the past decade, with both scheduled and unscheduled power outages on the increase. Despite slowed economic activity …
South Africa in the news: ‘Partisan or simplistic’: South Africa’s media coverage of Israeli occupation ‘lacks nuance’: With a long, shared history of settler colonialism and apartheid, South Africa’s past has affected the way its media covers Israel’s occupation …: “South Africa” – BingNews Sudan signs nine concession deals for gold, copper mining -agency: Sudan …
South Africa sets aside more money for COVID-19 but lacks a spending strategy: In the short term, South Africa has enough beds Getty Images The supplementary budget tabled last week by South Africa’s finance minister, Tito Mboweni, whose primary objective was to make more money available for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, sheds no …
South Africa: Ramaphosa administration lacks a long-term perspective: South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa needs to formulate a long term strategy for economic growth with an eye on the 2019 elections. GCIS South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address and the budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba – who was removed …
Africa has an air pollution problem but lacks the data to tackle it: A man burns rubbish on the side of a road in Dandora in Nairobi, Kenya Reuters/Siegfried Modola The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched BreatheLife, a campaign to make people more aware about the fact that air pollution – which it calls …