Thousands of unidentified Zimbabweans lie in secret mass graves – and I want to find them: One of my earliest memories is of violence and death. It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old. I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together. He got …
Diversity’s Ofcom complaints: audiences consume Black culture but don’t want to engage with the realities: Dance troupe Diversity's Black Lives Matter performance has received a lot of complaints. Syco/Thames After a Saturday night performance on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent (BGT), Ofcom received more than 22,000 complaints and counting. This is its second-highest number of complaints about …
What food-insecure children want you to know about hunger: Footballer and food poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford has rebuked Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake on Twitter for suggesting that parents who need help to feed their children are failing in their responsibilities. Children growing up in poverty today recognise it is their parents’ duty to make sure …
South Africa in the news: Want to withdraw retirement funds on emigration? National Treasury and SARS say try again in 3 years: One of the more contentious proposals in the Draft Tax Bill relates to the ability of people emigrating from South Africa to access amounts in their pension preservation fund, provident …: “South Africa” …
Want to make better decisions? Encourage disagreement: Using an inclusive process can lead to better group decisions—ones that empower a group and grant it ownership of the decision. But all open decision making processes should do something else if they’re going to succeed: enable dissent. read more: Opensource.com sim Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: …
Tony Abbott: why Boris Johnson would want Australia’s controversial ex-PM as a trade envoy: The rumour that Tony Abbott, the controversial former prime minister of Australia, is being lined up as a trade envoy for the UK was a summer news story few saw coming. Appearing before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Abbott …
‘I don’t want my friends to know’ – young people on growing up with Crohn’s or colitis: insta_photos/shutterstock Young people with chronic health conditions cope with all of the usual challenges of growing up – making friends, changing schools, adapting to new situations, developing a sense of self, and dealing with interpersonal conflict. But they …
South Africa in the news: IOC Does Not Want Athletes To Speak Out: The Olympic movement threw out South Africa in 1964 because of apartheid. There was the African countries boycott of the 1976 Montreal Games. American President Jimmy Carter ordered a boycott of …: “South Africa” – BingNews Coping with Covid-19 news fatigue: MEDIA …
South Africa in the news: IOC Does Not Want Athletes To Speak Out: The Olympic movement threw out South Africa in 1964 because of apartheid. There was the African countries boycott of the 1976 Montreal Games. American President Jimmy Carter ordered a boycott of …: “South Africa” – BingNews Coping with Covid-19 news fatigue: MEDIA …
South Africa in the news: Why some countries don’t want to wait for Covid vaccines from superpowers: Worried about being left behind when a Covid vaccine is ready, dozens of labs, researchers and companies from Thailand to Nigeria are bootstrapping their own work on inoculations.: “South Africa” – BingNews COVID-19 lockdowns blocked flu in some …
South Africa in the news: Zimbabweans companies want to trade in Rand: CAPTAINS of industry in Bulawayo have pleaded with the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, to promote the wide use of the …: “South Africa” – BingNews UZ investigates fake documents ring: If you have “qualified” employees that are proving …
South Africa is failing on COVID-19 because its leaders want to emulate the First World: The township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town. South Africa has adopted First World COVID-19 responses for Third World reality. COVID-19 infections are rising sharply in South Africa – and Latin America. This is fitting: South Africa resembles the countries of …
Why young people still want to go to university, even though it’ll be very different to usual: F8 studio/Shutterstock Applications to universities in the UK have increased during the COVID-19 lockdown. UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, has reported a 1.6% increase from last year, and over 40% of all UK 18-year-olds have now …
South Africa in the news: TRUCK DRIVERS: WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!: They gathered this morning at the City Deep Truck Stop George Coch hostel. Truck driver Michael Chaphole told Daily Sun, “The local companies are not taking us seriously, when we’re looking for …: “South Africa” – BingNews Yarona is unperturbed: Yarona Morule (16) …
Nairobi’s street names reveal what those in power want to remember, or forget: City traffic on Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya. Vlad Karavaev/Shutterstock The recent global events of civil and political unrest that started in the US have brought to the fore the complex dynamics of urban memorialisation. The protests have, in some places, led …
South Africa in the news: Neil O’Brien: The New Puritans want to tear down our liberal settlement. Here’s what they think – and why they must be resisted.: Neil O’Brien is MP for Harborough. Consider recent news. JK Rowling criticised the expression “people who menstruate,” leading to accusations of “transphobia”, numerous …: “South Africa” – …
South Africa in the news: Money SOS: “Work trips may be cancelled but I want to get to a new place with my pensions”: We help a writer deal with her four pensions during the coronavirus lockdown – we explain the costs she needs to consider, and how to make a transfer …: “South Africa” …
Black British citizens want more than complacency from this government: As Black Lives Matter protests spread, the UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, was recently taken to task about the lack of diversity in the government of prime minister, Boris Johnson. When pressed about the lack of black cabinet ministers, Hancock said that British Asian politicians …