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Sat, 18 Sep 2021 09:00:00 +0000The convenient myth of an Africa spared from Covid-19
There are few, if any, studies to support Pfizer chief executive’s assertion that the global south would be more vaccine-hesitant than the north
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Sat, 18 Sep 2021 04:00:00 +0000‘The children cannot cope any more’: Suicide in Calvinia highlights lack of support for young
How Covid-19 has intensified the physical and emotional burdens placed on children’s shoulders.
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:00:00 +0000Council wants Hawks, SIU probe into BAT’s Zimbabwe scandal
The cigarette maker has been accused of giving up to $500 000 in bribes and spying on competitors
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:00:00 +0000Encoding and decoding social unrest: A semiotic analysis of the ‘Zuma protests’
Labelling the protestors as looters denies the political consciousness of those living in precarity, it unconscionably encodes a criminal stereotype over the poor and erases any justice claims that motivate their actions
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 17:30:00 +0000Geostrategic fault lines show up at the annual Brics summit
While the summit leaders solemnly swear that they are singing off the same struggle song sheet towards progressive development, the bloc’s leaders’ solidarity is mostly skin-deep
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 17:00:00 +0000How Alpha Condé overthrew Alpha Condé
Since the coup d’état, Guinea’s head of state has been in the custody of the military officers. But it was the president who was the primary architect of his own downfall
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:30:00 +0000Capitec Bank flies high above Viceroy’s arrow
The bank took a knock after being labelled a loan shark by the short seller, but this has not stymied its growth
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:50:17 +0000Screen Grab: An eastern western, way down South
In the acclaimed ‘Minari’, now streaming on Showmax, a Korean family start farming and fuming in the Ozarks
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:46:45 +0000The ghosts of Memphis: The good, the bad, the rock ’n soul
The city where Martin Luther King Jr took his last breath remains haunted by urban blight, blues and soul
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:38:02 +0000‘The Making of Mount Edgecombe’: A view of history from below
Indian indentured labourers’ lives are celebrated in a new book, Sugar Mill Barracks: The Making of Mount Edgecombe
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