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SA’s wildfire crisis escalates with 1802 fires this year alone

Sep 16, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |Hasina Kathrada

Runaway fires fuelled by the climate crisis are more frequent and devastating, destroying farmland, property, protected areas and people’s livelihoods This content is restricted to subscribers only. Join the M&G Community Our commitment at the Mail & Guardian is to ensure every reader enjoys the finest experience. Join the M&G community and support us in delivering in-depth news to you consistently.
Imagining a better digital public sphere

Sep 14, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |Richard Pithouse

The decision by the supreme court in Brazil to uphold a judgment to shut down X in the country is a significant challenge to the extraordinary planetary power of the tech companies. The ban was in response to the failure of Elon Musk’s X Corp, which owns X, to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, a requirement in Brazilian law. This followed the refusal of X Corp to follow a judicial order to block accounts spreading patently false information.
ANC may sink ActionSA bid to take Tshwane

Sep 13, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |Mandisa Nyathi |Lunga Mzangwe

ActionSA has promised positions to the ANC and EFF but the former ruling party is cautious of the city’s poor finances and service delivery failures This content is restricted to subscribers only. Join the M&G Community Our commitment at the Mail & Guardian is to ensure every reader enjoys the finest experience. Join the M&G community and support us in delivering in-depth news to you consistently.
Hawks circle over ANC heavyweights Mabuyakhulu and Nkonyeni as Gaston Savoi makes deal with NPA

Sep 13, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |Paddy Harper

Tenderpreneur Gaston Savoi throws his amigos, including Peggy Nkonyeni and Mike Mabuyakhulu, under the bus This content is restricted to subscribers only. Join the M&G Community Our commitment at the Mail & Guardian is to ensure every reader enjoys the finest experience. Join the M&G community and support us in delivering in-depth news to you consistently.
Good teachers undone by bad politics

Sep 13, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke

Nothing more aptly illustrates the dysfunction in many South African schools than a video circulated this week of schoolboys cheering as their classmate wrestled with a female teacher. The quips about teaching being an “extreme sport” aside, many soberly reflected that the incident is yet another indictment of our education system, particularly in public schools. Discipline is a big problem — and has been central to the enduring discourse about the wisdom of abolishing corporal punishment.
Global Witness report: 196 land and environmental defenders killed in 2023

Sep 12, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |Sheree Bega

Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz were working together to protect the communityof San Miguel de Aquila in Mexico from years of abuse by mining giant Ternium. In January last year, both defenders disappeared. Neither have been found. Three months after they vanished, anti-mining activist Eustacio Alcalá also disappeared, and was found dead two days later.
No mpox jabs for SA yet - but WHO and Africa CDC will help to fight the outbreak

Sep 10, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |Mia Malan

South Africa is one of 14 countries that will be financially supported by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) from this month until February 2025 to draw up and roll out plans, including vaccination strategies, to fight mpox.
Think local and regional to sustain scaling South African enterprise growth

Sep 10, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |James Maposa

South Africa’s economy grew at a modest annual average rate of 0.3% to 2% from 2021 to 2023. In contrast, the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC’s) economy expanded at a faster pace, with average growth rates ranging from 2.5% to 4%, according to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and United Nations. Leading SADC economies included Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania, experienced more robust growth, ranging between 3.5% and 6%.
US and China seek common ground to tackle the climate crisis

Sep 10, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |Imran Khalid

In a pivotal moment for global climate action, Liu Zhenmin, China’s envoy on climate change, and John Podesta, the senior adviser to the US president on international climate policy, held talks earlier this month to foster “practical cooperation” between the two global powers. Podesta and Liu Zhenmin co-chaired the Working Group on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s.
UIF commissioner hunts down Covid-19 Ters fraudsters

Sep 10, 2024 | mg.co.za | Nompumelelo Vumazonke |Lyse Comins

The department of labour has so far recovered R2.5 billion from employers who fraudulently claimed Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) benefits and is still continuing with its audit of companies in this regard.