Council wants Hawks, SIU probe into BAT’s Zimbabwe scandal
09/17/2021
07:00 PM
The cigarette maker has been accused of giving up to $500 000 in bribes and spying on competitors
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Encoding and decoding social unrest: A semiotic analysis of the ‘Zuma protests’
09/17/2021
07:00 PM
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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Geostrategic fault lines show up at the annual Brics summit
09/17/2021
05:30 PM
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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How Alpha Condé overthrew Alpha Condé
09/17/2021
05:00 PM
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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Capitec Bank flies high above Viceroy’s arrow
09/17/2021
04:30 PM
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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Screen Grab: An eastern western, way down South
09/17/2021
03:50 PM
In the acclaimed ‘Minari’, now streaming on Showmax, a Korean family start farming and fuming in the Ozarks
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The ghosts of Memphis: The good, the bad, the rock ’n soul
09/17/2021
03:46 PM
The city where Martin Luther King Jr took his last breath remains haunted by urban blight, blues and soul
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‘The Making of Mount Edgecombe’: A view of history from below
09/17/2021
03:38 PM
Indian indentured labourers’ lives are celebrated in a new book, Sugar Mill Barracks: The Making of Mount Edgecombe
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Case of men arrested with 19 rhino horns is postponed
09/17/2021
02:37 PM
Alleged rhino kingpin and a Mpumalanga businessman appeared in court on charges of the illegal possession and selling of rhino horns
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Zuma’s rescission application dismissed with costs
09/17/2021
02:08 PM
Former president Jacob Zuma fails to meet requirements in his application to set aside his contempt order and prison sentence
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