Tuesday, December 3 2019
THE BIG ISSUES
LEADING THE AGENDA
EFF threatens to occupy farm of killer white sangoma
Party says 800 supporters are mobilising after Fritz Joubert beat his sangoma trainer to death
Cricket SA take note: going to war with scribes is a very bad idea
Instead, they should focus on their maladministration and chronic inability to make critical decisions
That was a laughably weak spin attack by Cricket SA
FREE TO READ | Its hissy fit about journalists’ criticisms may be comical, but it’s also worrying
SMART NEWS
IN ONE TAKE
Relax? With hair products stronger than Harpic?!
FREE TO READ | The strong alkalis used in SA relaxers are at greater concentration than in household cleaning products
Bigots and racists beware: hate speech laws are going nowhere
ConCourt is still to have its final say on the legislation – and it’s likely to decide that much of it must stay
SA’s sexual predator soldiers in government’s crosshairs
Threat by UN sees defence minister announce task team to investigate scourge of rape by country’s troops
Wild Coast locals hit land jackpot but infighting thwarts payout
Hailed as an unprecedented empowerment project, with ecotourism projects thrown in, the deal is in tatters
At-risk girls surf the wave to better lives
NGO pulls girls from the grip of poverty in Durban, helping them use surfing to leave life on the street behind
SNAPSHOT
Six things about SA you need to know
Teacher ‘engaged in sexual misconduct’ with pupils
SA data prices ‘too high and anti-poor’
Cape advocate gunned down in hail of bullets
AfriForum pulls private case against alleged rapist
Mentally challenged patient killed in ward
Whites can join BLF, but T&C apply
THE VISUAL SIDE
Advocate Vernon Jantjies, 54, died in a hail of bullets at Lentegeur in Mitchells Plain as he stepped out of a shop on Sunday. Jantjies’s friend, advocate Gilbert Jose, said on Monday the legal profession in Cape Town appeared to be under siege, with three other criminal lawyers having been gunned down since 2016.
SNAPSHOT
6 things you need to know about the world
Makes you grateful we only have Rica
No new park? Over your dead bodies
Madiba gives birth to white rhino
Blossoms created the biggest buzz
Museum chief gets nude awakening
Auschwitz Christmas baubles are here - truly
THE BUSINESS
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
It may not feel like it, but now is the right time to be building
FREE TO READ | Unexciting projects have exciting consequences (and cures) for economic imbalances such as unemployment
Mantashe is doing a good job on paper of killing SA mining
Complexities of mining and environmental regulations means junior mining is as good as dead in the water
Big pension funds start asking hard climate change questions
Easy for boards to fob off environmentalists, but tone changes when large shareholders start making a noise
LIFESTYLE
CULTURE COMES ALIVE
Just for the record: Mary’s Boy Chi....skkkkkkkkrttt!!!
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Four good reasons to book yourself off for the holidays
Good ideas for your downtime reading this season
Choose your point of view or just go with the flower
Raél Jero Salley explores the tension between permanence and evanescence in new MoMo show
SPORT
FINISH LINE ESSENTIALS
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