Tuesday, February 8 2022
THE BIG ISSUES
LEADING THE AGENDA
Thrown to the wolves: how intelligence, police failed SA during July riots
SANDF emerges unscathed from expert panel’s report. The same can certainly not be said of other security branches
Jezebel and red dragons allowing, the new chief justice should do just fine
Mogoeng, who barely inhabited this world, did a competent job of it, so it should be a doddle for his successor
Richards Bay parents livid as ‘gas leak’ fells pupils, but Foskor is silent
Education department says 37 pupils were taken to hospital, with 36 discharged, but medic puts the figure higher
SMART NEWS
IN ONE TAKE
Provinces scramble for mobile classrooms as rotational teaching ends
With pupils back at school full-time there is a sense of ‘euphoria’, but some institutions are battling with space
Town ‘enraged’ after murder of teen who was picking fruit
Klawer residents have slammed police for ‘not acting immediately’ after Jerobejin van Wyk went missing
Witchcraft! cries black-clad ‘serial burglar’ as she’s nabbed with vax card
Woman, suspected of three other burglaries in the City of Joburg building, caught with knapsack full of hard drives
Paediatric surgeon Peter Beale stripped of licence to operate
Despite Beale no longer being on HPCSA register, the council said there are five pending cases for children’s deaths
IDEAS
FEEDING YOUR MIND
EDITORIAL | Another day, another damning report. Stop dilly-dallying, Cyril
That intelligence services ‘failed to predict the nature, scale and modus operandi of the July violence’ is chilling
How neighbourhood watch WhatsApp group shaped fears in Cape suburb
Study observes how anxiety and racial profiling became part of everyday practice in the chatroom
As China wants no Covid trouble, Olympians toil within a bubble
In line with its Covid-zero policy, the country has confined those involved in the Games to a city within a city
WORLD
THE NEWS YOU DON'T NORMALLY GET TO HEAR
The Bongbong club: Imelda Marcos’s son hopes power bid will be a shoe-in
Filipinos can’t seem to escape the family as dictator’s son repackages his dad’s image for a younger generation
Anti-vax Aussies cause chaos in and around capital Canberra
They have blocked roads ahead of parliament’s return with protests similar to Canadian trucker demonstrations
‘I have never washed so many corpses in one day. We were exhausted’
Turkey’s ‘ghassals’ say at the height of Covid-19 they were preparing up to 40 bodies a day. They normally wash five
Seaing the light: start-up set to weed out cows’ climate-warming burps
Adding seaweed supplements to the diet of cows on a Swedish beef farm cut methane emissions by more than 80%
LIFE
EVERYTHING ELSE THAT MATTERS
Games panda mascot threatened with extinction as demand exceeds supply
China to boost supply of Bing Dwen Dwen as souvenir hunters queue up for the toy
Eat this, Frenchies, there’ll be no more pink ham for you
France is set to cut the use of nitrite in cured meats. The compound gives boiled ham its colour
Who needs politics when they can have palinka and pigs?
In the run-up to an April election, Hungarians ditched their differences on Saturday for a feast of pork and brandy
SPORT
FINISH LINE ESSENTIALS
Senegal in party mode after Africa Cup of Nations victory
Football fans party in the streets as triumph ends jinx that kept grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory
Man United top the league of transfer losses with €1bn net spend
Despite having the highest net spend over the past decade, United’s return in terms of silverware has been poor
Blast from the past: Bafana make slow start to Afcon defence
Today in SA sports history: February 8