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Friday, June 17 2022

THE BIG ISSUES

LEADING THE AGENDA

Find your balls and ditch Cyril or it’s curtains for you in 2024, ANC

Ramaphosa is pulling a Zuma on us, but his removal can only be engineered from within the ANC and that’s unlikely

Makhudu Sefara
Editor: TimesLIVE
5 min read

Born Free: youth deserve better than hollow promises of freedom

If we really cared, we’d require them to help make SA better. Instead, we dress up neglecting them as virtue

5 min read

SA’s trucking industry is crashing. This is why

Transporters face a daily battle to keep their trucks on the road in trying times

Suthentira Govender
Senior reporter
4 min read

SMART NEWS

IN ONE TAKE

Court halts Eskom’s attachment of municipality’s bank account — for now

But Renosterberg funds still frozen after a second judgment, leaving 800 workers without salaries

Isaac Mahlangu
Senior reporter
5 min read

Curriculum is failing intersex pupils who feel shunned by it: study

Bullying and questioning of pupils’ bodies results not only in depression but violence, suspension and dropouts

4 min read

The digital world is tough, and kids need to be taught how to survive it

It’s good to protect children from cyberbullying, but also equip them to be digitally resilient, urge experts

3 min read

No dog’s life for children who have canines in theirs

A study finds that youngsters who interact with dogs are less stressed than those who don’t

Claire Keeton
Senior features writer
5 min read

IDEAS

FEEDING YOUR MIND

Our kids deserve better, and we can all help

SA children should be living carefree existences, untroubled by poverty, domestic violence and crime

2 min read

I’m no guru, but it seems there’s still room for a groovy conman to coin it

A poll has found 77% of South Africans trust TimesLIVE, but then 68% also trust the creators of the Thembisa 10

Tom Eaton
Columnist
3 min read
Ideas FREE

Are you hectic with cold sweats? If not, it’s a mutation at work

A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd

Sue de Groot
Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
4 min read
Ideas FREE

Unlike their human counterparts, these bureaucrats keep the channels open

Hippos may spend up to 16 hours a day chilling in rivers and lakes, but they do an important job keeping waterways open

Nadine Dreyer
Features editor
3 min read
Ideas FREE

EXCLUSIVE | Douglas Stuart speaks to Eusebius about ‘Young Mungo’

The award-winning author’s book focuses on working-class communities in 1980s, 1990s Glasgow and Britain

Eusebius McKaiser
Contributor and analyst
2 min read

WORLD

THE NEWS YOU DON'T NORMALLY GET TO HEAR

Eye on the world — June 17 2022

Six of the best pictures of the day

By Reuters
0 min read

Beheadings paint brutal picture as Moz’s IS terror spreads to Pemba

Insurgent attacks have spiked since rainy season ended, as $20bn LNG project remains on hold

By Matthew Hill and Borges Nhamire
3 min read

Giving it horns: while West dithers, Russia, China scramble for Africa

The two are stepping up their involvement here, leaving the US and Europe worried they are losing their grip

By Peter Apps
5 min read

Biden comes out to support LGBTQ youth with conversion therapy order

The US president has ordered state departments to block funding to organisations involved in the practice

By Ella Ceron and Jordan Fabian
2 min read

Aussies face power cuts as elderly coal plants conk out. Sound familiar?

Coal-fired units have gone offline due to scheduled maintenance and unexpected faults, says Australian minister

By Sonali Paul
2 min read

LIFE

EVERYTHING ELSE THAT MATTERS

All a(r)t sea and loving the wave of success

After falling hook, line and sinker for cruising, an SA woman is now art head for a top gallery on the Norwegian Escape

Gill Gifford
Senior journalist
3 min read

How denim keeps sustainability fashionable, according to G-Star Raw

The brand urges fashionistas to ‘wear their denim to the end’ in its latest campaign

By Thango Ntwasa
1 min read

No news is good news

More people are avoiding the news and trusting it less, with younger audiences turning to aggregators, social media

By Helen Coster
1 min read

SPORT

FINISH LINE ESSENTIALS

Cough pours cold water on Sates’s world championship challenge

The ill-timed ailment has put the 18-year-old swimmer’s participation in Budapest in jeopardy

David Isaacson
Sports reporter
3 min read
Sport FREE

‘Blood and guts’ final expected as Bulls lock horns with Stormers

Fierce South African derby in store for Saturday’s United Rugby Championship final in Cape Town

By Nick Said
3 min read

CROSSWORDS

GIVE YOUR BRAIN SOME EXERCISE