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Tuesday, June 28 2022

THE BIG ISSUES

LEADING THE AGENDA

ANALYSIS | Missed opportunity for ANC Gauteng: Lesufi to the rescue?

The weekend gathering failed to discuss strategies on how to prevent losing power come the 2024 general elections

Mawande AmaShabalala
Political journalist
3 min read

There are the old idiots and the new ones, and there’s Gwede on the fence

Either he doesn’t know the difference between cadre deployment and affirmative action, or he’s back to his old tricks

Tom Eaton
Columnist
4 min read

Double birthday party at Enyobeni tavern promised to be a ‘killer event’

Footage on social media reveals underage patrons at the establishment are a regular sight

By TimesLIVE Team and DispatchLIVE Team
2 min read

SMART NEWS

IN ONE TAKE

Quack loses bid to finish medical degree

Former student has, with help of three firms of attorneys, been trying in vain to complete a module at his institution

3 min read

‘Zondo didn’t write state capture report’: Motsoeneng comes out swinging

Zondo must come clean on who penned state capture report that recommended I be investigated: Hlaudi Motsoeneng

Isaac Mahlangu
Senior reporter
4 min read

They might be amigos, but they should be charged for R44m fraud: Zondo

State capture report says heads must roll in multi-million-rand water purification contract and donations to ANC

5 min read

West Coast mining operations on deadline to reduce harm

An Australian mining company has a month left to submit a plan and motivation to environment minister

Claire Keeton
Senior features writer
4 min read
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IDEAS

FEEDING YOUR MIND

Tavern tragedy: too much blaming, too few answers

How the youngsters died is the priority, Bheki Cele, not people’s parenting skills or perceived lack thereof

2 min read

SA dubious about greywater, but it’s a saviour

Some people have even found their gardens produce more food after greywater is used, and it repels insects too

By Timothy Dube
5 min read

WORLD

THE NEWS YOU DON'T NORMALLY GET TO HEAR

Eye on the world — June 28 2022

Six of the best pictures of the day

By Reuters
0 min read

Republicans once went a case at a time, but not anymore

Supreme Court rulings on gun and abortion rights within 24 hours reflect ‘originalist’ view of US constitution

By Greg Stohr
6 min read

Zimbabwe desperate to clip soaring inflation’s wings

It is planning a triple-digit interest rate hike to tame inflation. The revised inflation outlook is now 160%

By Ray Ndlovu
1 min read

Life is a spectacle: the remarkable rise of the Ray-Ban billionaire

The Italian entrepreneur, who died this week, went from orphan to owner of the world’s biggest maker of eyewear

By Tommaso Ebhardt
3 min read

Forget about Dundee. Meet Crocodile Indee

A 53-year-old Indonesian man captures four metre croc with a rope after it had terrorised villagers

By Angie Teo
1 min read

LIFE

EVERYTHING ELSE THAT MATTERS

London veterans go back 50 years to before Pride was ‘just a big party’

Campaigners remember the ‘empowering’ event that astonished and bewildered the public back in 1972

By Lucy Marks
3 min read

In a world at sea over climate change, Aquaman takes fight off-screen

Actor Jason Momoa joins 7,000 others at UN Ocean Conference, saying we must seek to right our wrongs

By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira
1 min read

Slimane dares to go bare for Celine

The designer closed Paris Fashion Week with bare-chested models, dazzling blazers and shades

By Laetitia Volga
1 min read

SPORT

FINISH LINE ESSENTIALS

Who is Buccaneers’ new coach and where’s he from?

Orlando Pirates’ new boss Jose Riveiro started coaching at 17 and has a fear of flying

Marc Strydom
Journalist
3 min read

Wimbledon is open for business, but not quite as usual

Serena Williams is back but no Roger Federer as Centre Court celebrates its 100th anniversary

By MARTYN HERMAN
2 min read

CROSSWORDS

GIVE YOUR BRAIN SOME EXERCISE