Thursday 1 December
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LOCAL NEWS: (Kouga)
What’s On At The SUPERSPAR – Holiday Trading Hours and Christmas Specials
Notes From The Editor – Flash Float, Live Music, Marina Mile, Surf Contests, Grosvenor Road, Silent Soul – Updated Happenings In St Francis Bay and Environs. Please send us your event posters.
SA & AFRICA NEWS:
Criminals are stealing South Africa one piece at a time – but government has a plan – The Department of Trade and Industry and Competition (DTIC) has gazetted the final plan of action to regulate and restrict the trade of scrap metal in South Africa.
Sport:
World Cup 2022: Iranian man killed celebrating football team’s loss – Activists said Mehran Samak was shot in the head after he honked his car’s horn in Bandar Anzali on Tuesday night.
Burning Planet:
Kruger National Park’s rhinos are headed for extinction, we must declare emergency – Kruger National Park, the world’s greatest refuge for rhinos, is losing them to poaching faster than they’re being born.
Tweet World:
Elon Musk’s ‘catastrophic’ first month at the helm of Twitter – Musk warned that Twitter was losing $4-million a day – and then seemingly made that shortfall even worse by freaking out the advertisers with his scattershot management style and constant about-turns.
Action Sports:
Can A South African Cavern Queen With No Pipeline Experience Do Well At The Vans Pipe Masters ? – Sophie Bell will have a steep learning curve in Hawaii.
POLITICS:
As President Ramaphosa faces impeachment, tough political and constitutional decisions await – The Presidency said it recognised the “unprecedented and extraordinary moment for South Africa’s constitutional democracy”.
CRIME & CORRUPTION:
Transnet corruption: Brian Molefe, Anoj Singh, Eric Wood, Kuben Moodley, Siyabonga Gama and 13 co-accused in court – Former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe and his co-accused appeared briefly in the Palm Ridge Specialised Crimes Court on Wednesday.
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Charlize Theron breaks social media silence after Afrikaans drama to raise funds for African Parks – Charlize Theron has broken her social media silence since calling Afrikaans a “dying language”.
ENERGY:
Eskom bleeding engineers and technicians – Hundreds of skilled artisans, technicians, and engineers are walking away from South Africa’s state-owned companies, including Eskom, and they aren’t hiring enough qualified workers to compensate for the losses.
INTERNATIONAL:
Buckingham Palace official quits after asking Black charity boss where she was ‘really from’ – An honorary member of Buckingham Palace has resigned and apologized after a Black charity founder said she was questioned about whether she was really British at a royal reception on Tuesday.
BUSINESS:
SARS has made a big change to help taxpayers – what you need to know – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has announced that it is making its Voluntary Disclosure Programme (VDP) permanently available.
ENTERTAINMENT:
ENVIRONMENT:
Discovered in the deep: is this the world’s longest animal? – A submersible off the coast of Western Australia chanced upon an 45-metre-long deep-sea siphonophore arranged in a feeding spiral, trailing its deadly tentacles.
Travel:
Go less frequently, stay longer: how to embrace slow travel – The antithesis of whistle-stop world tours, single-destination holidays offer sustenance and sustainability
TECH:
Bitcoin is on ‘road to irrelevance’ amid crypto collapse – bitcoin is on an “artificially induced last gasp before the road to irrelevance”
