BRIEF: A win for gay rights in Angola
Angola’s decision is a move in the right direction, researchers say.
BRIEF: Australia vs Facebook
Australian lawmakers say they want “to curb the tech giants’ power over digital advertising.
BRIEF: Will Tiger make it out of the (injury) woods?
It can take anything between a few months to over a year for Woods’s lower leg bones to grow together,
Deep dive: Fashion has a waste problem. Here’s what you can do about it.
A simple guide to how thrifting can save the environment.
BRIEF: More people entered the labour force, but don’t have a job
That means more people are unemployed.
BRIEF: What’s that smell?
If you live anywhere in Joburg or Mpumalanga, you might have gotten a whiff of a terrible smell in the past few days. It smells a lot like rotten eggs. Ew, right? But that’s actually the smell of sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide. The Gauteng Weather service even issued a warning about poor air quality …
BRIEF: Recovery on the jobs front
After a torrid 2020, which saw about 3 million people losing their jobs in the first half of the year, we have some good news thanks to the survey with the worst name ever (National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey aka Nids-Cram). Whatever its name, it’s pretty reliable: a huge national household survey …
BRIEF: Rihanna’s Hindu god reference falls flat
Rihanna made news again this week for all the wrong reasons. The Barbados-born singer posted a picture of herself modelling her latest lingerie collection, Savage X Fenty. She was topless, albeit with her arms across her chest, and wore lavender coloured silk shorts. So far so normal for a pop star. But she also, inexplicably, …
Explainer: SA’s vaccine rollout goes ahead despite AstraZeneca hiccup
First inoculations expected to start this week.