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  • How to stop repeat crime offenders

    We must admire Dr Casper Lötter, a conflict criminologist affiliated with North-West University’s School of Philosophy, for airing his thoughts and suggestions on our pages today on how to stop repeat criminal offenders. Is that because he is an out-of-touch dreamer? No. Far from it – his ideas should be given serious consideration. He will…

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  • Help needed for patients on surgery waitlists

    Department of health failures continue to haunt the public, especially the disadvantaged communities who do not have access to private health care. Recently, I was shocked when I interviewed a 29-year-old woman from KwaZulu-Natal and discovered she has been on the hip surgery waiting list for almost two years. The waiting has affected her so…

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  • It’s far too early to lose the fight

    ‘You have liver cancer.” This is possibly the most devastating message I have ever received, but the young doctor who gave me this piece of bad news this week, didn’t look fazed at all. No sorry, nothing. Just that: “You have liver cancer.” I know everybody is here on earth temporarily, that we all have…

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  • Bosnian Muslims commemorate Srebrenica genocide

    Thousands of solemn mourners gathered in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia on Thursday to remember the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims, less two months after the United Nations established a memorial day to mark the genocide. On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the eastern Bosnian town — which was then a UN-protected…

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  • SNG GrantThornton

    We are looking to fill the following vacancy – SAICA Graduate Programme – Feb 2025

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  • OOS VRYSTAAT KAAP BEDRYF BPK / OPERATIONS LTD – OV

    We are looking to fill the following vacancy – Depot Manager / Depot Bestuurder ( Rietpan)

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  • Rhodes University

    We are looking to fill the following vacancy – Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science

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  • China building more wind, solar capacity than rest of world combined: report

    China is building almost twice as much wind and solar energy capacity as every other country combined, research published Thursday showed. The world’s second-largest economy is the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change. China has committed to bring carbon emissions to a peak by 2030 and to net zero by 2060.…

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  • Clooney, Democrats pile pressure on Biden

    A Democratic senator on Wednesday called on US President Joe Biden to ditch his reelection bid, capping a brutal day that saw mounting pressure from high-profile actor and donor George Clooney and party heavyweight Nancy Pelosi. As the 81-year-old tried to show his leadership credentials at a NATO summit in Washington, domestic calls have been…

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  • ‘Plaasjapie’: Strategiese stadsjapie van Bellville wen R795 000

    “Ek het vroeg vir myself gesê ek gaan met my kop speel en nie met my hart nie. Ek moes Plaasjapie strategies hard speel omdat ek geweet het ek is nie ’n fisiese bedreiging nie.”

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