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ArticleNew top cops appoin­ted ‘to boost crime-fight­ing’

FOUR new pro­vin­cial police com­mis­sion­ers are expec­ted to strengthen detect­ive and crime intel­li­gence cap­ab­il­it­ies and enhance account­ab­il­ity while work­ing closely with com­munit­ies and stake­hold­ers to rebuild and main­tain pub­lic...

ArticleStruggle icons hon­oured, 70 years since the Women’s March

VARIOUS Struggle icons who took part in the August 1956 Women's March against pass laws, includ­ing Lil­lian Ngoyi, Alb­er­tina Sis­ulu, Helen Joseph, and Sophia Wil­li­ams de Bruyn, have been remembered for their role in shap­ing the coun­try's...

ArticleMKP denies fir­ing Wil­lies Mchunu and Zandile Gumede

THE uMk­honto weSizwe Party (MKP) has described a let­ter cir­cu­lat­ing on social media which sug­ges­ted that the party has removed both KwaZulu-Natal con­vener Wil­lies Mchunu and his deputy Zandile Gumede as the work of ‘pro­vocateurs of mis­truths...

ArticleKgan­yago defends Reserve Bank’s 3% infla­tion tar­get

ArticleSub­ject­ing Fauci to justice should be rep­lic­ated here

THE exchanges that took place on July 29 in the US Sen­ate when the ‘Man of Sci­ence,’ Dr Ant­ony Fauci, was reduced to igno­miny exem­pli­fied the expres­sion that what goes around, comes around. As the luminary on infec­tious dis­eases and chief...

ArticleIn Rome, one man’s pas­sion­ate cru­sade against graf­fiti removal

INCH by inch, the high-pres­sure jet erased the huge, gaudy tag — the second time in two weeks that Valerio Tuv­eri has sand­blas­ted clean the wall of a his­toric park in Rome. Wear­ing a full white over­all, head­phones over his ears and a work mask...