EDITOR’S NOTE

IF you’re still reeling from watching the 2022 Commonwealth Games slip away, the World Economic Forum on Africa conference, opening in one of South Africa’s most beautiful and warmest cities on Wednesday, should console you. But we do have the Gogo Olympics too (see Page 8).

May all the 3 000 or so high-flying visitors enjoy the warmth of the people, the sun and surf as well as Durban’s world-class facilities enough to come back again and again to boost our economy. And let’s hope they’ll clinch deals to boost tourism and create jobs while they wine and dine this week (see Pages 12 and 18).

While some celebrated the court ruling putting the brakes on Eskom’s nuclear programme, the North Koreans seem unstoppable in their nuclear path. This despite the US warning of “catastrophic consequences” (see Page 10, below the Kim Kardashian “fake” behind story). And we think we have problems.

At the bottom (no pun intended) of that page our foreign editor draws comparisons between the Israeli government’s handling of its hunger striking political prisoners and the old South African government’s response to similar challenges in the past.

The world would be a better place if we all listened to Pope Francis’s message he delivered as part of this week’s global TED talk. As the media organisation’s slogan says, these are “ideas worth spreading”. “When there’s an us, there begins a revolution (of tenderness),” says the Pope (see Pge 15).

While on ideas, do you think Tim Noakes’s are worth spreading? Or is he just being controversial? Well, the prof doesn’t think he is, he believes he’s right (Page 16).

Ryland Fisher “thinks aloud” about tomorrow’s International Workers’ Day and argues the day should be about more than the organised workers (Page 19). Yes, what about the unemployed, the unorganised and unorganisable?

Happy Workers’ Day.