An open letter to Leigh Meinert in response to her article, ‘Beyond the false choice – why SA needs both palliative care and assisted dying’.

As billions pour in for South Africa’s Just Energy Transition, a damning report by Open Secrets reveals how the very consultants advising top polluters are now reaping the profits from the country’s Just Energy Transition, and operating with little public oversight.

A video depicting Professor Salim Abdool Karim criticising Covid-19 vaccines has been condemned as fabricated and harmful by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa and the national Department of Health.

Following a week when the ceasefire between Israel and Iran (with the US as a supporting actor) took hold, it is still unclear what happens next, how things will evolve, or if a more permanent, peaceful settlement among the protagonists is even possible.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, June 30 (Reuters) – Palestinians in northern Gaza reported one of the worst nights of Israeli bombardment in weeks after the military issued mass evacuation orders on Monday, while Israeli officials were due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by the Trump administration.

OXNARD, California, June 30 (Reuters) – Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the US illegally.

More than a decade after the dodgy locomotive deal, two senior MK party MPs — Brian Molefe and Siyabonga Gama — face legal action for allegedly siphoning off R93m through Trillian Capital. Their arrests revive old Zondo Commission questions about whether grand corruption ever really pays back.