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Perhaps if we stop cleaving to hope and choose our dissatisfaction; realise the awful truth that the only saviour is individual and collective agency, then a different outcome…
Covid-19’s work-from-home plans hit Gautrain
Bombela says a rebound hinges on vaccine and return-to-work developments and that money from government to cover the shortfall is capped
Firestorms: How Australia’s bushfires created their own weather
During Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, lightning strikes caused new fires up to 100 kilometres away from the original blaze
Uganda police arrest pop-star MP Bobi Wine, teargas supporters
Having already been detained a number of times, the singer who looks set to challenge President Museveni in the 2021 elections has been arrested
Iraq parliament demands US troop ouster after Soleimani killing
Ties have deteriorated after an American precision drone strike killed Iran’s Major General Qasem Soleimani
Sudan sentences Omar al-Bashir to two years for corruption
The former president is also wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and genocide linked to the Darfur conflict
UN suspends ties with Caritas in CAR over sex abuse probe
Caritas has been operating in the strife-torn country since 1991, mainly coordinating programmes to protect children and assist displaced people
Defiant Bale down but not out at Real Madrid
Two seasons on he remains but Madrid face PSG again at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday, with the Welshman’s future still in doubt
Who’s who in Namibia’s presidential elections?
Namibia votes in a general election on Wednesday. Here are the four frontrunners
Rennie: All Blacks left it too late to offer me coach job
New Zealand has said its new coaching team will be named before Christmas, but it has now missed out on at least three high-profile candidates
Former minister Bongani Bongo arrested on corruption charges
The arrest is a big statement of intent by the justice system, but his defence has already said it wants to make “representations”
Snapchat checks for deception in political ads
The strategy seems to be a middle ground between Facebook’s controversial tolerance of proven lies in ads and Twitter’s decision to ban them
Paddy farmers rise up against Madagascar’s ‘new city’
Farmers in Ambohitrimanjaka village are facing off with the authorities over a scheme that threatens to engulf a thousand hectares of rice fields
Second Ebola vaccine introduced in the DRC
It said the new vaccine, produced by a Belgian subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is aimed at protecting 50 000 people over a period of four months
Hashtag Saudi Arabia: Chasing critics on Twitter
Here is a look at how Saudi Arabia has cracked down on dissent and criticism on social media