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South Africans Divided On New Smoking Laws – Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health held three public hearings in Gauteng about the draft bill on tobacco laws. [sapeople]
First Cooking Oil Fuelled Transatlantic Flight For Virgin Atlantic – But No Paying Passengers On Board – Critics accuse airline of overstating environmental benefits, but CEO Shai Weiss says: ‘To think that we can magic up elimination of flying is naive’. [independent]
Gucci’s Design Team Just Went On Strike For The First Time In Its 102-Year History – A union representative claims the company used an office relocation to effectively lay workers off. [robbreport]
City Invites Public Input On Traffic Calming And Road Safety Initiatives – The City’s Urban Mobility Portfolio Committee is seeking the public’s input to refine its road safety strategy and traffic calming policy. This initiative is aimed at enhancing road safety for pedestrians, motorists and public transport users. [capetownetc]
Shivambu To Be Docked Nine Days’ Salary Over VBS-Linked Payments, Cele Asked To Apologise, And Peters Suspended For One Term In Parliament – Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said Shivambu, Police Minister Bheki Cele, and Deputy Minister of Small Business Development Dipuo Peters were found guilty of various breaches of the Ethics Code and the House imposed different sanctions on them. [iol]
Introducing The New Casual Sobriety – Sobriety apps and sesh circuit breakers: We interviewed abstainers on how quitting drink has now become a cool lifestyle choice. [vice]
The Fast And Wounded: Victims Drive 50km To Hospital After Shootout With Facebook Marketplace Robbers – Two men, who were left bloodied and wounded after a dramatic shootout with a gang of Facebook Marketplace scammers, made a desperate 50km drive to hospital to save their own lives. [news24]
Holomisa, Malema, Mkhwebane Use Fake ‘Intelligence Report’ To Push False ‘Judicial Corruption’ Claims – On Monday, UDM leader Bantu Holomisa asked Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) to investigate claims of judicial corruption contained in a report “purportedly drafted by Ms Thembisile Majola, the recently resigned director-general of the State Security Agency”. [news24]
Charlie Munger, Friend And Business Partner Of Warren Buffett, Dies – Billionaire investor Charlie Munger, the long-time friend and business partner of Warren Buffett, has died. He was 99 years old. [cnn]
Why Swedes Don’t Speak To Strangers – In Sweden, casual chattiness is seen as needless, since conversation is used for exchanging real, meaningful information. [bbctravel]
Endgame Pulled From Dutch Bookshops After Royal Who ‘Questioned’ Archie’s Skin Colour ‘Named’ – Publishers Xander say there had been an “error in the Dutch translation” of the book, originally written in English by the author Omid Scobie. [sky]
Are Edibles Actually Good for Sleep? – About 14% of U.S. adults said they used marijuana edibles as of 2022, and research suggests many of them do so in search of better sleep. [time]
South African Black Friday Shoppers Spent R4.5 Billion – BankservAfrica recorded 1.4 million transactions totalling R1.39 billion through its online 3D-secure service on Black Friday 2023. [mybroadband]
Exposed: The SANDF ‘Torture’ Squad – Open Secrets exposes a military squad allegedly responsible for acts of torture and murder. The evidence implicates at least four units of the SANDF in crimes dating back to 2019. They are the elite Special Forces Brigade, the Military Police, Defence Intelligence and Defence Legal Services. [dm]
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