CAPE TOWN – Supermarket giant Pick n Pay on Tuesday said 1 400 staff had accepted voluntary retrenchment packages and launched a broadside at the government over its ongoing ban on tobacco and alcohol sales as part of efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. The company said while the retrenchments had been in the pipeline...
Money in the time of Covid-19 is an anxiety-inducing topic. This is a challenging time and we have a “new normal” that we must adapt our lives and our finances to. When life gets this unpredictable, the best thing one can do is go back to basics. Here are some of my 2020 money management...
Have we seen the bottom? It appears so. The NSA (National Statistics Agency) has released a set of six sectoral indices with data to May 2020 for the following sectors: Beverages, Building Industry, Electricity, Livestock, Tourism and Transport. They all still show that, compared to the same time last year, economic activity is down massively. ...
Haikali Ndatulumukwa Finally, the day had arrived. It was 09h00 in the morning of 21 July 2020 when I went to visit one of the first Namibians who visited China way back in the 60s. Of course, I was simply elated. Who wouldn’t want to share a table with Angeline Kozonguizi and listen to her...
Cairo – several renowned authors and hollywood stars called on egypt to free prominent activist sanaa seif and other political prisoners in an open letter published yesterday. “We callontheegyptian authorities to immediately release sanaa…and all those detained for peacefully exercising their rights,” the letter said. seif (26) was arrested outside the public prosecutor’s office and...
Johannesburg – South Africa’s ethics watchdog said Monday it was investigating several complaints involving the irregular supply of protective gear and sub-standard quarantine facilities in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Known as the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane said her office “has over the last four months seen a rapid surge in the number of...
Okontalaka yominista onkulu yuundjolowele nonkalonawa Dr Bernard Haufiku onga omugandjimayele kombelewa yapresidente ngele tashi ya kiinima ya nika uuhaku oya hulithwa po. Okontalaka yaHaufiku oya li ya hulithwa po kupresidente Hage Geingob momasiku 30 Juli 2020 konima sho ominista yuuhaku Dr Kalumbi Shangula a li a gandja omadhilaadhilo opo Haufiku kaa kale we omugandjimayele. Omushangwa...
We all wish we could be superman sometimes; we wish we could get by and do it all by ourselves, we wish we were self-made. In reality, it seldomly happens like that, everyone needs and gets help one way or another. Life and circumstances don’t always go as planned and things don’t always work out...
Going through life, there will come a time when you will endure hurt. This hurt may shape or mould the manner in which you react to being wronged. The interesting thing about hurt is that it reveals our innermost selves, in a way we react to being hurt, informing us of what lies deep within...
TOKYO – As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the last generation of nuclear bomb survivors are working to ensure their message lives on after them. The “hibakusha” – literally “person affected by the bomb” – have for decades been a powerful voice calling for the abolition of nuclear...