
There was seemingly no end to the measures the Spar Group took to rid itself of its biggest retail trading-group, the more than 40 Spar and Tops stores owned by the Giannacopoulos family. ...
After losing his cool when his fees were questioned. When veteran Cape Town insolvency practitioner Eileen Fey ventured to suggest to attorney Leonard Katz of law firm ENS that his bill of R422,871.57 to ...
Beware: appearances can be deceptive. Herold, a rural hamlet nestling in a valley at the top of the historical Montagu pass in the mountains above George is a picture of peace and tranquility. But, ...
They call it The Exterminator – South Africa’s Million Dollar Pigeon Race. Pigeon racing is a barbaric blood sport and a gambler’s dream, say British anti-cruelty activists in a damning media report ...
“Once upon a time in New York City, in the year 2020 to be precise, there lived a kind, medicinally-managed depressive: a neurotic hypochondriac by day, a neurotic insomniac by night. (Who’m I kidding? He ...
From another country: Artificial Intelligence 1 This is an extract from a much longer article by Ross Andersen that appeared online in The Atlantic in July, about the international political implications of recent advances ...
Artificial Intelligence 2 As the technology advances and becomes less costly, bioacoustics is poised to become an important remote-sensing tool for conservation. Mitch Aide, an ecologist based in Puerto Rico, thinks we should listen ...
Vodacom still profiting from wasp fraud When MyBroadband.co.za appeared on 26 July with a lead reporting that rogue WASPs have been allowed to steal (mostly FROM Vodacom subscribers) airtime unhindered for over a decade, ...
In a recent BBC World News interview, former senior British judge, Lord Sumption, described the general response to the coronavirus pandemic as ‘collective hysteria.’ He went on to say that we appear to ...
Why plug-in vehicles are not all they’re cracked up to be – and, likely, never will be. A Scandinavian electric vehicle company is expected to showcase a prototype electric truck later this year. This “state-of-the-art” ...
In 2020, we find ourselves in unfamiliar territory; a time when information is available instantaneously in the palm of our hands, but we face great uncertainty as the novel coronavirus, SARS-COV-2 perplexes ...
Before I go to sleep, I look at a picture of the Spanish Pyrenees. I imagine I am walking there, on the cobbled medieval paths in the footsteps of the Romans and the ...
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