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Dark tourism and the obscenity of understanding
Auschwitz nazi camp
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2024-10-08, Asiatimes
There is a disturbing trend of people traveling to the sadder places of the world: sites of military attacks, war zones and disasters. Dark tourism is now a phenomenon,...
Africa's Stand Against Foreign Interference: A Call for Unity in the Face of Destabilization
FILE - A police officer and a soldier from Benin stop a motorcyclist at a checkpoint outside Porga, Benin, March 26, 2022. Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, a new report said Wednesday, June 19, 2024, the latest trend in the militants' movements to wealthier West African coastal nations.
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2024-09-04, Independent online (SA)
By Bayethe Msimang Africa is at a critical juncture, grappling with a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. Recent events in the Sahel and the escalating tensions...
Errol Musk says he got death threats against family when Elon was 5 forcing him ...
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award, in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020
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2024-06-27, The Sun
ELON Musk has been the target of death threats since he was just five years old, his dad has told The U.S. Sun. The world's richest man, 52, told Tesla shareholders...
Gaston Sirino enjoying new dawn at Nasreddine Nabi’s Kaizer Chiefs2024-10-22
Independent online (SA): Gaston Sirino has found a new lease on life at Kaizer Chiefs, and the winger is loving every minute at Naturena. After falling out of favour at Mamelodi Sundowns, who have won the league title seven times in a row, the 33-year-old made a move down the N1 from...
Taiwan again rejects South African demand to move its representative office from capital2024-10-22
Killeen Daily Herald: Taiwan has again rejected South...
Minister Blade Nzimande visits Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 22 Oct (South Africa Government)2024-10-22
Public Technologies: ) The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Blade Nzimande, will visit the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as part of an ongoing programme to engage with entities of the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation....
UP celebrates 10 years of Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) (University of Pretoria)2024-10-22
Public Technologies: ) The University of Pretoria's (UP) flagship AfricaScienceLeadership Programme (ASLP) is set to host a two-day celebration, on 25 and 26 October, of its first decade of empowering researchers as thought leaders The ASLP is hosted at Future Africa, UP's...
In South Africa, water shortages are the new reality2024-10-22
Knoxville Daily Sun: Joyce Lakela runs a nursery in Tembisa, a Johannesburg township, but these days she spends most of her time trying to find water.� "It's been going on for five days," she said, lamenting shortages affecting South Africa's largest city where temperatures are...
南非要求台代表处迁出 台外交部曾召见南非驻台代表抗议2024-10-22
Lianhe Zaobao: 南非政府据传要求台湾代表处迁出后，台湾外交部曾召见南非驻台代表表达不满和抗议，并强调对未来可能发展皆有准备。...
Taiwan again rejects South African demand to move its representative office from Pretoria2024-10-22
Arab News: Updated 29 sec ago AP October 22, 2024 05:38...
南非要求台代表处迁出 台外交部曾召见南非驻台代表表抗议2024-10-22
Lianhe Zaobao: 南非政府据传要求台湾代表处迁出后，台湾外交部曾召见南非驻台代表表达不满和抗议，并强调对未来可能发展皆有准备。...
Taiwan South Africa2024-10-22
Beaumont Enterprise: FILE- A rainbow forms over the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. ......
‘Close them all and let them go’: Gayton McKenzie calls for closure of foreign-owned tuckshops ...2024-10-22
Independent online (SA): Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie has called for closure of all foreign-owned tuckshops and deportation of undocumented foreign nationals, following the rise of incidents where learners died and fell ill after eating toxic snacks bought at...
Kyodo News Digest: Oct. 22, 20242024-10-22
Kyodo: A Japan Airlines Co. Boeing 767 passenger jet with a Disney-themed livery is unveiled to the press at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 21, 2024, before its debut mainly on domestic flights to and from the airport later in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following...
Summit expected to discuss financial cooperation2024-10-22
China Daily: Progress in BRICS financial cooperation to facilitate international trade is expected to be made at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, according to South African analysts. "It is expected that there would be a follow-up on the Johannesburg declaration on the...
EMS researcher elected to Academy of Science of South Africa (University of Stellenbosch)2024-10-21
Public Technologies: ) Prof Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, co-director of the Centre for SustainabilityTransitions (CST) and holder of the DST/NRFSouth AfricanChair in Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience, recently received another feather in her cap when she was elected as a...
WATCH: Can medical specialists’ legal action reverse NHI?2024-10-21
Business Day: The SA Private Practitioners Forum (SAPPF) has started...