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Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:58:47 +0000ConCourt clarifies act for asylum seekers
The apex court has reversed amendments to the act that made it difficult for refugees to apply for asylum while making it easy for Home Affairs officials to unjustly detain and deport them.
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Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:38:48 +0000First foreign aid flights reach Tonga
Tonga has been inaccessible since Saturday, when one of the largest volcanic explosions in decades cloaked the nation in a layer of ash, triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami and severed vital undersea communication cables
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Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:19:00 +0000After the results, what’s next for matriculants?
Late applicants will have a tough time getting into a university of their choice.
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:05:09 +0000New era of health science for Africa as NantSA launches vaccine-manufacturing campus
The first locally manufactured Covid-19 vaccine from the new facility, which is based in Cape Town, is expected within the next year
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000We fishermen stopped Big Oil’s seismic blasts in Norway’s fisheries, you can do it too
Something is going wrong in the marine environment, and the race for new oil reserves, aided by comprehensive seismic blasts around the world, makes it likely that seismic surveys create extensive damages and consequences
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:25:28 +0000SAA to revive Durban route
The beleaguered national carrier resumed flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town last September after exiting business rescue
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:42:28 +0000Wounds of war cast pall on Ethiopia’s epiphany festival
Festivities were stained with signs of the war's toll: Gondar's hospitals teemed with wounded combatants, while families like Arega's confronted the absence of the deceased.
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:23:09 +0000‘Partygate’: A timeline of Boris Johnson’s latest scandal
The UK Prime Minister defended some of the events — quickly dubbed "partygate" since they were reported in newspapers from late last year — as work gatherings.
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000Freedom of speech wins over right to privacy in court battle over unethical wildlife killings
The supreme court of appeal says an animal rights activist had the right to ‘out’ a farmer on Facebook.
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:21:44 +0000Fighting for inclusion can never be fascism, Drew Forrest!
The M&G has a responsibility to deplatform dehumanising views, to advocate for free speech but not allow hate speech
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