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Sunday, June 8, 2025

She lost her art in the mail. A stranger rescued it from a bargain bin.

The sculptures were not made for a discount store but actually sold for thousands of dollars.

The Washington Post|Published

Celebrating 200 years of the waltz king

200 years after the birth of Austria’s waltz king Johann Strauss II - revered like a modern-day pop star during his lifetime - his music has lost none of its magic.

Yolande Du Preez|Published

Kenya’s HIV patients victims of US aid freeze

Millions in East Africa rely for their treatment on PEPFAR, a scheme launched by then-US president George W Bush in 2003.

Yolande Du Preez|Published

Ha Ha - laughter museum blows away the blues

A new museum of laughter is offering to put people through the spinner to wash away the negativity of modern life.

Yolande Du Preez|Published

Africa’s ‘bold generation’ see bright future at home

African students from Generation Z display a realistic optimism and a desire to transform their countries.

Yolande Du Preez|Published

Why Trump wants to get his paws on Greenland

Trump is not the first US politician to try to buy Greenland

The Conversation|Published

The DRC’s historic case against Apple over blood minerals

THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has filed criminal cases against Apple, accusing the US-based global tech giant of fueling the war against the country’s eastern region by using in its products what have been deemed “blood minerals”.

Published

US flounders in global digital ranking, while economies that have embraced emerging technology rank high

Gaps in broadband access and other digital disparities identified in the data threaten to further fragment the global economic competitiveness scene

Editorial|Published

No rule book in Africa’s game of democracy

In Kenya, the spectrum of dissatisfaction with the government continues to threaten the nation's heartbeat. And this week, post-election protests in Mozambique claimed at least eleven lives.

Opinion|Published