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Always armed with a ‘glass half full’ outlook, even optimist Rob Opie admits that 2020 wasn’t an easy year for anybody. Covid-19, continuous corruption and a downtrodden economy are reason enough for any South African to have a despondent outlook on the future of the country. As the Covid-19 infections are on the rise – and the vaccine outrage continues – it would seem that 2021 isn’t off to a good start, either. Opie, however, is confident in his positive forecast. Below, the brand...

Thursday, December 24 Christmas Eve: A time for family, feasting — and a drag show. Palace, Ocean Drives iconic gay bar, restaurant, and drag performance venue, hosts its Christmas Eve Drag Show on Thursday. Resident DJ Cesar Hernandez will be in charge of the ones and twos, with local drag queen Poison Ivy Lords acting as the emcee, performing alongside Shanaya Bright, Yesia Jovovich, and Olga Dantelly, all of whom will be serving the Christmas-themed realness. Admission is free, but reserv...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Water Scarcity Threat To India and South Africa More than a third of India’s electricity supply is at risk from water scarcity, which also threatens urban life in parts of South Africa. By Alex Kirby Water scarcity is now a real threat in two developing countries at the forefront of eff...

Dimming the sun ‘could cut drought risk by 90 per cent’ Reducing drought risk. Copyright: Image by _Marion from Pixabay Speed read Study assesses the potential of blocking the sun with aerosols to reduce drought risks Dimming the sun could reduce drought risk by 90 per cent by the end of the century, says simulation study But the outcome could be double-edged sword for global South, says an expert Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in prin...

Review: Cyberpunk 2077 Developer: CD Projekt RED Cyberpunk augmented by popularity of The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 has been one of the most anticipated games for some time now. Having Keanu Reeves make a surprise appearance at E3 2019 to reveal that he would be playing an in-game character did nothing except fan the flames of excitement over CD Projekt Red’s futuristic title. Originally announced in 2012 and after facing several delays this year it seemed like Cyberpunk 2077 would neve...

WATCH | Western Capes largest dam overflows for the first time in six years Just two years ago, Theewaterskloof Dam was less than 13% full Lwandile Bhengu"> By Lwandile Bhengu - 04 October 2020 - 12:03 The Theewaterskloof Dam in the Western Cape is overflowing for the first time in six years. Image: Water and sanitation department / via Twitter For the first time in nearly six years, the Western Capes largest dam, Theewaterskloof, is overflowing. This comes after...

Raised in isolation at Heavenly Shepherd, her family’s trailer-dealership-turned-survival compound, Ami Miles knows that she was lucky to be born into a place of safety after the old world ended and the chaos began. But when her grandfather brings home a cold-eyed stranger, she realizes that her “destiny” as one of the few females capable of still bearing children isn’t something she’s ready to face. With the help of one of her aunts, she flees the only life she’s ever known and set...

Now, a reference to the longtime effort once championed by now president trump to paint president obama as un-american. >> -- made it here to washington, d.c. for what i am lovingly calling congress camp, day zero. people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes. >> reporter: ocasio cortez supports liberal policies that some even within her own party see as pie in the sky. and it made her a favorite target of republicans. >> alexandria ocasio cortez, constantly wrong but never...

We are hahave received dram video to show you. you see cars and homes being washed away, this as raging floodwaters push through in northwestern argentina. >> reports say 10,000 were forced to evacuate their homes when a river burst its banks. and as you can see, some had to be pulled from the rushing water. and the water crisis in cape town is already a crisis fair to say, but its 4 million residents are facings possibility of a full blown catastrophe temperature in a little more than two mon...

The 4 million residents of capetown are staring down a painful reality. in a little more than two months, the south african city could run out of water. people are waiting in long lines stockpiling for the so-called day zero. some are building rationing systems for their homes. >> the city restricted residents to 13 gallons, about 50 liters of water a day from mu nnicipal sources. the industrial area around johannesburg could face shortages because of low levels in the reservoirs. >> we have a r...