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A picture of a UN peacekeeper standing next to a sign and inadvertently creating the words “Uninvolved in Peace” has been shared in multiple posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit. The photo has circulated online for years, recently appearing in posts from Singapore and Myanmar. But the claim is misleading: the picture was staged as part of an ad campaign for a South

The executive director of UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor, said volunteers were still needed to help salvage and remove works in the Jagger Library in the wake of the recent fire that swept across Table Mountain. The University of Cape Town’s Jagger Reading Room was left in ruins after a wildfire destroyed the facility. (Photo: Gallo Images / Die Burger / Jaco Marais) “Volunteers are needed to help move vulnerable materials to a safer location. They can use this link to register and get more i...

232 snakes caught in Worcester over seven months Updated Scenic Drive With Rian Facebook/ Silverfox Snake Rescues More than 230 snakes were caught by Silverfox Snake Rescues in Worcester in the Western Cape from September 15 last year until Tuesday this week. According to the information on Silverfox Snake Rescues Facebook page, 60% of all the snakes were highly venomous.  The snakes were caught from houses, gardens, and vehicles.  Some of the deadliest snakes, like the Cape Cobra, were cau...

weekly newspaper. For the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa, the halls of the country’s hospitals were filled with hope again as health workers welcomed the roll-out of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and lined up to get their jab. Health workers were feeling a mixture of hope and reticence, psychiatrist Dr Zukiswa Zingela said on Friday. Zingela started Team Sisonke during the pandemic, a project to support the mental health of healthcare workers while ...

The Covid-19 economic slowdown hit at a time when print media was already battling lower circulation and revenue numbers, forcing some titles to reconsider the ownership of poor-performing titles, cut jobs and temporarily slash salaries.

Mark Lifman leaves the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on 22 December 2020. (Photo: Adrian de Kock) On Tuesday Mark Lifman and Jerome “Donkie” Booysen, who were arrested in December and released on bail, appeared again in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court in connection with the 18 August 2017 murder of international steroid smuggler Brian Wainstein. A third suspect who would have appeared with them – William “Red” Stevens, widely known as one of the Western Cape’s most seasoned 27s ...

After two failed pretrial conferences in the Western Cape High Court to ensure that all documents relating to the case were in order and legal representations sorted out, a trial date for murder accused Moyhdian Pangarker has not been set. On Wednesday, the pre-trial conference was postponed to 19 March due to the unavailability of Pangarker’s legal representative. However, despite the delays Pangarker will get his day in the dock where he will plead to the 20 charges he faces. These include ...

All panellists wish to state that they have learnt in the course of this Inquiry that the current system of self- or co-regulation of the print and online media and by the broadcasting industry appears to be working well and to the benefit of the South African democracy. 18/1/2020 Few commercial sectors engaged in the level of introspection and self-regulation as the Fourth Estate and the two and a half year SANEF commission of inquiry into ethical challenges facing South African journalism sho...

WhatsApp The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) deeply mourns the deaths of four journalists who died in the past week from Covid-19 complications. SANEF has learnt with great sadness of the passing of Sunday Independent news editor and investigative journalist Solly Maphumulo; Former Cape Argus photographer Enver Essop; resource coordinator in the SABC newsroom in KZN, Ismail Jinnah, and senior political journalist Knowledge Simelane of Ilanga Newspaper in KwaZulu-Natal. Solly Map...

Supplied by Esa Alexander The Cape Town media fraternity is devastated by the sudden death of renowned photographer, Enver Essop. Colleagues who he worked with over the years paid tribute to him as they came to terms with the loss of one of their own. Essop was buried in Cape Town on Tuesday.  The Cape Town media fraternity is devastated by the sudden death of renowned photographer Enver Essop.  "He was a very soft-hearted person," said Sunday Times photographer Esa Alexander.  Essop was p...