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The NPA and the Hawks are among the institutions to suffer budget cuts. How this can make sense at a time when so much loot is awaiting collection is difficult to fathom, writes Accountability Now director Paul Hoffman.
Satellite view of Hurricane Dorian off the east coast of Florida, September 3, 2019. (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East/Handout via Reuters) What do the research literature and government reports actually say about human-induced climate change and its consequences? Editor’s Note: The following are extracts from Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by Steven E. Koonin. The first two, which are brief, are from the introduction. One sets out the basic thesis of the book, and the other is a summary of Koonin’s background. The t...
As I write, in just over 12 hours since its official launch on May 4, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by physicist Steven E. Koonin, Ph.D., is number 15 on Amazon’s list of top-selling nonfiction books, the top-selling book on Amazon Kindle in Weather and Climatology, and the second-bestselling book in 21st Century World History. By the time this review reaches readers, Unsettled might well be the bestselling book in all three subcategories, crack the top 10 in the nonfiction category, and be among the top 100 in sales across all categories...
defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Heberon. It appears the senior command structure of the national defence force is not an active participant into an ongoing Public Protector (PP) investigation of how and why an unregistered Cuban drug was acquired by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The investigation by Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s office is one of three. The others are a task team appointed by Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and a SA Police Service (SAPS) one initiated by Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian Kobus Marais. Last week Marais told...
defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - A vial of Heberon. Feedback from one of three investigations underway into the acquisition, from Cuba, of an unregistered drug to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the national defence force indicates at present no response from the SA National Defence Force (SANDF). A senior investigator at the Office of the Public Protector, responding to Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian Kobus Marais on the investigation’s progress, said the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) answered an enquiry letter from the Chapter Nine institution as regards i...