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The woman on the front line, plus five highlights from 'Vrye Weekblad' Here's what's hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 12 March 2021 - 06:47 By TimesLIVE Prof Glenda Gray. Image: Supplied No-one has done more than the vaccine hunter, doctor and researcher, Prof Glenda Gray, to lead SA through the destructive first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic shocked us out of our comfort zone, Gray tells Elsabé Brits in the latest issue of Vrye Weekblad. “It got us to do the kind of work we were made to do. Some of my colleagues say w...

Zuma was our Putin, our Mugabe, plus five highlights from 'Vrye Weekblad' Here's what's hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 29 January 2021 - 07:37 By TimesLIVE Former South African president Jacob Zuma turned the State Security Agency into his own intelligence structures, the Zondo commission heard this week. Image: Kim Ludbrook/Pool via REUTERS Who'd have thought that something like this was possible in SA, a country with a strong constitution and an open society? For more than five years SA was without an SSA, a state security agency. The...

Don’t be fooled by the rand, plus five highlights from 'Vrye Weekblad' Here's what's hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 22 January 2021 - 07:13 By TimesLIVE The rand is giving us a false sense of security. Image: Karen Moolman The movement of the rand against the US dollar in 2020 is a striking example of how difficult it is for economists and investors to predict the future value of exchange rates. This is especially true in times of great uncertainty for the world economy. The rand closed just this side of R14/$ on December 31 2019. By...