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Photo: Depositphotos.com A long-awaited report commissioned by Dutch gymnastics federation KNGU into the scale and nature of abuse in gymnastics has shown that former top athletes in particular have been the victim of ‘transgressive behaviour’, meriting apologies, after care and compensation. Two thirds of the former athletes participating in the survey, carried out by professor of sports law Marjan Olfers and criminologist Anton van Wijk following last year’s allegations of abuse, said they had been subjected to behaviour which broke moral and social boundaries. The problems ranged fro...

Landlords need to step up their game when attracting, managing, and retaining tenants Share The South African rental market is under pressure as many good tenants step up to property ownership and a large proportion of those left behind are struggling with their finances. This means landlords are having to step up their game when attracting, managing, and retaining tenants who are able to honour their leases and look after their properties. Tenant payment performance is improbving in the residential tenant population but a full recovery to pre-lockdown levels is yet to be achieved, says Miche...

Plans for European Hydrogen Backbone expanded Ambitious plans to create a dedicated hydrogen transport infrastructure in Europe have been expanded. Originally unveiled in July 2020 by 11 European gas infrastructure companies from nine EU members states, the European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB) report has now expanded to nearly 40,000km covering 11 new countries, with 12 European gas TSOs joining the EHB initiative. With recent technological advancements in the field of hydrogen, the pipeline now requires lower investment costs and also now utilises two-thirds of repurposed natural gas pipelines,...

The European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB) initiative has proposed a hydrogen network of 39,700 kilometres by 2040 to connect 21 European countries, with further growth expected after 2040.

“This is why the alerts extend beyond the time of the first wave,” he said. Supplied/Stuff University of Auckland associate professor Kasper van Wijk says people should not relax just because first wave times have passed. Make-up of shoreline affects wave size Lane said the make-up of a shoreline can multiply or reduce the size of the waves. “Often the places where there are larger tsunami responses are places where you get resonance in bays or harbours,” she said. “Every bay and harbour have resonances to do with how long it takes waves to travel to the far end and back.