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New feathers for an ailing army, plus five highlights from ‘Vrye Weekblad’ Here’s what’s hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 23 April 2021 - 07:03 By TimesLIVE Some of the concept designs for the army's new outfits. Image: Supplied The SA National Defence Force is in a crisis, with unprecedented budget deficits assuming “critical proportions”, the defence minister complained earlier this year. But now, amid rickety equipment, too many ancient troops and not enough money to train younger ones, a brand-new army uniform complete wi...

Msholozi’s 'long walk to jail', plus five highlights from ‘Vrye Weekblad’ Here’s what’s hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 16 April 2021 - 06:48 By TimesLIVE Former president Jacob Zuma has refused to obey the highest court in the land over his decision not to co-operate with the state capture inquiry. Image: SANDILE NDLOVU Jacob Zuma in an orange jumpsuit in cell seven with a tin plate and a toilet in one corner would be the logical and poetical conclusion of a long career of mismanagement, abuse of power, corruption and state ca...

Here’s what’s hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 09 April 2021 - 06:36 By TimesLIVE President Cyril Ramaphosa continues to navigate the political minefield of leading the ANC. Image: MARK ANDREWS President Cyril Ramaphosa has no hope of rescuing SA from the state capture swamp unless he tidies up the scrapyard of his own political home, writes Piet Croucamp in today’s new issue of Vrye Weekblad. There is a quite understandable but unwise fixation in white Pretoria and the media with the process of decapturing the state under Cyril Ramaph...

More carnage coming in Moz, plus five highlights from ‘Vrye Weekblad’ Here’s what’s hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 02 April 2021 - 08:16 By TimesLIVE People wait for friends and relatives as a ship carrying more than 1,000 people fleeing an attack claimed by Islamic State-linked insurgents on the town of Palma, docks in Pemba, Mozambique, on April 1. Image: REUTERS/EMIDIO JOZINE The attack on the town of Pemba in northern Mozambique is a significant change in the strategy of Islamic insurgents. And experts warn that it is a cat...

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...