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Trump makes his world collapse, plus five highlights from 'Vrye Weekblad' Here's what's hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 08 January 2021 - 07:44 By TimesLIVE Police confront supporters of President Donald Trump as they demonstrate on the second floor of the US Capitol after breaching security defences on January 6. Image: Reuters/Mike Theiler The right wing protest in Washington DC was ignited by lies and conspiracy theories and a narcissistic psychopath who can't deal with the fact that he lost the election. President Donald Trump's reck...

Here's what's hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 23 December 2020 - 07:31 By TimesLIVE 2020 was quite a year. Image: 123rf/Ivan Zamurovic What are they going to say about the strange and traumatic year that was? Of course they will talk about the coronavirus. Maybe they will have forgotten about the silly ban on tobacco and alcohol, Woolies chicken and open-toed shoes. However, the fear of an invisible enemy that used human interaction to threaten our lives will never be forgotten. We won't forget how we wore masks and washed our hands obsessi...

Two international drug dealing cases that have unfolded in the US have something specific in common aside from allegations of sprawling narcotics networks — both have links firmly anchored in South Africa. In the one case, that culminated in Cuban drug dealer Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido being sentenced to five years in jail earlier this month, it was alleged that he fled the US in 1997 and based himself in South Africa, from where he resumed his drug operations. The second case centres on Indian drug kingpin Vijaygiri “Vicky” Goswami who, along with others including two brothers from Ke...

And here's the second wave, plus five highlights from 'Vrye Weekblad' Here's what's hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly 18 December 2020 - 07:54 By TimesLIVE We are officially in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in SA. Image: 123RF/perig76 A full-scale second wave has crashed over three provinces and a fourth is nearly there. Hospitals in two provinces are fuller than ever — almost as full as the parties some people are throwing at the moment. How bad can it get?  The SA Covid-19 Modelling Consortium has released a new data dashb...