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This is why Hitler-hailing attention seekers are so dangerous in South Africa

15 April 2021
In 1990 a little-known lawyer called Mike Godwin noticed that in the early days of the internet, people in online forums would eventually resort to calling the other side Nazis. ..
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This is why Hitler-hailing attention seekers are so dangerous in SA

Mcebo Dlamini and Lwazi Lushaba knew exactly what they were doing, and progressives must unequivocally reject them
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In 1990 a little-known lawyer called Mike Godwin noticed that in the early days of the internet, people in online forums would eventually resort to calling the other side Nazis.
Today we have Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”..
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Consumers ditch the sweet life after sour taste of sugar tax bites

Consumers ditch the sweet life after sour taste of sugar tax bites
Study finds that since the introduction of a ‘sugar tax’, sales of sugar-sweetened beverages have dropped
11 April 2021 - 17:57
Things are not so sweet in the sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) industry after a study found consumption dwindled after the implementation, in 2018, of SA’s “sugar tax”.
The study (https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196%2820%2930304-1) was published last week in Lancet Planetary Health. It was compiled by the South African Medical Research Council’s Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (Priceless-SA) in the School of Public Health at Johannesburg’s Wits University and the University of the Western Cape (UWC), in partnership with the University of North Carolina in the US. .. ....

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Police officers accused of Mthokozisi Ntumba murder to remain behind bars

Police officers accused of Mthokozisi Ntumba murder to remain behind bars
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Sinethemba Madolo
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The video footage of the killing of Mthokozisi Ntumba will form the basis of the state’s case, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday.
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The four police officers accused of killing the 35-year-old man appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday.

The suspects are charged with murder, three counts of attempted murder and defeating the ends of justice.

The state told the court that, since the matter is a schedule five offence, the onus would be on the accused to prove to the court that they deserve bail. ....

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Nzimande: Securing extra NSFAS funding 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'

Nzimande: Securing extra NSFAS funding ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’
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Neo Motloung
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Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande has warned that securing extra funding to erase the shortfall at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme s (NSFAS) will rob the poor of services.
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The minister briefed the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology in Parliament amid the ongoing protests by students on Wednesday morning.

This while the shortfall at Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges amount is just under R1 billion.

We are gonna be taking R2.49 billion from very important grants that we give to the universities. We then also are taking R500 million, half a billion Rands from TVET infrastructure, which was mainly meant to build news residents for TVET colleges. ....

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