New legislation and proposed legislation aim to limit political influence in government departments and to protect whistleblowers. However, writes Busisiwe Mavuso, they don’t go far enough. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/1QHjtlC via sinceretalk
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News24 | Trump ‘not a big fan’ of Pope Leo XIV who made plea for peace
US President Donald Trump told reporters that he is “not a big fan” of Pope Leo XIV, after the global leader of Catholics made a plea for peace. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/1xtyIoA via sinceretalk
News24 | DA is not a ‘whites-only’ party: Clear messaging will attract black voters, says delegates
As the DA concludes its federal congress with a renewed focus on attracting a diverse pool of voters, black delegates argue that the party’s challenge lies not in appealing to black voters but in overcoming what they describe as “stigma” and narratives propagated by political opponents. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/ipMQyK6 via sinceretalk
Change is coming as Trump awakens a sleeping giant
The past terrifying week has caused me to wonder: How did America ever get to a point where one man, backed by the military might of the United States, could credibly threaten death to an entire civilization? I’m also wondering how 19 super-rich American households could have added $1.8 trillion to their wealth in just the last 24 months — roughly the size of the economy of Australia — while the rate of child poverty in the U.S. has more than doubled , from a low of 5.2 percent in 2021 to over 13 percent now? How have we come so perilously close to climate catastrophe, with spring temperatures in the Western United States already shattering records — and yet governments are spending over a trillion dollars a year subsidizing the fossil fuel industry and banks have channeled over $3 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement, while there are almost no funds to protect living ecosystems? How have we allowed artificial intelligence, the most powerful technology the ...
News24 | DA congress: DA youth leader shoots down anti-GNU grumblings
Acting DA federal youth leader, Ndipiwe Olayi, believes that for South Africa to be saved from the abyss, the DA ought to remain in the government of national unity (GNU). from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/loEfi42 via sinceretalk
News24 | Mpumalanga police probe incident after cop caught on video beating man at Volksrust station
Mpumalanga police are conducting both internal and criminal investigations into a constable who was caught on camera attacking a man at the Volksrust police station. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/x1veDJ7 via sinceretalk
Southern Republican torn apart for 'abject' Trump bootlicking
A hometown columnist in deep-red Louisiana is showing no mercy to a Republican U.S. Representative who appears to be "the new leader in the contest for which U.S. Senate candidate in Louisiana’s Republican primary can show the most abject toadyism to President Donald Trump." “Sometimes Trump is right, but when he is wrong, he can be spectacularly wrong,” reports Baton Rouge Advocate columnist Quin Hillyer. “It takes a special level of toadyism to campaign as if it’s a virtue to support one of Trump’s most spectacularly wrong choices. U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) is currently blasting her incumbent opponent, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) for delaying a hearing on Trump’s nomination of Casey Means for surgeon general, even though Means has never been licensed as a physician. [Means] has so many oddball beliefs, both personal and medical, that she might as well be an AI-generated caricature,” said Hillyer. “Even one of the wackiest members of MAGA-world, conspiracy theorist...