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'We’re just waiting for him to die': Ex-GOP spox says party has no plan to purge itself of Donald Trump

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In his column for the Bulwark, former Republican National Committee spokesperson Tim Miller scorched the GOP for doing nothing to shed themselves of former President Donald Trump and instead just "humoring" him with the hope that he will go away . As Miller notes, immediately after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and ramped up his efforts to prove the election was stolen from him, an anonymous senior Republican official told the Washington Post, “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change,” before adding, “He went golfing this weekend. It’s not like he’s plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20. He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he’ll leave.” As Miller wryly noted, that prediction didn't age well as almost two months later Trump's election fraud claims culmi...

The Anthropocene apocalypse is upon us

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The past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal and France. London’s fire brigade experienced its busiest day since World War II. The U.K. saw its hottest day on record of 104.54 Fahrenheit. In China, more than a dozen cities issued the “highest possible heat warning” this weekend with over 900 million people in China enduring a scorching heat wave along with severe flooding and landslides across large swathes of southern China. Dozens of people have died. Millions of Chinese have been displaced. Economic losses run into the billions of yuan. Droughts, which have destroyed crops, killed livestock and forced many to flee their homes, are creating a potential famine in the Horn of Africa. More than 100 million people in the United States are under heat alerts in more than two dozen states from temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s and low 100s. Wildfires have destroyed thousands of acres in California . More than 73 ...

From South Africa to the world: Could Tashas be the next Nandos? July 25, 2022 at 07:00AM

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Natasha Sideris, the founder and chief executive of Tashas Group, details the group’s expansion plans in the United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom The post From South Africa to the world: Could Tashas be the next Nandos? appeared first on The Mail & Guardian .

News24.com | Car chase, shootout as police arrest two more for robbery at Limpopo police station

Two people have been arrested in connection with a robbery at a Limpopo police station. This brings the number of arrests to 12. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/YkDVvgA via sinceretalk

Water apartheid alive and well in Nelson Mandela Bay July 25, 2022 at 07:00AM

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Municipality guilty of discrimination as townships run dry while middle-class suburbs are unaffected by the crisis The post Water apartheid alive and well in Nelson Mandela Bay appeared first on The Mail & Guardian .

How the ‘Chris Hani cabal’ outmanoeuvred Paul Mashatile at ANC KZN conference July 25, 2022 at 06:53AM

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Cyril Ramaphosa’s key allies believe the Mashatile faction used the provincial sentiment to make the president look bad by advising him not to make an appearance The post How the ‘Chris Hani cabal’ outmanoeuvred Paul Mashatile at ANC KZN conference appeared first on The Mail & Guardian .

Businessinsider.co.za | How Chinese traditional medicine is fuelling the illegal donkey skin trade in SA, via Lesotho

The skins get stewed and or soaked to extract the gluey substance. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/6NG9R78 via sinceretalk