Luke Fraser – 22 Jun 2024 South Africa has the worst income inequality in the world, with the disparity between the top and bottom earners widening since the end of apartheid. According to Imraan Valodia, the Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at Wits, when looking at wealth in the country, the top…
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Namibië wys ons hoe dinge in SA anders en beter kan wees
Piet Croucamp – 5 JANUARIE 2024 Tydens ‘n onlangse besoek het PIET CROUCAMP besef daar is meer as een rede om optimisties te wees oor die toekoms van Namibië. Daar is ook ‘n paar lesse wat Suid-Afrika by haar bure noord van die Oranjerivier kan leer. DIE aanhaling “As jy nie ‘n optimis is nie, gee…
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Google’s greenhouse gas emissions are soaring thanks to AI
The Google Bay View campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Mike Kai Chen/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File Clare Duffy, CNN – 3 July 2024 New YorkCNN — As Google has rushed to incorporate artificial intelligence into its core products — with sometimes less-than-stellar results — a problem has been brewing behind the scenes: the systems needed to…
Should I worry about microplastics?
Joel Snape – 4 Feb 2024 These tiny particles are polluting the planet, including our bodies. How bad for us are they really? Microplastics are everywhere. These tiny pieces of plastic – the usual definition is anything under 5mm in length – are a by-product of the over-production of synthetic polymers, and there is increasing…
The surprising ways microplastics enter our body
WATCH VIDEO One study found it’s possible we could ingest upwards of a credit card’s worth of plastic in just a week. Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how all that plastic could be getting inside us and ways to reduce your exposure.
APARTHEID OFFICES IN OBSERVATORY THE BANTU ADMINISTRATION COMMISSIONER (CAPE PENINSULA)
Summary of an article by Lalou Meltzer in the Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 78, no. 1, June 2024 It is a surprise for many to learn that an apartheid administration and pass control office once existed in the residential southern suburb of Observatory in Cape Town. Its exact location has…
Friends of the Liesbeek appreciation!
An Obs local submitted this: Morning all. I went down to the river yesterday and it was clearly time for my annual Friends of the Liesbeek appreciation! From the initial building of the reed bed as a flooding overflow to last years wet land (in front of the Wild Fig) to divert high water away…
Ward Committee 57 resignation
Councillor Yusuf Mohamed – Ward 57 7 July 2024 Resignation from Ward Committee 57 I am writing to formally resign from the Ward Committee 57 with immediate effect. My decision is based on the following critical issues: 1. Exclusion of Civic Bodies: The public refusal by you at a Salt River Public Meeting held on…