[email protected]. View the stories and images https://www.thekeyidea.org/ -- Lenore Lyons, Founder, The Key IdeaDear Lenore: Thank you for sharing all these wonderful tidbits. You are doing an important service in documenting what it’s like to be alive in 2020.View prior ‘Dear Annie’ columns“Ask Me Anything: A Year of Advice From Dear Annie” is out now! Annie…
A former CDC official criticizes the agency over its latest reversal, this time in guidance on how the coronavirus is transmitted. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images A former CDC official criticizes the agency over its latest reversal, this time in guidance on how the coronavirus is transmitted. Kevin…
Former ANC youth league leader and councillor Andile Lungisa has begun serving his two-year jail term on Thursday. Meanwhile, Lungisa has applied to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal his sentence, after his applications to the lower courts failed. The NPA will oppose his application for bail, pending the outcome of the leave to…
Zimbabwe’s collapse is epitomised by the woeful state of its health system, with hospitals beset by medicine shortages and recurrent strikes by nurses and doctors over pay and working conditions.Funding cutbacks have left schools without essential teaching materials and demotivated staff, some of whom skip classes to work second jobs to try and make ends…
By Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporterRaleigh, N.C. — Gov. Roy Cooper is candidate Roy Cooper again, running for re-election after a four-year term marked by power struggles with the General Assembly's Republican majority. Early in his term, the state repealed House Bill 2, the notorious law that restricted transgender access to public bathrooms and blocked…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…