Sanef has urged stakeholders, including government, corporates and individual citizens, to support the embattled media industry. Primedia is the latest media house to announce possible retrenchments. The South African National Editors' Forum has raised concerns about the growing number of publications announcing job cuts amid the Covid-19 pandemic.The forum has appealed to stakeholders, the government and…
Unisa's language policy to remove Afrikaans teaching in 2016 was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Appeal.The court found that Unisa "failed to establish that it was not reasonably practicable to continue offering tuition in Afrikaans".Here is why the court ruled Unisa's language policy to remove Afrikaans unconstitutional, but constitutional at UFS and US.The…
'That's when I realised I was going to get a hiding' - journalist on alleged ordeal with FS policeHe took the picture, planning ahead to include it in an article. "I was going to ask them, 'How are you doing?'," he said.However, he said, one of the police officers responded with a deeply offensive swear…
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same