Khomotso Phahlane. (Lindile Mbontsi, City Press) The former acting national police commissioner has been axed from SAPS, according to a media report.SAPS could not confirm or deny the report.Phahlane was suspended in June 2017 and is currently facing fraud and forgery charges relating to an R86m tender.Former acting national police commissioner General Khomotso Phahlane has…
Former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that while children may not suffer from coronavirus to the same degree as adults, there is still a lot of unknowns when it comes to how they are affected and having kids in school this fall could prove difficult in some places.In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Frieden…
A former policeman and alleged kingpin of a rhino poaching syndicate in Mpumalanga has been rearrested.The arrest is connected to a body that was found floating in the Bushbuckridge Dam in Limpopo. Earlier this year, the murder docket was handed over to Mpumalanga's specialised tracking team.A former policeman and alleged kingpin of a rhino poaching syndicate…
Former SSA director-general Sonto Kudjoe has been appointed secretary for defence.Current defence secretary Sam Gulube will retire at the end of July - and Kudjoe will start on 1 August.Kudjoe also served as South Africa's ambassador to Sweden and Egypt.President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed former State Security Agency (SSA) boss Sonto Kudjoe as the new secretary for…
Johan Goosen scores a try against Australia in 2016. PHOTO: Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images Former Springbok rugby player Johan Goosen is being sued for damages following a shooting accident in 2017. A claim of R9 million has been instituted against Goosen by his friend and former employee, Armandt Stoman. Stoman was shot in the leg and…
Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Heights (1939) United Artists Laurence Olivier’s performance embodies Heathcliff’s dichotomy of hard and soft. Oliver’s presence on screen is distinguished and sympathetic, given his deep, dark eyes, knife-sharp jaw, and a background in Shakespearean productions that made him a household name. In the 1930s, masculinity was in a crisis (Isn’t it always?).
4 min read The following story contains spoilers for The Pitt season 2, episode 6, "12:00 P.M." LIKE SO MANY other viewers of The Pitt, I watched the show's first season in a binge. And for a show that's so fast-paced and where each episode truly bleeds directly into the next, that felt right. For
6 min read Kimmie Ng, M.D., a Boston oncologist, started noticing an alarming trend in her work a few years ago. Men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s—runners, CrossFitters, lifelong nonsmokers—were streaming through her door at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They all appeared lively and strong—yet there they were, battling colorectal cancers, a family of