EDITOR’S COMMENT
From our desks to yours, here’s wishing you and everyone in your ambit, a happy, healthy, productive, and successful 2022!
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tarting 2022 with a bang It would be an understatement to say that the new year has started with a bang (and I’m not talking about Catherine Wheels and other traditional fireworks). In South Africa, we’ve seen Parliament burn, the Constitutional Court physically attacked, some of our judges verbally attacked by a sitting minister, and the handing over of the first of the three reports into state capture by Judge Raymond Zondo to
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President Cyril Ramaphosa. The controversial AARTO (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act) has been ruled unconstitutional and invalid by the Pretoria High Court, there have been two more Constitutional Court judge appointments, all provinces are alleged to have peaked in terms of the fourth wave of Covid-19, and the Moti family – whose four sons were kidnapped and then thankfully returned physically unharmed – have reportedly relocated to Dubai. We also buried Nobel prize winner and anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, the British prime minister has come under fire for partying during hard lockdown, apologising to the country’s beleaguered monarch who is also dealing with the fallout from court cases linking one of her sons to sexual assault. Tennis champion Novak Djokovic has lost his fight to play in the Australian Open as a result of his refusal to champion Covid vaccinations, concerns are rising that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine,
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Beijing has pretty much locked down in its bid to attain a zero-Covid rating in time for the February Winter Olympics in China next month, Meta (Facebook) is facing billions worth of fines if it’s found guilty of exploiting user data, YouTube’s also come under intense fire on the back of allegations of disinformation, and former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to end his corruption trial via plea bargain. People are taking to the streets in their thousands globally to protest against mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations, Nigeria, Somalia and other countries are reeling from unending violence, and North Korea has reportedly been testing railway-borne missiles.
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