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CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

There is no place for scab labour in SA

Replacement labour, which stands to prolong industrial action and lockouts, undermines the right to strike

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned on Thursday. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
ALISON THEWLISS

Did Liz Truss mislead the public about her husband’s secretive work?

As the prime minister fights to remain in power, deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner demands she come clean over her interests

  • Ruby Lott-Lavigna
6 min read
“You have asked me to stand aside as your chancellor. I have accepted.” (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
KWASI KWARTENG

UK’s Truss fires finance minister as economic plan in tatters

British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday dismissed her finance minister, forcing Kwasi Kwarteng to carry the can for turmoil

  • Jitendra Joshi
4 min read
Building wealth: UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and chancellor of the exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, who announced unfunded tax cuts of £45-billion for the rich. Photo: Dylan Martinez/Getty
GLOBAL RECESSION

Rate hikes are the wrong medicine

The government should rather consider a targeted approach to reducing inflation

  • Duma Gqubule
12 min read
Britain’s King Charles III attends the Presentation of Addresses by both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall, inside the Palace of Westminster, central London on September 12, 2022 in London. Photo: Getty Images
BARNEY BARNATO

For Africans, the British empire was neither benign nor good

Britain consolidated its rapacious theft of territories in Africa and Asia during the reign of Elizabeth II’s great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

  • Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
9 min read