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Sim Tshabalala, Standard Bank Group Chief Executive.
AFRICAN BANKS

Forbes names Standard Bank as one of the world’s best employers

The bank makes it a hat-trick of international recognition

  • Standard Bank
1 min read
Sim Tshabalala, Group Chief Executive for Standard Bank Group.
BEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD

Time magazine recognises Standard Bank as one of the World’s Best Companies

Newsweek accords the bank the status of one of the World’s Most Trustworthy Companies

  • Standard Bank
1 min read
Economic inequalities in South Africa are becoming a major determinant of mental health, with poverty; poor living conditions; limited access to healthcare and education; workplace stress; social exclusion and historical trauma contributing to higher rates of depression and anxiety. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ASYMPTOMATIC

Target poor populations with meaningful measures other than lockdown

Low and no-income people are the hardest hit by Covid-19. Isolation is near impossible in places like townships. Rather lift them out of poverty

  • Charles R Stith
6 min read
Last resort: The World Bank, seen in discussion above, in 2013. (Stephen Jaffe/IMF/Getty Images)
BAN KI MOON

How do we get beyond ‘business as usual’ after the pandemic?

Charles Eisenstein’s book, Sacred Economics, offers some practical alternatives to neoliberal capitalism

  • Bert Olivier
9 min read
Ressa and the site have been hit with multiple counts of misleading the government on taxes, and if convicted on one count alone she faces up to a decade behind bars. (Time Magazine)
JAMAL KHASHOGGI

From wars to Duterte: Journalist ‘holds the line’

Maria Ressa’s news site, Rappler, has taken a critical stand on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti-drug crackdown

  • Ayee Macaraig
3 min read
More Than Me founder Katie Meyler speaks at the 2015 PTTOW! Annual Summit at Terrenea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. (Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)
GEORGE WEAH
Video

Liberia probes US charity in wake of sexual allegations

The CEO of the charity organisation has stepped down as Liberians express outrage at the assault of young girls under her watch

  • Mashadi Kekana
3 min read
France’s Kylian Mbappe during training. (Reuters/Stephane Mahe)
2018 FIFA WORLD CUP

Mbappé is Time magazine’s ‘Future of Soccer’

Mbappe became the youngest French goalscorer in World Cup history when he struck in a 1-0 win over Peru in the group stages

  • Agency
2 min read
There are experiences she embodied that are intimate to many women in this country
BBC

Even in death, Mam’ Winnie can’t catch a break

Let Mam’ Winnie rest in peace

  • Raeesa Pather
4 min read
Face of Ebola: Salome Karwah survived the killer disease but died after giving birth to her fourth child (Zoom Dosso/AFP/Getty Images)
BODY LANGUAGE

The hard labour of pregnancy

Maternal mortality is rising in developing countries —and in the United States

  • Kiri Rupiah
4 min read
United States president-elect Donald Trump on the cover of Time Magazine after being named its person of the year.
ADOLF HITLER

Time Magazine names Donald Trump person of the year

The United States president-elect says the accolade means a lot to him.

  • Susan Heavey
2 min read
The virus takes its name from the Ebola River, near the site of one of the first recorded outbreaks in what is now the DRC, in 1976.
EBOLA

Time names Ebola fighters as ‘person’ of 2014

Time magazine has elected the medics treating Ebola patients in West Africa and other parts of the world as its Person of the Year for 2014.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
The ANCYL says that the way Thuli Madonsela had handled the investigation into Nkandla compromised the outcome.
NKANDLA

Madonsela listed among Time’s 100 most influential people

Public protector Thuli Madonsela features on the Time 100, Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Pope Francis attracted both admiration and criticism during his tenure, with some criticising him because he disrupted the foundations of their sense of security — which are their empires.
CATHOLIC CHURCH

Time names Pope Francis as Person of the Year

Time magazine has named Pope Francis its Person of the Year, saying he shifted the message of the Catholic Church.

  • Reuters
2 min read
Time names ‘protester’ person of the year
PERSON OF THE YEAR

Time names ‘protester’ person of the year

The collective ‘protester’ is <em>Time</em> magazine’s person of the year, citing change brought by movements from Arab countries to New York.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
DANIEL TROTTA

Time names Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the Facebook social networking site, was named <i>Time</i> magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year on Wednesday.

  • Daniel Trotta
2 min read