Romans sick of the corruption and crime cleaned up their own streets; a new startup aims to be the Airbnb of the coming kitchen-based sharing economy; and animals are learning how to dismantle their traps.
South Africa’s seven biggest vehicle producers have invested at least 24 billion rand in their plants in the past five years, helping to boost domestic output by about 30 percent [Image: Ford]Ford Motor Co. will invest 2.5 billion rand ($170 million) in expanding its South African operations and creating about 1200 jobs in the country.
4.83/5 (6) This is already shaping up to be one of the strangest periods for news in recent memory, for consider only the recent revelations from Israel's Ha Aretz that it had at one time hired…
The post TO DRONE, OR NOT TO DRONE: ISIS, ISRAEL, AND THE (OUT)HOUSE OF SAUD appeared first on Giza Death Star.
RT | March 31, 2016 Saudi Arabia announced that it is building a drone plant in cooperation with South Africa, but a well-known Saudi defense analyst claimed this is a guise to hide the clandestine purchases of aircraft from Israel. The analyst, who calls himself “Mujtahid” has been leaking exclusive information about the royal family […]
The ANC is unlikely to pressure Zuma to step down after the court decision [Xinhua]
South Africa’s 11-judge Constitutional Court – the country’s highest legal authority – has said that President Jacob Zuma was in breach of the constitution even after being ordered by a corruption investigation body to pay back $16 million in government funds he spent to renovate a personal home.
Zuma issued a statement reiterating his innocence in any wrongdoing, but his office later said that he would consider the ruling and then take appropriate action.
A foray of condemnations of the boycott of Israel seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others, to criminalize the boycott of Israel have hardly slowed down the momentum of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). On the contrary, it has accelerated.
4.89/5 (9) Yesterday I blogged about a report that allegedly was circulating in the Kremlin regarding GMOs, vaccinations, and the general state of the West's "food" sup;ly and "nutrition." In that blog, I raised again an…
The post THE GMO SCARPBOOK: INDIA CUTS ROYALTIES, MON(STER)SANTO THREATENS TO ... appeared first on Giza Death Star.
This week we take a look at the nefarious capitalist mechanism called free trade agreements, with a focus on world wide resistance to the TPP or Trans Pacific Partnership plus an update of anti-fascist resistance in Anaheim California.
On the music break, class war hip hop MC’s Emicia bring us Boa Esperança.
“Above all we need action, not just words”: Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan 24 February 2016
The real growth rate of the South African economy slowed to 1.3 per cent in 2015 from 1.5 per cent in 2014 and 2.2 per cent in 2013 and was the lowest since 2009 according to data released by Statistics South Africa.
HIV/Aids, Malaria and TB kill almost four million people a year , and represent a significant disease burden for low-income populations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia [Xinhua]South African President Jacob Zuma and his French counterpart Francois Hollande will head a new UN “High Level Commission on Health, Employment and Economic Growth”.
Zuma and Hollande were appointed by the United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon, said UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
