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New Lancet series warns ultra-processed foods are reshaping diets and fuelling global burden of disease | Daily Maverick <p>The launch of The Lancet’s new series on ultra-processed food is the largest study yet of the links between ultra-processed food and human health — and a call-to-arms. The series appeals to governm...

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Adèle Sulcas

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4 months ago

South Africa is catching up quickly to the global leaders in UPF consumption (UK and US), and its massive harms. Could The Lancet series on UPFs and human health spark ultra-processed food's "tobacco' moment? www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Stuart Johnson

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5 months ago

"One million – the number of seconds that make up approximately 11.5 days.
One billion seconds, however, is approximately 31.7 years."

Some perspective on how big the R49bn the Zuma's and Gupta's stole from South Africa really is.

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Adèle Sulcas

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6 months ago

South Africa’s pesticides regulations decades behind, say experts The verdict of the South African People’s Tribunal on Agrotoxins, triggered by the deaths of seven children in October last year, is due this month. The revelatory process has also shone the spotlight...

South Africa committed in 2010 to phase out 116 "highly hazardous pesticides" but by 2025 has banned only one, Terbufos. The health of farmworkers, the public, and the environment is at stake. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Bruno MacDonald

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6 months ago

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Leonie Joubert

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7 months ago

New evidence shows micro plastics being blown in over headwaters of 1 of SADC's most NB water catchments. It is to region what acid rain was to Europe in '80s. #DailyMaverick @dailymaverick.co.za @coveringclimatenow.org #plasticpollution #microplastics #plastictreaty

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Building a Career in Marketing The second session of the 2025 Marketing Masterclass series, hosted by Daily Maverick in partnership with eatbigfish Africa, the Association for Communication & Advertising (ACA), and the Marketing Association of South Africa (MASA), delved into what it takes to build a successful marketing career in today’s fast-changing world.

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8 months ago

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10 months ago

Agent Orange — cross-boundary cooperation is key to reversing the grasslands ‘tragedy of the commons’ Lives depend on keeping SA’s old-growth grasslands healthy. They feed our herds, they’re water factories and they mop up carbon pollution, which stabilises the climate. Protecting them from overuse, i...

Lives depend on keeping #Africa's old-growth #grasslands healthy.

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Big George

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11 months ago

Mediclinic claps back: ‘No directive to replace staff with AI’ Mediclinic has issued a formal response to reports about job cuts linked to its artificial intelligence strategy, and Daily Maverick has been given to understand that there is no specific directive where AI has been identified to replace full-time employees.

Mmm.... sounds like an AI wrote this response....

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Mediclinic claps back: ‘No directive to replace staff with AI’
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All Namibian News

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11 months ago

VAT court challenge stays; Treasury may drop increase: Three future GNU scenarios for SA Three scenarios ranked by Daily Maverick by what it means for you. The charts below show the parties in Parliament. Scenario 1 is the existing GNU. In Scenario 2, ActionSA and Bosa join the GNU and the DA leaves. In Scenario 3, the EFF is brought into government, along with ActionSA and Bosa, while the DA leaves. Note that these are moving scenarios in which much may change. Scenario 1 — the status quo holds This is Scenario 1, where the ANC and DA realise that while they don’t like each other, most South Africans support the GNU, and its establishment almost a year ago gave the country a fighting chance. The country risk standing has improved as has the investment outlook, although 14 attacks by US President Donald Trump’s administration have harmed economic prospects outside of a domestic scenario. This is the most likely scenario, but it can change. “We want to keep the GNU intact. [But] you can’t have the DA insulting the President [Cyril Ramaphosa] and other Cabinet members. At some point, it will break,” said an ANC-aligned official who is not in the talks but is close to them. Asked whether the GNU was at an “impasse”, he said the relationship was “beyond that” because the DA had taken the 0.5% VAT increase to court. The DA’s lawfare strategy, in which it fights politics in court, has worked well for the party, but in a GNU, the jury is out on whether you can be both partner and legal adversary so often. The parties are in a face-off on the Bela (Basic Education Laws Amendment) Act, the National Health Insurance Act and the Expropriation Act, which has modernised old land expropriation laws and made expropriation without compensation one possible measure after a long process set out in the law. No land in SA has been expropriated without compensation since 1994. “When they lose a debate, they go to court,” said the official, who added that these parallel processes would eventually see this GNU reach a breaking point. “No, we’re not going to withdraw our case, and it was not discussed at the weekend,” said DA spokesperson Willie Aucamp. The DA polls, which it takes regularly, show that its members and possible supporters approve the power-sharing arrangement of the centre of the political line with a reformist ANC. The party decided against a “hard exit” even after the fiscal framework was passed with parties outside the unity government. This fiscal framework is the first of three steps to get the Budget passed by 5 May, which is the date required by Parliament for the three pieces of Budget legislation to be approved. At the weekend, the chair of the DA’s Federal Council, Helen Zille, said, “The engagement [with the ANC] took place in a constructive atmosphere, with both sides speaking respectfully yet frankly about the need to resolve the impasse over the Budget and to enhance cooperation between the two parties in the context of the GNU.” Reports in the Sunday Times (paywalled) and News24 (paywalled) suggest the ANC may be giving way on the 0.5% VAT increase, which, in any event, is projected to raise only R13.5-billion in 2025/206. A well-versed source close to the National Treasury told Daily Maverick the ANC leadership could eat humble pie and a change was possible, even with just over two weeks before the VAT increase is due to kick in on 1 May. Benefits for you This scenario has the most significant benefit for South Africans as it is broad enough to develop consensus and ensure a measure of political competition that is good for the electorate. This is a good outcome if you’re concerned about stability and the possibility of growth and jobs. You may not have to pay the VAT increase if you’re a consumer. Risks for you The lead parties, the ANC and DA, don’t get on. The constant lawfare, squabbling and oneupmanship are painful and haven’t delivered the goods that stability promises. The parties are wide apart on education, health and land policies (often a proxy for housing) and have yet to reach across their divides. If you are registered for VAT, it may be chaotic to recalculate the percentage increases and time of settlement of everything from regular contracts to recurring contracts, lay-by agreements and property transactions. For more, see this detailed guide from SARS. Scenario 2 — drop the DA, bring in ActionSA and Bosa This was our lead scenario until the weekend, as ActionSA and Build One South Africa (Bosa) had joined the ANC to get the fiscal framework passed. The ANC and DA went bare-knuckled at each other, and the business-friendly Ramaphosa told the business community to stay in its lane when it implored the two parties, with the IFP, to “stay the course, stay in the room, hold the line, keep building and compromise”. It seemed the GNU in its original form had been roasted, but the main parties walked things back at the weekend. Whatever happens, it does seem that ActionSA and Bosa will join the GNU, widening it substantially. Benefits for you Not many. There aren’t enough big parties in this scenario to meaningfully share power. Risks for you While the political squabbling between the ANC and DA in government may stop, the political landscape will be more brittle as the DA brings out its top-drawer opposition politics. All the court battles will make governing an impossible logjam, and South Africa will enter an early electioneering phase as the DA goes into full battle a good year and a bit before the local government polls. There is no national progress as stasis sets in because the opposition parties can band together. Scenario 3 — a more populist GNU In Scenario 3, the EFF is brought into the government, along with ActionSA and Bosa, to form a more significant majority. This scenario is receding as an option because the EFF has joined the anti-VAT court action by the DA. (See this report by Victoria O’Regan.) It’s still not an impossible scenario because Deputy President Paul Mashatile is ascendant in the ANC as Ramaphosa’s time in power goes into the beginning of the end. Later this year, the ANC National General Council will conduct a mid-term review of the party between elective conferences. Because Ramaphosa is in his second term, it will be a council meeting where positioning for leadership starts. Mashatile said the DA had “positioned itself outside the GNU” (see this report for the transcript), a phrase which has come to define the talks about the future of the power-sharing arrangements. As the leader of the GNU business, he has not shaped the “clearing house” for conflicts. It is not run as a meaningful effort with a solutions-focused culture to make it work across challenging political divides. It’s no secret that Mashatile would prefer a different government, such as the one in Gauteng, where a minority government runs things. Benefits for you If you’re an EFF supporter, your party gets into government and can shape a radical agenda. However, if you live in Johannesburg or Ekurhuleni, you will know that such a coalition has few benefits. Risks for you Johannesburg’s government of local unity between the ANC, EFF, ActionSA and the Patriotic Alliance (with other minor parties) is the closest facsimile you have to what might happen. The city governance has collapsed primary functions like water, electricity and transport. It is a performative government where projects are announced almost weekly but where follow-through fails. It exists for patronage — the distribution of posts by portfolio for the control of contracts. As that happens, local taxes rise beyond inflation. DM The post VAT court challenge stays; Treasury may drop increase: Three future GNU scenarios for SA appeared first on The Namibian.

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1 year ago

At Last YouTube video by Etta James - Topic

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Well, well, welcome 🥳🎉🎊🎉🥳 ......... and let me say ... rather have Ms Etta croon ...... 💙🎶

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LA residents return to the remains of their homes, and more from around the world Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

1 year ago

💙📸 Our here beautiful and beleaguered Mama Earth 🌍 this past week in photographs! Savour and relish!
From @dailymaverick.co.za online.

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We need humility and courage in this new age of hubris, nationalism and division If US President Donald Trump succeeds in contributing to restoring global peace that would truly be something. But, I am not a fan of any kind of chest-beating nationalism.

1 year ago

Re: shifting of figurative tectonic plates on gloCal spheres this week here's a view, an Editorial, from one of our better ZAn newspapers, The DM168, out of the @dailymaverick.co.za stable. It's worth a read. 💙🗞️ #DM168 #DailyMaverick #GlobalSouthPerspective

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