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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomes the Gauteng North High Court’s ruling affirming the Employment Equity Act and its provisions enabling the Minister for Employment and Labour to set various sectoral targets to ensure more representative and inclusive workplaces and that all workers, irrespective of race, gender or disability are afforded fair opportunities to meet their full potential. Whilst the litigants, the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA) and Sakeliga, the Afrikaans chamber of commerce, are free to take any law to court for constitutional verification, we are pleased that their challenge has been dismissed as…

Holders Liverpool beat Arsenal 1-0 in English football’s Premier League, while fallen favourites Man City lose 2-1 at Brighton.Published On 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025Dominik Szoboszlai curled home a brilliant long-range free kick to earn Liverpool a 1-0 win over Arsenal in an early-season meeting between two of the likely Premier League title contenders.Manchester City was also expected to be challenging for the championship this season, but collapsing to a 2-1 loss at Brighton – for a second straight loss – was another sign that Pep Guardiola’s team has lost its aura of dominance.Little separated Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield…

Abeokuta — The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has warned members of the public against entering into discussion with any person on social media on issues pertaining to auctioning of items seized by the service in the course of its operations. The NCS said there were laid down processes and procedures guiding auctioning of seized and forfeited items. The Comptroller of Ogun Area 1 Command of the NCS, Mr Godwin Otunla, raised the alarm on the activities of some individuals, who went about posting false information concerning auctioning of items, with the sole aim of defrauding unsuspecting members of the public.…

New research suggests that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy may be linked to a higher risk of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. The study, published this month in BMC Environmental Health, looked at previous research and found that the most reliable studies reported this risk, raising concerns about the drug’s use during pregnancy. ALSO READ: Medication safety during pregnancy Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol and sold under brand names like Tylenol, is one of the most widely used over-the-counter medications globally. Studies indicate that between 40% and 65% of…

While South Asia’s seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change is making it deadly.Published On 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is dealing with the biggest flood in its history, a senior official has said, as water levels of rivers rise to all-time highs.Global warming has worsened monsoon rains this year in Pakistan, one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, according to a new study. Downpours and cloudbursts have triggered flash floods and landslides across the mountainous north and northwest in recent months.Residents in eastern Punjab have also experienced abnormal amounts of rain,…

David Lammy will tell MPs on Monday that the UK still intends to recognise a Palestinian state in September, with Israel having shown no sign of meeting the government’s demands.The foreign secretary will say in a Commons statement that government officials intend to carry out a formal assessment in the coming days of whether Israel has complied with the tests set out by the prime minister, Keir Starmer.But with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government continuing to harden its position on Gaza and the West Bank, the foreign secretary will confirm that Britain still plans to recognise Palestine.A UK official said: “We will…

Jim Jarmusch has been doing his idiosyncratic thing for so long we sometimes take him for granted. But then he comes along with a film as delicate and lovely, as singular and perfectly realized as Father Mother Sister Brother and quietly floors you. What a pleasure to see a study of family relationships so entirely unconcerned with banal platitudes, emotional calculation or trite “relatability,” that most hackneyed of perceived attributes. This is not bland comfort food. Instead, what makes the triptych of thematically connected snapshots memorable is its deftly unfussy observation of the unknowability that can endure among people who…

Anita NkongeBBC News in NairobiCarolyne OdourElijah, aged nine, and Daniel, aged 12, went missing after leaving on a bus on 28 JuneCarolyne Odour has told the BBC she desperately fears for fate of her two young sons who went missing two months ago with their father – a follower of the teachings of a notorious starvation cult leader.Ms Odour says that amid an ongoing investigation into more deaths linked to the cult she has identified her husband’s body at a mortuary in the coastal town of Malindi.His corpse was found in July in the village of Kwa Binzaro, inland from…

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Zimbabwe’s tobacco sector was once on the brink of collapse. Now, it’s booming again. Last year alone, it earned the country close to US$1 billion in revenue. But though the crop is one of the country’s top exports and production has soared, small-scale contract farmers say they see little profit due to restrictive financing agreements. The tobacco boom, farmers say, is keeping them in debt. Gift Ngoma is among them. When he lost his clerk job eight years ago, tobacco farming was the only way he could feed his family. But fertilizer, seeds and labor proved expensive.…

Wissa has made clear he wants to leave for St James’ Park and has not been training or playing with the first team this season.According to sources, Brentford originally wanted £40m for Wissa but the price has now increased to about £65m.The transfer window closes at 19:00 BST on Monday.Brentford have already lost fellow forward Bryan Mbeumo this summer to Manchester United for £65m, but signed Dango Ouattara from Bournemouth for a club record deal worth up to £42.5m.Wissa’s possible move to Newcastle is believed to be part of a series of transfers that could result in Alexander Isak joining…