Tag: violence

For readers of Educated, The Glass Castle and Know My Name comes a powerful new memoir that stands as a remarkable testament to survival and resilience. The story is both harrowing and exquisite, haunting and inspiring. Kate Price’s journey in This Happened to Me leaves readers with a profound assurance in the power to heal and to reclaim life after trauma.

A New York Times bestselling author returns with the latest installment in the addictive Frankie Elkin series. In this story, Frankie travels to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee whose friend suspects she is in grave danger. Frankie must act before it is too late.

Gatsha Buthelezi: Chief with a Double Agenda was first published in London in 1988. However, it was made unavailable in South Africa due to litigation threats by Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Gatsha Buthelezi operated from within the apartheid system of the South African government.

Revenge porn and legislation have become critical issues, as victims face complex legal challenges in seeking justice and protection. The internet and digital platforms have significantly impacted privacy rights and the legal landscape. Social media, blogs, and other online forums have created a complex cyber landscape.

South African policymakers learn all the wrong lessons from other countries. Rather than look to the free and prosperous societies of the United States and Europe, politicians and pundits would rather push us to imitate Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba and Zimbabwe. And even when policymakers identify genuinely good role models, they take the wrong lessons.

There is a rare opportunity to right a lot of South Africa’s wrongs in one go. Corruption and unemployment are two major roadblocks. Permit me to explain how they can be simultaneously addressed within the current administration. I suggest an amnesty largely on the African National Congress (ANC’s) past wrongdoing in office in return for liberalisation of labour laws. This may be for a bit further down the line.

Gargantuan and tyrannical unions like the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) have leveraged their power, numbers, money, and capacity to threaten violence, and in so doing hold the economy hostage.

The “cashless revolution” spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic has proven durable and persistent. PwC’s Payments 2025 & beyond publication, released in 2021, reported a 42% increase in global cashless payment volumes. The 2023 McKinsey Global Payments Report found that global cash usage continued to decline – by four percentage points year on year – and that the growth rate of electronic transactions was nearly triple that of the overall growth in payments revenue.

Anger can be a highly destructive force or a powerful motivator, depending on how we decide to use it. This emotion can be channelled more constructively to become your superpower. Anger is a natural feeling that affects everyone. It is a normal emotion with a broad range of intensity from mild irritation and frustration to rage and aggression.

We don’t like people urinating in public. At the same time, most liberal-minded people wouldn’t want somebody jailed for it or might feel uncomfortable seeing someone being flogged in public for the offence. Still, it is a bad habit; unhygienic and the nudity a bit of a shock on an empty stomach. We want a sense of order, don’t we?