Monthly Archives: November 2019

HE INTERNET is being used to promote a modern day online slave market, where women and children are being sold into domestic servitude. This is an extremely lucrative online business, facilitated by Google, Apple and Facebook who allow the adverts to be shown, the UN special rapporteur has alleged. ‘What...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European Union ‘within six months’, and then calling another referendum in which: ‘We’ll let the people decide whether to leave with a sensible deal or remain.’ On...

THE South African NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has said it will march on the imminent meeting of the ANC National Executive Council, as the union is opposed to the ‘unbundling’ of South Africa’s Electricity Supply Commission (Eskom). The declaration followed its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting last week. David...

WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated that it was preparing for a full withdrawal from the country in the coming weeks. Trump dumped his former Kurdish allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces...