SA politics at a crossroads: Maja and Maimane speak out on ANC’s decline and failing municipalities
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SA politics at a crossroads: Maja and Maimane speak out on ANC’s decline and failing municipalities

Politics tamfitronics In a candid discussion on the BizNews Briefing podcast, Makone Maja of the Institute for Race Relations and Mmusi Maimane, leader of Build One South Africa, addressed South Africa’s political crisis. They discussed the fallout from ANC’s governance challenges, the Democratic Alliance’s controversial coalition, and the deteriorating state of Johannesburg and Tshwane.Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your inbox at 5:30am weekdays. Registerhere.The seventh BizNews Conference,BNC#7is to be held in Hermanus from March 11 to 13, 2025. The 2025 BizNews Conference is designed to provide an excellent opportunity for members of the BizNews community to interact directly with the keynote speakers, old (and new) friends from previous BNC events – and to...
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Episode 36: Election prediction special
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Episode 36: Election prediction special

Politics tamfitronics Welcome back to the World Series of Politics! Brandt Iden and Brendan Bussmann are doing some crystal ball-gazing in this week’s Halloween-slash-election special.We’re back from G2E, Brandt is out of his pink suit and we’re getting down to the gritty business of polling, with Harrison Hickman of Hickman Analytics. While the top of the ticket is obviously dominating headlines, for the industry there’s a lot more at stake, especially in the state of misery – sorry, Missouri – where Amendment 2 is on a knife edge.Listen to the World Series of Politics on Apple PodcastsHowever in Virginia, he’s much more bullish on the prospects for a casino in Pittsburg. The make up of the population and the attitudes towards gaming would make that much more of a slam dunk if the question on...
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Why are there so many Australians working for Saudi Arabia’s controversial megacity?
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Why are there so many Australians working for Saudi Arabia’s controversial megacity?

Politics tamfitronics NEOM, the planned city set to form the crown jewel of Saudi Arabian prince Mohammed bin Salman’s megaproject Vision 2030, has received a lot of help from an unusual source: Australia.Australians appear to be flocking to the Middle Eastern kingdom, with the allure of well-paid, tax-free jobs key to the sales pitch from Saudi Arabia. The Financial Review reports estimates from the Australian Saudi Business Council that more than 10,000 Australians now live in Saudi Arabia, with the figures rising rapidly over recent years.NEOM will be home to a planned 170km long, 500m high and 200m wide mirrored skyscraper which will house a self-sufficient “linear city” dubbed The Line, a planned urban utopia made up of modular communities.As Saudi Arabia’s influence has grown, Australian willingness to criticise the nation for its human rights...
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Twitch introduce mandatory “Politics and Sensitive Social Issues” label, just in time for the US election
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Twitch introduce mandatory “Politics and Sensitive Social Issues” label, just in time for the US election

Politics tamfitronics It "could bring new advertisers to our service" Twitch have introduced a new "Politics and Sensitive Social Issues" label for streams that "focus" on topics like "elections, civic integrity, and war or military conflict". As with the streaming giant's existing labels for M-rated material, sexual themes or depictions of gambling, the idea is that viewers can filter out such streams in advance by altering their settings.Advertisers, similarly, can "make better choices about the content they want to advertise next to"...
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