Written by This was a historic year for SA on many levels. It marked the milestone of 30 years since the dawn of democracy in 1994. In May, we witnessed a political shift when the ANC lost its majority in government for the first time since 1994 and secured less than 50% of the national votes. This […]
WILSON COUNTY, N.C. — Tuesday just past midnight, a large box truck rear-ended an RV – filled with more than two dozen snakes – heading from South Carolina to Pennsylvania on Interstate 95. The crash happened near N. Springfield School Road north of Kenly, in Wilson County, North Carolina. Inside the RV were 5 people, […]
ANALYSIS — For someone who has made winning a key part of his personal, professional and political brand, Donald Trump is set to rely on a large stable of losers in his second term. The president-elect has tapped more than a dozen people who previously lost elections to join his administration next year. Even though […]
President-elect Donald Trump has been naming his cabinet nominees at a breakneck pace. The types of people that he’s selecting are reflective of just how much he has remade the Republican Party in his own image. Instead of Lincoln’s Team of Rivals, the title of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book about the presidential Cabinet put together by the 16th […]
I’m as excited for Civilization 7 as everyone else, but I can’t help but wonder what it could be if it stepped outside the comfortable familiarity of real-world history. In Zephon, the planet as we knew it is all but dead, blasted into a nightmarish wasteland by an alien apocalypse. Rather than exploring with an […]
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