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Power crisis is likely to get worse | Hlophe's legal woes | Downer hits back | Trump sued for fraud | ‘How to leave Russia' searches spike | Spain grants lagoon personhood | Weird science celebrated

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The cold, hard facts — there’s no quick fix, and the power crisis is likely to get worse

No knight in shining armour or pretty optics orchestrated by the Presidency will provide a solution. It’s the state of affairs after years and years of delaying maintenance.

Daily Maverick
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Judiciary in Crisis: Hlophe should face misconduct tribunal over Goliath’s complaint – appeals committee recommends

A Judicial Conduct Appeals Committee recommends WC Judge President John Hlophe face a misconduct tribunal, adding to his legal woes as he faces suspension by Cyril Ramaphosa as recommended by the JSC.

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Downer says Zuma must put down R1 million for private prosecution

Prosecutor says the sum is security for legal defence costs in a matter seen as another bid by Zuma to delay his arms deal trial. The NPA says Zuma's charges against Downer are an abuse of process.

The Mail & Guardian
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These graphs show PRASA’s disastrous state

No trains, no hope? One of the main consequences of the grand scale corruption over more than a decade is that there are not enough trains. We show just how bad things are at PRASA.

GroundUp News
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News From Our Continent

Nigeria's Buhari, in last UN speech, raps leaders who extend term limits

Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari criticised leaders who cling to power, saying this was having a corrosive effect. He promised free and fair elections when his country elects his successor in February.

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World News

New York attorney general announces civil lawsuit against Trump and family

Move comes after years-long investigation. AG said: 'Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system, thereby cheating all of us.'

The Guardian
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‘Thrown into the meat grinder’: Russians react to mobilisation

After President Putin announced a partial mobilisation, ‘how to leave Russia’ spikes on search engines. 'They are losing the war, and they want to do something not to lose it,' an analyst explains.

Al Jazeera
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Spain grants personhood status to Mar Menor saltwater lagoon

One of Europe’s largest and most threatened saltwater lagoons faces a less fetid future after Spain gave it legal status as a person. Mar Menor is now legally represented by officials and scientists.

ABC News
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Health

In-depth: What is behind the Eastern Cape’s nurse training crisis?

Lecturers doing admin, uninhabitable student accommodation, break-ins, an exodus of staff and campuses with no students are among the challenges at Lilitha nursing college in the Eastern Cape.

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Sport

Presidents Cup the first major victim of defections to LIV

Presidents Cup will be without big names because of the number of defections to LIV Golf. Almost every industry has had a revolution, or at least rapid evolution, and golf might be no different.

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And Then There's This ....

Science's weirdest discoveries celebrated at Ig Nobel Awards

Winners include two scientists who studied the sex lives of constipated scorpions and a person who made a life-size crash test dummy of a moose. They received a Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill.

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