Author: OneAfricaYT

My friend Brian Oosthuysen, who has died aged 87, was a religious studies teacher and house master at Archway school in Stroud, Gloucestershire, for almost 20 years, and at various other schools before that. He hailed from South Africa, but came to the UK in the early 1960s to study divinity, staying for the rest of his life.Born in Port Elizabeth, he was the son of William, a cleaning supervisor on South African Railways, and Emily (nee Nowell), a shoe factory worker. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 11, and he and his sister, Patty, were largely brought…

Many business owners find themselves in a frustrating paradox: they’re spending thousands of dollars on paid advertising campaigns across Google Ads, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, yet their phone remains eerily quiet, and their sales pipeline stays disappointingly empty. If this scenario sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This disconnect between advertising investment and actual business results has become one of the most common challenges facing modern entrepreneurs. The Digital Marketing Gold Rush Mentality In today’s business environment, there’s an almost magnetic pull toward digital advertising. Social media feeds are filled with success stories of businesses that “went viral” or achieved “10x…

District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s emergency order follows a legal complaint brought on behalf of 10 children.Published On 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025A United States judge has blocked the administration of US President Donald Trump from deporting unaccompanied Guatemalan children for at least the next two weeks, in the government’s ongoing hardline anti-immigration push.The order, which was issued on Sunday in response to a complaint filed by a pro-immigrant advocacy group, came as some Guatemalan children were reportedly already put onto planes at a Texas airport and huddled inside.District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s emergency decree followed a petition from the National Immigration…

The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to adult content (which is why sites like Bluesky and Reddit have begun checking some users’ ages). To study the law’s effect, the Post says it examined the top 90 porn sites based on U.K. visitor data from Similarweb, finding 14 sites…

Bridget Phillipson has defended her cabinet colleague Angela Rayner over accusations the deputy prime minister avoided tax when buying a seaside property in East Sussex.The education secretary said Rayner had the right to buy the £800,000 flat in Hove “so long as she followed all the rules”, after reports Rayner had avoided £40,000 in stamp duty by listing it as the only property she owns.Conservatives have accused Rayner, who is also the housing secretary, of hypocrisy given she has also listed her Greater Manchester home as her primary residence, in a move that allowed her to avoid £2,000 in council…

When does a gambling habit become a gambling problem? Is it when you’re down to your last wadded-up banknote, which you keep stuffed in your sock till all else has been spent? Or maybe it’s that extreme moment you’re forced to fake your own death, just to throw off your creditors. Surely things have gotten out of hand when the British government sends a private detective (who looks an awful lot like Tilda Swinton) all the way to Macau to collect the fortune you swindled from an unsuspecting old lady to subsidize your addiction. In “Ballad of a Small Player,”…

Israel has stepped up its destruction of Gaza City as it plans to seize Gaza’s largest urban centre and forcibly displace around one million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south, as it killed at least 78 people across the besieged enclave since dawn, including 32 desperately seeking food.On Sunday, in Gaza City, the Palestinian Civil Defence reported a fire in tents near al-Quds Hospital after Israeli shelling. At least five people were killed and three wounded when a residential apartment was hit near the Remal neighbourhood.Ismail al-Thawabta, director of Gaza’s Government Media Office, said the Israeli army is also…

New research suggests that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy may be linked to a higher risk of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. The study, published this month in BMC Environmental Health, looked at previous research and found that the most reliable studies reported this risk, raising concerns about the drug’s use during pregnancy. ALSO READ: Medication safety during pregnancy Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol and sold under brand names like Tylenol, is one of the most widely used over-the-counter medications globally. Studies indicate that between 40% and 65% of…

Italy: Minuzzi; Muzzo, Sillari, Rigoni, D’Inca; Stevanin, Stefan; Turani, Vecchini, Seye, Tounesi, Duca, Sgorbini, Veronese, Giordano (capt).Replacements: Gurioli, Stecca, Maris, Fedrighi, Ranuccini, Bitonci, Mannini, Granzotto.South Africa: Roos; Dolf, Mpupha, Qawe, Malinga; Janse van Rensburg, Tose; Charlie, Gwala, Latsha, Booi (capt), Lochner, Solontsi, Mcatshulwa, Hele.Replacements: Gunter, Ngxingolo, Mdliki, Ubisi, Makua, Jacobs, Ngwevu, Webb.

Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, has been killed in an aerial attack in Gaza City, Israel has said.Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz congratulated the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, for the “flawless execution” in a post on X.He gave no detail on the time or location of the operation, but the IDF earlier said its aircraft attacked “a key terrorist” in the al-Rimal neighbourhood on Saturday, prompting reports in Israeli media that Obeida had been the target.Hamas has not confirmed his death. The Palestinian armed group earlier said dozens of civilians were…