Muhammad Ali, the world’s greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, is spending his 73rd birthday at home with family and friends today, a day after being discharged from hospital where he had been in intensive care. The boxing hero was admitted to hospital in Louisville last month on December 20 with what was initially diagnosed…
One of the most popular team sports in Canada is hockey and some of the best known Canadian athletes are hockey players. Successful hockey players are often a product of years of hard work, training, dedication and good nutrition among many other things. A good hockey workout program is an essential component of the training…
By PENNY SWIFT Continuing to use the Oxford definition (of ME/CFS) may impair progress and cause harm. National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Advancing the Research of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome draft statement The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a draft report that highlights the dire need for scientific…
The HR function is as integral to delivering business value and profit as IT, accounting, purchasing and sales. The most valued HR practitioners are tactical practitioners with strong operational roots whose ability to deliver consistent value through the organisation’s employees have earned their place at the core of the leadership team. Without ensuring you have…
25 Quick Diet Fixes. Like many of us, are you feeling bloated and saggy after too much festive fun and cheer? Don’t get depressed – slimming gain needn’t mean pain. Just by making small tweaks to your daily routine this can make a huge difference to your waistline. If you were to lose two pounds…
By PENNY SWIFT ME Research UK has slammed an analytical report published in the latest The Lancet Psychiatry that claims ME/CFS patients have “fear avoidance beliefs” that exercise will exacerbate their symptoms. This, the report maintains, is a major negative factor that perpetuates both fatigue and disability in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) sufferers. In other…
By SALIEM FAKIR South African citizens should brace themselves for a long journey of troubled co-existence with Eskom’s woes as the country’s energy crisis worsens. However, citizens with higher incomes are likely to become less dependent on Eskom because they can supply their energy needs through alternative power sources like renewables, solar-water heaters, gas and…
By SALIEM FAKIR Decline can happen rapidly and all before one’s eyes. Sometimes the response to it can be slow and even result in total neglect. In the case of China’s economic transformation, pragmatism a primary role. First, there’s generally denial or the inability to speak up. Then there’s some acceptance that things are not going…
They Don’t Teach It In Law School By MANDISI MAJAVU Notwithstanding the violent and aggressive behaviour he exhibited in his personal life, the product of a historically heavily subsidised racial group in South Africa, the life of Oscar Pistorius demonstrates how white privilege protected his masculinity from being constructed as uncivil, criminal, threatening and dangerous. In…
By PENNY SWIFT As the death toll from this week’s collapse of a building that was part of the Nigerian Synagogue Church of All Nations continues to rise, it has emerged that this is not the first time a church structure belonging to the Church has collapsed. According to The Synagogue Church of All Nations…
