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The bank is counting on a Dubai presence to connect it with the many family offices Investec Ltd.، a bank that focuses on wealthy clients in South Africa and the UK، is opening an office in Dubai with an eye on its growing expatriate community.The lender، which also has operations in the US، Europe and elsewhere، announced its Dubai expansion on Wednesday.“We are seeing a lot of South Africans considering Dubai as an option to either work or permanently live،” Investec Bank Chief Executive Officer Cumesh Moodliar told Bloomberg in an interview. “Building off on that، we’ve seen family offices…
Meta Connect 2024 is a developer-centric event featuring a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He showcased new hardware and software to support two of Meta’s big ambitions: AI and the metaverse. This included everything from new Quest headsets, updates to Meta’s Llama AI model, and even a new fully AR glasses prototype. Meta Connect 2024 kicked off live at 10 a.m. PT. You can stream it from Meta Connect’s site, on Meta’s developer Facebook page, and you can even stream it in Horizon Worlds from your Meta Quest headset if you really want to feel the full immersion. We’ll be…
Eswatini’s main opposition party has alleged that its leader was poisoned in an assassination attempt, putting renewed scrutiny on the southern African country that is one of the last remaining absolute monarchies, where authorities have for years moved to quash pro-democracy movements.The People’s United Democratic Movement party (Pudemo) said its president, Mlungisi Makhanya, was hospitalised after being poisoned in neighbouring South Africa on Tuesday. It said he was under security protection but gave no detail on his condition or the circumstances of the alleged poisoning. Makhanya had recently said there would be new pro-democracy protests in Eswatini next month. The…
Another southeast Manitoban athlete makes the community proud as she heads off to compete in the World’s Championships. Steinbach resident and local relator, Jacqui Broesky says that powerlifting is not the same as what you see in the Olympics and shares the difference. “Powerlifting is based on three lifts we do back squat, bench press, and deadlift, you get 3 attempts at each of those 3 lifts, and then at the end you get a total of however much weight you lifted.” Broesky shows the community that it’s never too late to pursue a dream and accomplish great things…
JOHANNESBURG — The mortal remains of 42 South African freedom fighters who died while exiled in Zimbabwe and Zambia during the struggle against white minority rule arrived in the country Wednesday, officials said.The remains were received by government officials and family members at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in the capital Pretoria after being exhumed in Zambia and Zimbabwe for their reburial in the country of their birth.This was part of a government program to bring closure to families, whose loved ones died away from home while serving in the underground structures of both the African National Congress and Pan…
A considerable proportion of U.S. adults has absolute and functional iron deficiency, according to a study published online Sept. 24 in JAMA Network Open. Yahya M.K. Tawfik, Pharm.D., from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study analyzing data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey 2017 to 2020 to estimate the prevalence of absolute and functional iron deficiency and iron supplement use across age, sex, and comorbidity categories in the United States. The analysis included 8,021 U.S. adults (mean age, 48 years). The researchers found that an estimated 14 and 15 percent of U.S.…
‘Few guys call the coach and say you owe me R200’: Rassie on debt collector Eben’s competitiveness News24Rassie starts Libbok and benches Pollard for insurance in Rugby Championship decider Daily MaverickTALKING POINT: There is sound logic to Manie’s selection SuperSportEtzebeth breaks Bok record; Hendrikse and Libbok paired at halfback SA RugbyBoks to make Etzebeth milestone special SARugbymag This article was originally published by a www.news24.com . Read the Original article here. .
Prince William on 19 September 2024 in Aberdeen, Scotland. (Russell Cheyne – WPA Pool/Getty Images) Prince William is set to visit Cape Town on 6 November for the Earthshot Prize Awards.”The Earthshot Prize was launched by Prince William in 2020 to search for and scale the most innovative solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges,” says the initiative’s website.The prince also announced the 15 Earthshot Prize finalists for 2024 in a video uploaded onto social media.”Each of the 15 finalists are in the running to receive five £1 million prizes, which will be awarded at The Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony…
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Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump, greets supporters during a campaign rally at The Expo, World Market Centre, in Las Vegas, on September 13. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Both candidates competing to lead the American people and the “liberal democratic order” barely mentioned the rest of the world in their recent debate. They wish to lead us, but give us no consideration as they make their pitches to American voters. For both the Harris and Trump campaigns, international issues don’t seem to feature beyond competing to see who can offer more support for Israel, a state openly…