Sweden gets into Nato

Keith Preston

3 years ago

Tuesday, 27 February 2024

“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”

Horace, 20BC

STORY OF THE DAY

How SARS used AI and proactive measures to claw back R210bn this tax year

By Neesa Moodley

There has been an increase in SARS debt, which now stands at an undisputed R300bn.

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

🇭🇺🇸🇪 Hungary’s approval of Sweden’s Nato accession on Monday has sealed in the precise opposite of what Vladimir Putin was after in invading Ukraine: the expansion of Nato. The move effectively ends 200 years of Swedish neutrality.

🛬🦺 Boeing’s woes continue, following a public flogging by the Federal Aviation Administration, who published a report criticising the company’s lax safety culture. In a nutshell, the report found that employees at all levels had “a lack of awareness of safety-related metrics”.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Joe Biden expressed hope that a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war could begin early next week. Negotiators from Israel, the US, Egypt and Qatar have been intensifying efforts in the past few days, with a rough agreement already drafted.

👨‍🎤🪙 The Odysseus moon lander could have its mission cut short today. News emerged of testing shortcuts and general human error that resulted in a sideways touchdown error, irrevocably damaging Odysseus last Thursday.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

📷 Candice Harvard

“Nature’s beauty.”

Dinokeng game reserve.

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IN NUMBERS

40+ years

… the age of some items in 100,000-odd tons of smuggled frozen meat confiscated by officials in a Chinese smuggling crackdown in 2015.

FACTS OF THE DAY

Today is World NGO Day.

The scientific name for brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. Try saying that quickly.

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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS

🏏 India beat England by five wickets in the fourth test on Monday, to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.

🏁 Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, who has denied allegations by a female employee about his conduct, could be out of a job or cleared to continue before Saturday’s season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix.

🎾 Andy Murray hinted that this could be his last season after he recorded his 500th hard court win with a 4-6 7-6(5) 6-3 victory over Canada’s Denis Shapovalov, in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships.