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EFF leader Julius Malema has taken a swipe at the DA, saying they were funded by business tycoon Johann Rupert and the wealthy Oppenheimer mining family. Malema made the remarks in Kraaifontein recently, during the last leg of his visit to the Western Cape. “We need to deal with that white privilege of people getting positions because they are white, not because they are qualified,” he said. He said white people “owe us their lives because they stole from us for a very long time and killed our people”. | IOL

RHODES University said it would confer an honorary Doctor of Science (DSC) degree on epidemiologist Professor Salim Abdool Karim, who is recognised for his scientific and leadership contributions to the Aids and Covid-19 pandemics. The university said that he had built a reputation as an outstanding, internationally recognised academic researcher on HIV/AIDS research and established South Africa as a world leader in the field. He had also led the public to an understanding of the Covid-19 virus. |