The decision arrived after a tense and emotionally charged meeting of Wrexham County Borough Council, where members from every political background ultimately united behind a single, stronger commitment: to more rigorously monitor the historic industrial waste sites that have cast a shadow over their communities for decades. The catalyst for this unity was, inevitably, the BBC documentary “Buried”, a programme that brought long-simmering anxieties to the surface with alarming imagery and damning claims about potential contamination across the region. Yet the meeting was far from simple; it was layered with suspicion, grief, and outright anger, as some councillors openly accused…

The news of Professor Sakhela Buhlungu’s departure from the University of Fort Hare was already a story of institutional turmoil. The embattled vice-chancellor had been suspended on full pay since March, and last week he finally resigned, seemingly bringing a long, painful chapter to a close. But just days after his resignation, a far more explosive development came to light. Sarah Burger, a Cape Town attorney and forensic investigator whose firm was hired by the university to investigate corruption, has accused Buhlungu of lying under oath in an effort to keep her bank accounts frozen. In a 27-page affidavit, Burger…