Locals Only: Wellington indie-pop powerhouse RIIKI is ready for her moment
5 May, 2021 07:00 PM
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Locals Only: RIIKI performs High Heights. Made with funding from NZ on Air. Video / Locals Only
Locals Only: RIIKI performs High Heights. Made with funding from NZ on Air. Video / Locals Only
NZ Herald
By: Sarah Illingworth
Covid-19 has dumped challenges on all of us, but for aspiring young artists about to break into international waters, this life-on-pause moment has demanded a kind of patience and philosophical acceptance that can be hard to muster.
Raquel Abolins-Reid, aka RIIKI, had barely returned from a fortnight in Los Angeles before Aotearoa went into lockdown. While there, the indie-pop performer and her manager Isaac Adams met producers and potential collaborators they had only met online, held a showcase and secured a signing with WME – the world s longest-running talent agency.
Incredible footage captures failed cash-in-transit truck heist in South Africa
3 May, 2021 11:24 PM
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Footage has captured the moment a cash-in-transit truck in South Africa comes under a hail of bullets in a failed heist. Video / FUNKER530 via YouTube
Footage has captured the moment a cash-in-transit truck in South Africa comes under a hail of bullets in a failed heist. Video / FUNKER530 via YouTube
news.com.au
By: Frank Chung
Heart-pounding footage has captured the moment a cash-in-transit truck in South Africa comes under a hail of bullets in a failed heist.
Video of the high-speed chase has gone viral online, with many praising the heroic actions of the driver and likening him to a real-life Jason Bourne.
Moment of truth
April 28, 2021
There’s always room for compromise in politics. But sometimes a U-turn is not an option – you have to decide between two parallel paths, and both have their own pitfalls. This is the dilemma the government is faced with at the moment.
The violent protests by the TLP left the government in a quandary. The protesters were demanding the government follow through on its previous purported deal. The government, terrified by possible economic and diplomatic repercussions of sending the French diplomat back home and at the same time perturbed by recurring demonstration of street power by the religious group, took the extreme step of placing the TLP on the list of terrorist groups. But the continued resistance by TLP supporters forced the government back into negotiations and ultimately led to another pact, which may possibly lead to the reversal of the ban on the party in the weeks ahead.