As he departs South African Airways, Professor John Lamola highlights his achievements in steering the national carrier through crises but acknowledges lingering financial governance issues.
If auditing is meant to be the market’s smoke alarm, the latest report from the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors suggests too many batteries are still loose.
TBM launch signals a step towards water security for Gauteng and Lesotho
By Dikeledi Molobela
Mokhotlong, Lesotho – In a major step toward securing water supply for South Africa’s economic heartland, the second Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) was launched on Monday at the Polihali construction site, under Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
President Trump said a U.S. delegation will head to Pakistan to resume talks to end the war with Iran, but Tehran expressed reluctance after the U.S. seized one of its cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. forces seized an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. And, an online government portal for processing tariff refunds launches today.
After being flooded with positive sentiment at the start of the year, the rand is back in the basket of worst-performing currencies thanks to the war in the Middle East.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that climate-related disasters are increasingly disrupting education across Eastern and Southern Africa, potentially leading to as much as $380 billion in lost future earnings by 2050 if urgent action is not taken.
DeanonymizedCoward writes: Engadget reports that Palantir has posted to X a summary of CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska’s 2025 book, The Technological Republic, which reads like a utopian idealist doodled on a Bond villain’s whiteboard. While the post makes some decent points, it also highlights the Big-AI attitude that the AI surveillance state is in fact a good thing, and strongly...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by writer Austin Carr: Allbirds is pivoting to artificial intelligence. The San Francisco brand, whose wool running shoes were once the sneaker du jour among the tech crowd, announced last week that it was expanding into AI computing infrastructure. The bizarre strategic shift was immediately greeted with a surprising frenzy on Wall...
Zoologist, author and broadcaster who found fame with his groundbreaking 1967 book The Naked Ape
Desmond Morris, the zoologist, writer and broadcaster, who has died aged 98, in the course of 60 years put his name to more than 50 books, and fronted several hundred hours of television, starting with the Granada children’s weekly programme Zoo Time from 1956. It was broadcast from a special...