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John Steenhuisen warns of 15,000 job losses in South Africa

Today at 11:19 AM, via Daily Investor

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has warned that the collapse of Tongaat Hulett puts thousands of jobs at risk, with around 40,000 livelihoods depending on the supply chain linked to the company’s mills.

South Africa

South Africa to Finalize National AI Policy by 2027, Seeking Middle Ground Between Innovation and Regulation

Today at 10:30 AM, via iAfrica

South Africa’s national artificial intelligence policy will be finalized in the 2026-2027 financial year, with the government preparing to launch an implementation plan following a recent colloquium on the country’s AI policy framework. The draft policy will be reviewed by the economic cluster ministerial council next month before advancing to a cabinet committee. It is […]

South Africa

Why Digital Trust Matters: Secure, Responsible AI for African SMEs?

Today at 10:21 AM, via iAfrica

For years, security for SMEs across sub-Saharan Africa meant metal grilles and alarm systems. Today, the most significant risks are invisible and growing faster than most businesses realise. Artificial Intelligence has quietly embedded itself into everyday operations. The chatbot responding to customers at midnight, the system forecasting inventory requirements, and the software identifying...

Education

Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block review – a true ‘Misery’ memoir

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

A compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravelling

Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him out of school. It was the early 1990s and the family had recently moved from Indianapolis to Plano, Texas, where Block’s father had started a new job. While Block and his older brother, Aaron, had been wrenched away from their schoolmates, their mother had...

Education

US justice department sues UCLA over alleged antisemitism amid pro-Palestinian protests

Today at 02:23 AM, via The Guardian

Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president’s feud with California

The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus.

The lawsuit claims UCLA...

Science/Tech

Why Digital Infrastructure Investment Belongs At The Heart Of The Budget

Today at 11:27 AM, via Tech Financials

As Minister Godongwana prepares to deliver another Budget in a constrained fiscal environment, the pressure to make hard choices is mounting. Vuyani Jarana, CEO of Ilitha Telecommunications, argues that repeating traditional investment patterns will lock South Africa into the same outcomes. Instead, he says, government must take a longer-term view and prioritise building intelligent...