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FROZEN REPUBLIC: SA’s health crisis is a geography problem, and the NHI must start where the map is coldest

Today at 20:38 PM, via Daily Maverick

The Lehohla Ledger’s Red-Zone Thermal Map replaces abstract planning with spatial truth, overlaying hotspot analysis and mortality autocorrelation to reveal where survival is breaking down. It shows a republic split between resilient ‘health foundries’, fragile buffer zones, and 74 frozen Red-Zone municipalities where infrastructure friction, poverty, and nutrition have collapsed outcomes...

Sport

Celtic to appeal against Trusty red card

Today at 19:28 PM, via BBC News

Celtic will contest the decision to send off defender Auston Trusty in Sunday’s 2-2 Scottish Premiership draw against Hearts at Tynecastle.

Education

Rwanda: Universities Roll Out EU-Backed Digital Logistics Training

Today at 19:32 PM, via AllAfrica

[New Times] Rwandan universities have partnered with European institutions to roll out a new European Union-funded project aimed at upgrading logistics and transport education through digital skills, modern laboratories and industry-linked training, in a bid to better prepare graduates for a fast-changing labour market.

Education

Rwanda: UR Welcomes 422 New Mastercard Foundation Scholars, Celebrates First Cohort of Graduates

Today at 19:32 PM, via AllAfrica

[New Times] University of Rwanda (UR) has welcomed 422 new Mastercard Foundation Scholars while celebrating the graduation of 38 students from the program’s first cohort, marking key milestones in a decade-long partnership aimed at developing the next generation of transformative leaders, through supporting young Africans to access quality education and cultivate their leadership potential.

Science/Tech

This Wireless Mic Kit Is $70 Off

Today at 20:24 PM, via Wired

Save on a full DJI Mic 3 bundle, or pick and choose to build your own portable recording setup.

Science/Tech

Television Turns 100

Today at 20:10 PM, via Slashdot

Television marks its centenary today, exactly 100 years after Scottish inventor John Logie Baird first demonstrated his electro-mechanical system to journalists and members of the Royal Institution in a cramped attic workshop above what is now Bar Italia in London’s Soho. On January 26, 1926, small groups of visitors climbed to 22 Frith Street and watched fuzzy images of a ventriloquist’s dummy...

Science/Tech

How a 15,000-Person Island Stumbled Into a $70 Million AI Windfall

Today at 19:30 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: From Sandisk shareholders to vibe coders, AI is making — and breaking — fortunes at a rapid pace. One unlikely beneficiary has been the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, which lucked into a future fortune when ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, gave the island the “.ai” top-level domain in the mid-1990s. Indeed, since...

Health

What does it take to be a prison officer?

Today at 15:30 PM, via BBC News

In a recent survey, 72% of prison officers say they are frequently stressed at work, 42% say they have been assaulted at least once. So what motivates them – and how do they cope?