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THURSDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2026, 21:37

Business

Not enough to save 134-year-old company in South Africa

Today at 17:00 PM, via BusinessTech

Despite the gazetted reforms aimed at strengthening the industry, they do not address the imports that contributed to the liquidation of a 134-year-old South African company.

Politics

Sona debate: Ramaphosa defends task teams and slow recovery

Today at 17:01 PM, via Mail & Guardian

MPs had criticised the president for establishing another task team to tackle the country’s water crisis after he set up a police special investigations task team to probe those implicated in corruption at the Madlanga commission

Sport

New star shows why Sundowns paid R58 million

Today at 21:13 PM, via The South African

Brayan Leon has scored six goals in his first seven games for Mamelodi Sundowns. He has proved why he cost a reported R58 million fee.

Sport

Same scorer, same opponent, same medal, 12 years on!

Today at 20:02 PM, via BBC News

Alina Muller repeats history from Sochi in 2014, scoring an overtime winner as Switzerland beat Sweden 2-1 to claim bronze in the women’s ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Sport

Souttar commits future to Rangers

Today at 19:39 PM, via BBC News

Scotland defender John Souttar signs a new contract with Rangers, keeping him at the Ibrox club until May 2027 and ending speculation over his future.

Education

Schools in England to get budget for children with special needs as part of Send overhaul

Today at 20:50 PM, via The Guardian

Children to get individual support directly from school instead of via council in attempt to curb spiralling costs

Children in England with special needs will receive individual support and therapy directly from their schools as part of the government’s overhaul of England’s special education provision.

Under the plans, mainstream schools will be given commissioning budgets to spend on...

Education

Nigeria: Khairun VC Receives Sarkin Sumaila On Courtesy Visit

Today at 20:14 PM, via AllAfrica

[Daily Trust] The Vice-Chancellor of Khalifa Isyaku Rabiu University, Kano (KHAIRUN), Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, on Monday received the Emir of Sumaila, Alhaji Bello Muhammad Dan Sumaila, on a courtesy visit to his office.

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 19 February 2026

Today at 18:30 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

Simulations shed light on how snowman-shaped body in Kuiper belt may have formed

Today at 21:00 PM, via The Guardian

Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals process

It is the most distant and primitive object ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth: now researchers say they have fresh insights into how the ultra-red, 4bn-year-old body known as Arrokoth came to have its distinctive snowman-like shape.

Arrokoth sits in the Kuiper belt, a vast, thick...

Science/Tech

LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find

Today at 20:45 PM, via Slashdot

AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models — Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini — appear complex but follow predictable patterns that make them crackable in hours, even on decades-old hardware. When researchers prompted Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 fifty times in separate conversations, only 30 of the returned passwords were unique, and 18 of the...

Health

How Microbes Got Their Crawl

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via New York Times

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.