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BUCKETS OF HOPE: This festive season, join us in fighting child malnutrition in Nelson Mandela Bay

Yesterday at 22:37 PM, via Daily Maverick

Daily Maverick and SA Harvest have launched their third annual festive season campaign to combat hunger in the Eastern Cape. This year’s focus is on supporting three holiday programmes. These initiatives are crucial for keeping children safe and fed during the school break, especially since the regular school nutrition programme is suspended for the year.

Business

South Africans want BEE to end

Yesterday at 17:30 PM, via BusinessTech

More than half of South Africans want a key policy aimed at addressing racial inequality scrapped and hiring and promotions to be merit-based, according to the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Sport

Bayern Munich plan talks with Guehi – Friday gossip

Yesterday at 23:37 PM, via BBC News

Bayern Munich plan to hold talks with Marc Guehi about a potential move, Tottenham will try to sell Yves Bissouma in January, Aston Villa looking to send Harvey Elliot back to Liverpool, plus more.

Sport

Grand Slam Track files for bankruptcy to ‘reorganise’

Yesterday at 22:47 PM, via BBC News

Olympic great Michael Johnson says he will “refuse to give up on the mission of Grand Slam Track” after the athletics competition he backed files for bankruptcy following months of financial difficulty.

Sport

Barcelona ‘not a pressure’ for on-loan Rashford

Yesterday at 22:16 PM, via BBC News

Marcus Rashford says he finds nothing at Barcelona “a pressure” and is at the club to “enjoy myself” as he continues to thrive since his move from Manchester United.

Education

UK students: are you living at home while you’re at university?

Yesterday at 18:22 PM, via The Guardian

We’d like to hear from UK students who are – or are planning to – live at home while studying at university

We’d like to find out about students who are living at home while studying at university, rather than living in student accommodation or a flat share.

Why have you taken the decision to live at home? What are the positives and negatives? How has the cost of living affected your university...

Education

Kenya: How to Check 2025 Kjsea Results Online and Via SMS

Yesterday at 17:43 PM, via AllAfrica

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Parents and guardians across Kenya can now access the 2025 Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA) results following their official release by Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba.

Education

Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Manchester Metropolitan University again wins top spot for climate and social justice in league table

More universities have severed ties with fossil fuel companies, banning them from recruitment fairs and refusing to advertise roles in the industry, according to the latest higher education league table.

The analysis found that eight more universities had signed up to end recruitment ties with...

Science/Tech

Google is Building an Experimental New Browser and a New Kind of Web App

Yesterday at 23:22 PM, via Slashdot

Google’s Chrome team has built an experimental browser called Disco that takes a query or prompt, opens a cluster of related tabs, and then generates a custom application tailored to whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. The browser launched Thursday as an experiment in Google’s Search Labs. GenTabs, the core feature powering Disco, are information-rich pages created by Google’s...

Science/Tech

Cisco Stock Hits New All-Time High, 25 Years After the Dotcom Bubble Burst

Yesterday at 22:45 PM, via Slashdot

Cisco’s stock price touched $80.25 on Wednesday, finally eclipsing its dotcom-era peak of $80.06 set on March 27, 2000 — when the networking giant briefly surpassed Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company. The journey back took 25 years, eight months and 13 days. The company’s fundamentals improved dramatically over that period, of course. Revenues have nearly quintupled since...

Science/Tech

New York Becomes First State To Require Disclosure of AI Performers in Ads

Yesterday at 22:05 PM, via Slashdot

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed two bills aimed at regulating the use of AI in entertainment, requiring disclosure when ads feature AI-generated performers and mandating consent from heirs before a deceased person’s likeness can be used commercially. Hochul described both measures as “first in the nation” policies during a signing ceremony at SAG-AFTRA’s New York City offices....

Motoring

South Africa needs to ditch driver’s licence cards

Yesterday at 15:17 PM, via TopAuto

South Africa’s largest public sector trade union has voiced its support for a plan to replace the country’s physical driver’s licences with a new digital system.