South African MMA fighter Nkosi Ndebele will headline the first edition of PFL Africa season two. The 31-year-old clinched the bantamweight title in the inaugural season of the event on African soil in 2025.
Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative artificial intelligence were barely on the public radar, yet the technology has already evolved into its next iteration: agentic AI, a new breed of systems that are semi- or fully autonomous and able to reason and act on their own. And adoption has skyrocketed, […]
Helicopter incident in Hout Bay not linked to DFFE contract
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has noted with concern an accident with a helicopter operating at the fire site on the slopes of Hout Bay in Table Mountain National Park, while confirming that the occurrence is not linked to its contractual operations.
Iran rejects a U.S. proposal to end the war and counters with a different peace plan. And, a jury finds Meta and Google negligent in a trial over social media’s harms.
Israel took Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf off its hit list after Pakistan requested that Washington not target them, a Pakistani source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.
The war in the Middle East ramped up on Thursday as Israel launched a wave of strikes targeting Iranian infrastructure, and Iran fired rounds of missiles at central Israel.
South Africa’s largest bank by customers, Capitec, has rapidly rolled out its self-service Smart ID platforms across its branches nationwide, now available in every province.
[263Chat] Teachers under the banner of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) have issued a petition to the government warning of industrial action if long-standing grievances over pay and working conditions are not addressed.
[263Chat] Primary and Secondary Education Minister Torerayi Moyo has hailed the opening of a new research centre at Mbare High School as a milestone in expanding access to modern learning tools in high-density suburbs.
[UCT] As a child, Buyani Mazeka stuttered so severely that he communicated with his hands. He wrote in mirror image, every word reversed, every sentence flipped, and repeated a grade before the problem was identified.
In many African homes, history does not live in books, but it lives in people. In stories told at family gatherings, in names passed down through generations, in quiet knowledge carried by elders about who we are, where we come from, and even the illnesses that seem to follow certain bloodlines. But what happens when […]
The Trump administration had options for offloading contraceptives once destined for Africa, a newly obtained memo shows. Instead, it has let them collect dust and go bad.
The administration has yet to find a candidate who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda while avoiding his unpopular stance on vaccines.
A short-term funding bill enacted this week will ensure that more than 12,000 Floridians do not lose access to a program that helps pay for H.I.V. medications.