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South Africa

Mining Indaba to strengthen collaboration between government, investors

Today at 10:05 AM, via SAnews

Mining Indaba to strengthen collaboration between government, investors

Next week’s Mining Indaba Investment Forum will provide an opportunity for direct engagement between government and investors, with a strong emphasis on strengthening collaboration between the public and private sectors. This as the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic), in partnership with...

South Africa

Police appeal for assitance in locating dangerous suspect

Today at 09:46 AM, via SAnews

Police appeal for assitance in locating dangerous suspect

Police in Kopanong and Parkweg are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a suspect identified as 32-year-old Lloyd Mcdonald Siswe Jacobs, who is wanted for a number of serious offenses, including rape and conspiracy to commit murder.

On Sunday, 11 May 2025, at approximately 14:00, Kopanong police responded to a...

Business

John Steenhuisen is out

Today at 10:29 AM, via BusinessTech

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen has announced he will not contest the party’s next federal election, marking the end of his time as party leader.

Business

Trump keeps AGOA alive for now

Today at 09:06 AM, via BusinessTech

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a law extending a preferential trade program for Africa through 31 December 2026.

Education

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to become UK’s first ‘super-university’

Today at 10:00 AM, via The Guardian

Formal approval given for new university group to operate from August, with both institutions keeping their names

The universities of Greenwich and Kent have confirmed they have been given formal approval to merge into the UK’s first “super-university”.

The merged entity will be the third-largest higher education institution in the UK, the universities said, and is consulting on being named the...

Education

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degrees

The seaside city of Southend-on-Sea, on England’s east coast, looks grey on a winter afternoon in term-time. Its cobbled high street, bordering the university campus, is sparsely populated...

Science/Tech

On the Future of Species by Adrian Woolfson review – are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?

Today at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

A genomic entrepreneur’s guide to the coming revolution in biology raises troubling questions about ethics and safety

The prophet Ezekiel once claimed to have seen four beasts emerge from a burning cloud, “sparkling like the colour of burnished brass”. Each had wings and four faces: that of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. Similarly, a creature called Buraq, something between a mule and a...

Science/Tech

Say Hello To GoogleSQL

Today at 10:01 AM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: Google has quietly retired the ZetaSQL name and rebranded its open source SQL analysis and parsing project as GoogleSQL. This is not a technical change but a naming cleanup meant to align the open source code with the SQL dialect already used across Google products like BigQuery and Spanner. Internally, Google has long called the dialect GoogleSQL, even while the open...