After shooting a teacher six times in her car, the alleged hitman and the facilitator drove back to the scene of the crime to confirm the job had been done, Investigating officer Sergeant Tlonki Matsose told the Vereeniging Regional Court.
The question that has been swirling around together with a clarion call for Blade Nzimande to resign in the face of the ongoing NSFAS crisis is: What has the minister been doing while a rudderless NSFAS ran aground in stormy seas under his watch?, writes Prega Govender.
Fulfilling their dreams of getting degrees or diplomas has been marred by uncertainty and anxiety as they wait to hear whether they have received funding or not. News24 publishes the stories of 15 affected students.
Diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg, a funder of former president Jacob Zuma, on Thursday unveiled his plans for the upcoming elections, in which he will run as an independent candidate in Gauteng and the Free State.
Kenya’s military chief, General Francis Ogolla, was among 10 people killed when their military helicopter crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday, President William Ruto announced.
For only the third time in the 21st century, England has no teams in the semi-finals of the Champions League or Europa League – so what has gone wrong?
Rising inflation and falling pupil numbers also forcing schools to cut spending on extracurricular activities
Primary schools across England are having to shed staff and cancel trips and activities this year as rising inflation and falling pupil numbers cause a rapid deterioration in their finances.
A survey of more than 1,000 school leaders and teachers by the National Foundation for...
After years of tolerating unruly protests, some schools are starting to suspend and expel students, raising questions about where they should draw the line.
The president’s campaign has featured initiatives aimed at young people, union workers and environmentalists, but it is not clear that they will be sufficient to rekindle support in those groups.
[The Herald] Education, through science and technology, is a tool of national development and economic growth that all children should embrace in line with the country’s economic blueprint, the National Development Strategy 1, President Mnangagwa has said.
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads in its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: If you think you’ve been seeing an awful lot more Reddit results lately when you search on Google, you’re not imagining things. The internet is in upheaval, and for website owners the rules of “winning” Google Search have never been murkier. Google’s generative AI search engine is coming from one direction. It’s creeping closer to...
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I’ve been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my benchmarking queue, I also compared the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 to the near final Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on...
As record heat enveloped the nation, the rate of emergency room visits increased compared with the previous five years, a sign of the major health risks of high temperatures.
Corporate climate lobbying is recognised globally as a threat to effective climate change policy, the private and public sectors in SA do not perceive closed-door engagements to be problematic, write Caroline James and Emma Schuster.
While battery electric vehicles have dominated the transition conversation in transport, it’s looking increasingly likely that other technologies will also have a role to play.