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ROAD TO RUIN: Nelson Mandela Bay potholes: Waiting for Godot (and the municipality)

Today at 15:29 PM, via Daily Maverick

Nelson Mandela Bay municipality took nearly 10 months to repair one of four potholes on Louise Michael Drive — and in a bizarre move, left the other three unattended. But residents can take heart: In some cases, when the metro drags its feet, civil organisation Gatvol PE steps in.

South Africa

President Ramaphosa hails Hosi N’wamitwa II as a pioneer of gender equality

Today at 15:17 PM, via SAnews

President Ramaphosa hails Hosi N’wamitwa II as a pioneer of gender equality

President Cyril Ramaphosa has described the late Hosi Dr Phylia Tinyiko Lwandlamuni N’wamitwa II as a trailblazer who transformed customary law and advanced the rights of women, saying her life was a triumph of courage over patriarchy.

Delivering the eulogy at her Special Provincial Official Funeral at the...

Africa

‘Emotional’ Mourinho should apologise – McCarthy

Friday at 13:43 PM, via BBC News

Benni McCarthy says Jose Mourinho should admit his “mistake” following the Benfica manager’s post-match comments after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr claimed he was racially abused.

Education

Tories would scrap ‘debt trap’ of high interest on student loans, says Kemi Badenoch

Today at 15:19 PM, via The Guardian

Education secretary suggests Labour’s priority is maintenance grants for poorer students rather than cutting interest

Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives would scrap the “unfair debt trap” of high interest rates on student loans, piling pressure on Labour ministers to tackle the growing outrage over the high costs.

The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, admitted the system of plan...

Education

Only 10% of boys aged 14-16 read daily for pleasure, National Literacy Trust finds

Today at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: NLT report says time for books is being crowded out by schoolwork, screens and sports

Fewer than one in 10 boys aged 14 to 16 read daily, according to research, which found reading for pleasure was being crowded out of teenage lives by schoolwork, screens and sports.

While reading declines for both boys and girls in early adolescence, there are “signs of recovery” among girls in...

Education

Minister says children in England will get support more quickly under Send overhaul

Today at 13:58 PM, via The Guardian

Bridget Phillipson says government is ‘not taking away support’ as she prepares to announce changes

UK politics live – latest updates

Bridget Phillipson has pledged that under the government’s overhaul of the special educational needs system it will take weeks for children to get access to support, not months or years – as she prepares to announce the controversial changes.

Speaking before...

Science/Tech

Has the AI Disruption Arrived – and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?

Today at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled “The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun,” arguing that Anthropic’s Claude Code “was always a helpful coding assistant, but in November it suddenly got much better, and ever since I’ve been knocking off side projects that...

Health

A Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study

Friday at 16:25 PM, via New York Times

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in later stages of the disease.