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PPRA warns of rise in bogus property agents

Today at 05:31 AM, via SowetanLIVE

The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) reported 1,750 complaints against property practitioners in the past financial year, highlighting a rise in bogus unregistered agents. These scams often involve advertising properties without owner consent and collecting payments from multiple buyers for the same property. While PPRA handles complaints involving actual properties and...

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No hope on the horizon for Cape Town housing crisis

Today at 05:00 AM, via Newsday

Over a year after the Minister of Tourism said she would regulate short-term rentals in Cape Town to remedy the housing crisis, she now says she is not empowered to do so.

South Africa

UCT Researcher Wins Global Grant to Study AI’s Impact on Youth Employment in South Africa

Yesterday at 18:17 PM, via iAfrica

A researcher at the University of Cape Town has received an international research grant to examine whether artificial intelligence can improve employment prospects for unemployed young people in South Africa. Dr. Tim Köhler, a senior research officer at the Development Policy Research Unit in UCT’s School of Economics, is one of 19 early-career researchers selected […]

Sport

Confirmed Nedbank Cup final 16 fixtures

Today at 04:47 AM, via The South African

The Premier Soccer League has announced this season’s Nedbank Cup final 16 showdowns, with three amatuer sides still in the mix.

Education

NUS urges ‘loan shark’ Reeves to reverse changes to student debt repayment

Yesterday at 21:20 PM, via The Guardian

Policy announced in autumn budget freezes threshold at which students start repaying university loans

Protesters dressed as sharks and in Rachel Reeves face masks gathered outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to express their anger over changes to their student loans and their ballooning debt.

The demonstration by members of the National Union of Students (NUS) characterised the...

Education

Uganda: Luweero Headteachers Warn Parents Against Late School Reporting

Yesterday at 20:27 PM, via AllAfrica

[Nile Post] School administrators in Luweero District, particularly in government-aided schools, have urged parents to send pupils back to school promptly, warning that delayed reporting is hurting learners academically now that classes have resumed.

Education

Uganda: Low Learner Turnout Marks School Reopening in Tororo

Yesterday at 20:27 PM, via AllAfrica

[Nile Post] Several schools in Tororo District registered low learner turnout on the first day of reopening for the 2026 academic year, raising concern among education administrators over potential disruptions to learning.

Science/Tech

Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits, Warning ‘World is in Peril’

Today at 05:44 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: An Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the “world is in peril” in part over AI advances. Mrinank Sharma said the safety team “constantly [faces] pressures to set aside what matters most,” citing concerns about bioterrorism and other risks. Anthropic was founded with the explicit goal of creating safe AI; its CEO Dario Amodei said at Davos that AI...

Science/Tech

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

Today at 03:45 AM, via Slashdot

Ring’s Super Bowl ad on Sunday promoted “Search Party,” a feature that lets a user post a photo of a missing dog in the Ring app and triggers outdoor Ring cameras across the neighborhood to use AI to scan for a match. 404 Media argues the cheerful premise obscures what the Amazon-owned company has become: a massive, consumer-deployed surveillance network. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who left...

Science/Tech

Is Linux Mint Burning Out? Developers Consider Longer Release Cycle

Today at 00:45 AM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Mint developers say they are considering adopting a longer development cycle, arguing that the project’s current six month cadence plus LMDE releases leaves too little room for deeper work. In a recent update, the team reflected on its incremental philosophy, independence from upstream decisions like Snap, and heavy investment in Cinnamon and XApp. While the...