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South Africa

Lives have been improved but more still needs to be done – President Ramaphosa

Today at 15:36 PM, via SAnews

Lives have been improved but more still needs to be done – President Ramaphosa

Notwithstanding the persistent challenges and need for continued effort, government has profoundly transformed the lives of South Africans in the three decades since the advent of democracy.This is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa who delivered his reply to the Debate of the State of the Nation...

Business

Not enough to save 134-year-old company in South Africa

Today at 17:00 PM, via BusinessTech

Despite the gazetted reforms aimed at strengthening the industry, they do not address the imports that contributed to the liquidation of a 134-year-old South African company.

Business

Another blow to domestic workers in South Africa

Today at 16:00 PM, via BusinessTech

The latest employment data from Stats SA show that domestic worker jobs in the country continue to decline annually, despite a slight increase in the number of positions filled over the final quarter of 2025.

Politics

Sona debate: Ramaphosa defends task teams and slow recovery

Today at 17:01 PM, via Mail & Guardian

MPs had criticised the president for establishing another task team to tackle the country’s water crisis after he set up a police special investigations task team to probe those implicated in corruption at the Madlanga commission

Sport

‘Shouldn’t be in the game’ – Rosenior wants stronger racism penalties

Today at 18:02 PM, via BBC News

Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior believes anyone found guilty of racism shouldn’t work in football after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr allegedly received racist abuse from Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni in the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie in Lisbon.

Education

Special needs support eligibility to be reviewed at start of secondary school in England

Today at 13:57 PM, via The Guardian

First cohort to be impacted by change – part of Send system overhaul – are currently in key stage 1, it is understood

Children with a legal right to special needs support will face a review when they move to secondary school, with the first cohort to be impacted currently in key stage 1, the Guardian understands.

A total overhaul of the special educational needs and disabilities (Send) system...

Education

Nigeria: JAMB Sets Feb 26 Deadline for 2026 Utme E-Pin Sales

Today at 13:34 PM, via AllAfrica

[This Day] Abuja — The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that the vending of e-PINs for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will close at midnight on Thursday, February 26, 2026.

Science/Tech

HR Teams Are Drowning in Slop Grievances

Today at 18:05 PM, via Slashdot

Workplace grievances that once fit in a single email are now ballooning into 30-page documents stuffed with irrelevant historical detail, made-up legal precedents, and citations to laws from the wrong country — and UK employment lawyers say generative AI is the likely culprit. Anna Bond, legal director at Lewis Silkin, says the complaints she now sees sometimes cite Canadian legislation or...

Science/Tech

The RAM Crunch Could Kill Products and Even Entire Companies, Memory Exec Admits

Today at 17:25 PM, via Slashdot

Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng, whose company is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices, admitted in a televised interview that the ongoing global RAM shortage could force companies to cut back their product lines in the second half of 2026 — and that some may not survive at all if they cannot secure enough memory. The interview, conducted in Chinese by...

Health

How Microbes Got Their Crawl

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via New York Times

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.