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WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2026, 06:44

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I made bad choices in romance – Letoya Makhene

Today at 06:00 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Letoya Makhene gets candid on reality TV show, The Makhenes, about her disappointment in her choices of past lovers, how her bad decisions have impacted on her children, and on picking up the pieces.

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Safa four ask high court ‘to park‘ their suspensions

Today at 05:42 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Four Safa NEC members – Gladwyn White, Orapeleng Setlhare, Monde Montshiwa and Emma Hendricks – have filed an affidavit in the Mahikeng high court imploring it to urgently interdict Safa from suspending them

World

How Americans see China now

Yesterday at 23:18 PM, via NPR

As President Trump heads to China this week, a new NPR-Chicago Council-Ipsos poll finds most Americans think U.S. tariffs have hurt both economies, and that the Iran war is bad for America.

Business

Bad news for domestic workers in South Africa

Yesterday at 16:40 PM, via BusinessTech

Domestic worker jobs in the country have once again declined, with unions flagging ongoing issues with pay, protections and ill treatment by employers.

Sport

Messi remains top MLS earner with salary of £18.5m

Today at 00:14 AM, via BBC News

Lionel Messi remains the highest-paid player in Major League Soccer with an annual base salary of $25m (£18.5m) – more than double that of the North American league’s next-highest earner.

Education

US university’s commencement speaker reveals he will pay off students’ final-year loans

Yesterday at 19:24 PM, via The Guardian

Anil Kochhar hopes textile graduates of North Carolina State can leave with ‘greater freedom to pursue goals’

Anil Kochhar, a North Carolina State University donor, gave graduates of the school’s Wilson College of Textiles a lot more than just words of wisdom when he delivered their keynote commencement address recently.

The Indian American entrepreneur also announced that he would pay off any...

Education

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

Yesterday at 19:21 PM, via The Guardian

Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts

Thousands of staff at the University of Nottingham have been told to prepare for redundancy as part of swingeing financial cuts that academics say will harm the institution’s future.

The university’s administration sent letters to 2,700 staff on Tuesday, notifying them their role was...

Science/Tech

Getting children to eat their vegetables starts in the womb, researchers suggest

Today at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Rather than bribery, or hiding carrots under ketchup, the key may be to expose foetuses to healthy flavours

It is an age-old battle with small children that most parents will recognise: please, please, eat your vegetables.

Some will read them books with titles such as The Boy Who Loved Broccoli. Others have been known to smother veg in tomato ketchup, or mix avocado and fruit with Greek yoghurt...

Science/Tech

Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk’s trial against the company, testifying that Musk repeatedly sought control of OpenAI before leaving in 2018. Altman said he opposed putting AI “under the control of any one person,” while Musk’s lawyer used a pointed cross-examination to attack Altman’s trustworthiness. An anonymous reader shares updates from the testimony via the New...