The focus of the local government election in Joburg has been on the campaigns of the DA and the demise of governance under the ANC, but the real complexity may be slightly obscured. The electoral maths suggest the most likely outcomes are coalition combinations involving the DA and ANC, or the ANC, EFF and MK. But much is still uncertain.
Trust in government and democratic institutions is at a historic low. The Electoral Commission says comments from political party leaders have the potential to further undermine public confidence in the integrity of the upcoming local government elections.
Johannesburg’s unfunded budget poses a serious threat to essential services, underscoring financial mismanagement and the urgent need for community accountability.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says Bafana Bafana will carry the hopes and dreams of the nation with them as they head to the FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Mexico, the United States of America, and Canada from next month.
The President said this on Wednesday night during a send-off dinner for the men’s national football squad and...
Music is interwoven with the sounds of daily life in this West African island nation, which hosted two international music festivals in April and has been named the African Capital of Culture for 2028.
Eswatini has signed a $300 million agreement with Taiwan to build a massive strategic oil reserve but the project is raising difficult questions in a country battling deepening poverty, soaring unemployment and allegations of elite enrichment
Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi is named in the Atlas Lions’ World Cup squad despite the injury he sustained in the Champions League semi-finals against Bayern Munich.
The decisions follows the working committee’s meeting on monday where it resolved that Tolashe should resign as an MP and the president of the ANC’s woman league
Arsenal demand £20m for Gabriel Jesus, Man City prioritise move for Elliot Anderson, RB Leipzig adamant Liverpool target Yan Diomande is going nowhere, plus more.
Treasury select committee hears that interest rate and repayment terms are ‘extortionate’ and ‘not reasonable’
Thousands of graduates have told an official inquiry their horror stories and bad experiences relating to student loans, underlining what the chair of an MPs’ committee called massive levels of “frustration and upset”.
Amid an ongoing row over the ballooning cost of degree course...
The American Federation of Teachers recommended “no screens” at all for those in second grade or younger, and no A.I. chatbots for students in elementary school.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff with the Tech...
YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos when its systems detect “significant” photorealistic AI use, while also making AI-content disclosures more visible below long-form videos and directly on Shorts. “We’ve heard consistently from our community that they value transparency when it comes to generative AI content,” YouTube said in a blog post. “These changes are designed to balance...
Roku is rolling out its first major homescreen update in a decade. The UI doesn’t look too dramatically different, but users will notice more personalization-driven changes, including frequently used apps, “top picks,” household-specific layouts, and recommendations based on viewing habits. Rest assured, Engadget adds, “Everything is still in various shades of purple and Roku City is still...
Drew Altman, who transformed KFF from a little-known family foundation to a major source of U.S. health policy research, will step down at the end of the year.
The types of Ebola and hantavirus panicking officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.
BBC Radio Sheffield presenter Ellie Colton’s symptoms of endometriosis started when she was a young teenager. But she wasn’t diagnosed until she was 24.