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MINING INDABA 2026: Mantashe’s cadastre roll-out still proceeding at a geological pace

Today at 23:05 PM, via Daily Maverick

During his opening remarks at the Indaba, Minerals and Petroleum Minister Gwede Mantashe said there were ‘data issues’ that were delaying the roll-out. There are many plausible explanations for issues on this front. One that comes to mind is the fact that mountains of paper have been reported to be seen strewn around the offices of regional departments such as Mpumalanga.

Sport

Will wounded Ireland shuffle pack for Italy game?

Today at 22:56 PM, via BBC News

Head coach Andy Farrell has largely been a loyal selector throughout his Ireland tenure but will last week’s heavy loss in Paris lead to changes for Italy in Dublin on Saturday?

Education

Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise

Today at 21:49 PM, via The Guardian

Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority

Reform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England’s largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase it by up to 9%.

Worcestershire is one of a handful of authorities whose requests to be allowed to increase local rates above...

Education

Nigeria: NCDMB, Yougrich Train 30 Delta Youths in Welding, Fabrication

Today at 18:29 PM, via AllAfrica

[Leadership] The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), in partnership with YougRich Heritage Nigeria Limited, has completed a one-month intensive training programme in welding and fabrication for 30 youths in Delta State.

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 9 February 2026

Today at 18:30 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

OpenAI Starts Running Ads in ChatGPT

Today at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI has started testing ads inside ChatGPT for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go subscription tiers in the United States, the company said. The Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education tiers remain ad-free. Ads are matched to users based on conversation topics, past chats, and prior ad interactions, and appear clearly labeled as “sponsored” and visually separated from ChatGPT’s...

Science/Tech

Sixteen AI Agents Built a C Compiler From Scratch

Today at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch, and the AI agents produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel on x86, ARM and RISC-V architectures. The project ran through nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and cost about $20,000 in API fees....

Science/Tech

Romance Publishing Has an AI Problem and Most Readers Don’t Know It Yet

Today at 21:01 PM, via Slashdot

The romance genre — long the publishing industry’s earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e-books to self-publishing to serial releases — has become the front line for AI-generated fiction, and the results as you can imagine are messy. Coral Hart, a Cape Town-based novelist previously published by Harlequin and Mills & Boon, produced more than 200 AI-assisted romance novels last year...