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FEEDING THE FUTURE: Daily Maverick and SA Harvest’s food campaign — Restoring dignity and hope this festive season

Today at 18:58 PM, via Daily Maverick

This year, Daily Maverick and SA Harvest have embarked on their third annual campaign to combat hunger in the Eastern Cape, and we need your help to make it a success. In a heartfelt interview, SA Harvest CEO Ozzy Nel reflects on how this incredible journey began with just R35,000 and a dream — and how it has grown to give hope to thousands of families. Over the past two years, your...

South Africa

OpenAI in Talks With Amazon Over Potential Investment and AI Chip Partnership

Today at 17:23 PM, via iAfrica

OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon over a potential investment and an agreement to use the company’s artificial intelligence chips, CNBC confirmed on Tuesday. The details remain fluid and subject to change, but the investment could exceed $10 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because the […]

South Africa

Zambia Convenes Executive AI Briefing to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption in 2025

Today at 17:20 PM, via iAfrica

Zambia has taken a step toward accelerating enterprise-level artificial intelligence adoption following an executive AI briefing convened by the Ministry of Technology and Science in partnership with Pranary. The Executive Artificial Intelligence Briefing, held on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, brought together 30 senior decision-makers for a focused discussion on deploying AI at scale in 2025. […]

Africa

Five of the greatest players never to win Afcon

Today at 15:25 PM, via BBC News

As two-time runner-up Mohamed Salah prepares for another tilt at the Africa Cup of Nations, BBC Sport Africa profiles other stars who never lifted the trophy.

Education

Britain rejoining Erasmus+ won’t halt the nativist tide – but it’s a step in the right direction | Julian Baggini

Today at 19:30 PM, via The Guardian

In an era of rising nationalism, this move represents a brief flicker of hope for the internationalist ideal

‘I am a citizen of the world,” so the great Renaissance thinker Desiderius Erasmus is reputed to have said. It is because of his cosmopolitanism that 521 years after his birth, the EU named its exchange programme for students after him. It was part of a project aiming to create...

Education

How will Erasmus work for the UK and who can take part?

Today at 17:58 PM, via The Guardian

The UK’s membership explained as it prepares to rejoin the EU education and training programme it left after Brexit

The UK is to rejoin Erasmus, the European Union’s education and training scheme, five years after the country pulled out following Brexit. The move will allow UK institutions to tap into Erasmus’s wide network of training, educational and cultural opportunities, with the UK...

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 17 December 2025

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

How We Ingest Plastic Chemicals While Consuming Food

Today at 19:38 PM, via Slashdot

A comprehensive database built by scientists in Switzerland and Norway has catalogued 16,000 chemicals linked to plastic materials, and the findings paint a troubling picture of what Americans are actually eating when they prepare food in their kitchens. Of those 16,000 chemicals, more than 5,400 are considered hazardous to human health by government and industry standards, while just 161 are...

Science/Tech

Rare pink fog blankets parts of UK with warning issued over poor visibility

Today at 19:23 PM, via The Guardian

The unusual phenomenon is caused by sunlight passing through layers of fog

The skies over parts of Britain turned a soft shade of pink on Wednesday morning as the low sun shone through layers of widespread fog to produce the rare atmospheric treat.

Meteorologists at the Met Office said the fog formed when temperatures dropped overnight and issued a yellow warning across a large area of central...

Science/Tech

Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado

Today at 18:59 PM, via The Guardian

Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’

The Trump administration is breaking up a research center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research after accusing it of spreading “alarmism” about climate change.

Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office and management budget, said the National Center for Atmospheric Research...

Science/Tech

Coursera Acquires Udemy For $930 Million

Today at 18:49 PM, via Slashdot

Coursera announced on Wednesday that it will acquire rival online learning platform Udemy in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $2.5 billion, a move that brings together two of the largest U.S.-based players in an industry that has struggled since pandemic-era enrollment highs faded. Under the terms of the agreement, Udemy shareholders will receive 0.8 shares of Coursera for...