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GQEBERHA ‘HIT’: A year later, no arrests for the killing of Muhsin Hendricks, SA’s first openly gay imam

Today at 21:34 PM, via Daily Maverick

Crimes committed against members of the LGBTQIA+ community, including the murder of the first openly gay imam Muhsin Hendricks (58), raise serious concerns about the persistent failure to adequately investigate and prosecute alleged hate crimes. Hendricks was murdered in February 2025, and to date, no arrests have been made, reinforcing fears that violence targeting LGBTQIA+ people continues to...

Business

End of the road for TV Licences in South Africa

Today at 16:57 PM, via BusinessTech

Minister of Communication and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi says that South Africa’s TV Licence regime has all but collapsed, and details on a new scheme will be presented to the department next month.

Sport

Wales trio wait on Six Nations coaching choice

Today at 21:28 PM, via BBC News

Dragons duo Dan Lydiate and Rhys Patchell joined Ospreys coach Duncan Jones in Steve Tandy’s backroom staff for Wales’ autumn internationals.

Education

Teachers strike at two Greater Manchester primary schools over ‘culture of violence’

Today at 19:42 PM, via The Guardian

NASUWT members at Ravensfield and Lily Lane primary schools are staging nine-day walkout over ‘almost daily’ attacks by pupils

Teachers at two primary schools in Greater Manchester say they have been driven to strike because of “almost daily” attacks by pupils, leaving parents bewildered by the industrial action.

Members of the NASUWT teaching union at Ravensfield and Lily Lane primary schools...

Education

Kenya: Shofco Awards 6,504 Full Scholarships to Students in Informal, Marginalised Areas

Today at 19:05 PM, via AllAfrica

[Capital FM] Nairobi — As schools reopen across the country for the 2026 academic year, thousands of students from informal settlements and marginalised communities in 11 counties are returning to classrooms with renewed hope following the award of full scholarships by Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO).

Science/Tech

TV Makers Are Taking AI Too Far

Today at 21:24 PM, via Slashdot

TV manufacturers at CES 2026 in Las Vegas this week unveiled a wave of AI features that frequently consume significant screen space and take considerable time to deliver results — all while global TV shipments declined 0.6% year over year in Q3, according to Omdia. Google demonstrated Veo generating video from a photo on a television, a process that took about two minutes to produce eight...

Science/Tech

‘Gifted learner dogs’ can learn words by eavesdropping, study says

Today at 21:00 PM, via The Guardian

Certain canines can learn using cues from people’s gaze, gestures, attention and voices, researchers find

Whether it is a piece of food or a four-letter expletive, words can be learned by young children overhearing adults – but now researchers have found certain dogs can do something similar.

Scientists have discovered canines with the unusual ability to learn the names of myriad objects can...