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...
Director-General for Basic Education Hubert Mathanzima Mweli responds to recent claims about the ‘political theatre’ surrounding the annual announcement of the matric pass rate, arguing that attempts to present a narrative of decline in education are ‘misleading’.
In the midst of the urban decay in Johannesburg’s inner-eastern suburbs, something remarkable is growing. A once-neglected field in Bez Valley has been transformed into a working, thoughtful and increasingly thriving urban farm known as Marais-BezValley-garden
President Trump sidelined Venezuela’s opposition and is working with remnants of the regime led by ousted leader Nicolás Maduro. What’s next for the opposition?
Church leaders have dismissed a complaint against Sarah Mullally, the incoming leader of the Church of England, which had accused her of mishandling an abuse allegation, the church confirmed on Thursday.
The organisers of a professional women’s tournament which has gone viral because of a wildcard player’s poor performance acknowledge she should not have been allowed to play.
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.
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...
[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).
[Ghanaian Times] An octogenarian and retired business executive, Mr Godwin Kwashie Anagbo, has appealed to the government to totally, or at least partially, wash its hands off mission schools to save money for national development.
The promise of AI-powered workplace tools that sort emails, take meeting notes, and file expense reports is finally delivering meaningful productivity gains — one software startup reported a 20% boost around mid-2025 — but companies are discovering an unexpected tradeoff: employees are burning out from the relentless pace of high-level cognitive work. Roger Kirkness, CEO of 14-person software...
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...
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...
