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Watch: Six Nations Rugby Special

Today at 19:47 PM, via BBC News

Highlights from this year’s Six Nations, including extended England v Wales analysis.

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POWER UP: Nelson Mandela Bay proposes 9% electricity tariff hike for 2026/27 amid R840m losses

Today at 19:42 PM, via Daily Maverick

Ratepayers in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro face higher bills as council seeks a 9% electricity tariff increase, citing past averages and awaiting Eskom’s bulk-tariff confirmation. Councillors are concerned that once Eskom has announced the bulk tariff, the increase is likely to be even higher when incorporated into the metro’s proposed figure.

Education

The Guardian view on student loans: a graduate levy by stealth is no way to fund the NHS | Editorial

Today at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at all

The personal finance expert Martin Lewis upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. He was right, and Ms Reeves’s...

Education

Schools that cultivate the mind but neglect spiritual education leave children unanchored in a challenging world | Kat Eghdamian

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetime

Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

As a parent, I want nothing more than for my children to grow into healthy, happy, purposeful human beings. Yet all around me – in classrooms, in conversation and in alarming...

Education

Lessons for America From Asia

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via New York Times

What if the valedictorians in our schools were the cool kids?

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48 hours in pictures, 8 February 2026

Today at 18:00 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

Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom?

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from the Associated Press:Even as China’s expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had in recent years — raising concern about whether the world’s largest emitter will reduce carbon emissions enough to limit climate change. More than 50 large coal units — individual...

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Scientists Explored Island Cave, Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants a Lost World

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

“A spectacular trove of fossils in a discovered in a cave on New Zealand’s North Island has given scientists their first glimpse of ancient forest species that lived there more than a million years ago,” reports Popular Mechanics:The fossils represent 12 ancient bird species and four frog species, including several previously unknown bird species. Taken together, the fossils paint a picture of...

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Eskom gets more big electricity price increases

Today at 18:12 PM, via MyBroadband

After it was ordered to conduct proper public consultation on additional allowable revenue for Eskom, Nersa has landed on the same figure that the High Court previously dubbed a “thumb-suck.”

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Cyber-Espionage Group Breached Systems in 37 Nations, Security Researchers Say

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg:An Asian cyber-espionage group has spent the past year breaking into computer systems belonging to governments and critical infrastructure organizations in more than 37 countries, according to the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, Inc. The state-aligned attackers have infiltrated networks of 70 organizations, including five national law...