When the case of a man who had escaped from a North West prison back in 2010 while serving an eight-year sentence remained unsolved and was later relegated to the cold case unit, it took Sgt Morongwa Koboekae only a few days to find the prisoner.
More than half of South Africans want a key policy aimed at addressing racial inequality scrapped and hiring and promotions to be merit-based, according to the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.
New Ballymena United manager Oran Kearney says he wants to see his side make gradual progression and senses “a big opportunity” as he prepares to take charge of the Sky Blues for the first time against Portadown on Saturday.
Bayern Munich plan to hold talks with Marc Guehi about a potential move, Tottenham will try to sell Yves Bissouma in January, Aston Villa looking to send Harvey Elliot back to Liverpool, plus more.
[InfoWire] Writing academic assignments at university can be stressful, especially if it is your first time preparing a full research paper. Many African students face real barriers: limited access to digital libraries, tight deadlines, balancing school with work, and adapting to strict academic standards. Yet with the right approach, anyone can learn how to write a research paper that is...
[InfoWire] Africa’s higher-education sector keeps growing, and many universities in Africa now appear in global rankings every year. Students seeking the best universities in Africa today can choose from long-established institutions and new schools expanding fast across science, technology, business, and the arts. The continent’s top institutions attract learners from Africa and abroad because...
Bridget Phillipson says £3bn scheme focussed on local state schools will ‘transform lives’, after rise in parent appeals
The government is to invest £3bn in creating bespoke places within local state schools for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), a crucial part of its efforts to grapple with England’s rising numbers of children facing social and mental health...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, was sentenced in New York federal court on Thursday to 15 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. Kwon, 34, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, previously...
Longtime Slashdot reader Gilmoure shares a report from Nature: Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth. The dataset, published in the open-access journal Earth System Science Data on December 1, covers 2.75...
South Africa’s largest public sector trade union has voiced its support for a plan to replace the country’s physical driver’s licences with a new digital system.
The vaccines were found to decrease the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76 percent in children under 4, and by 56 percent in children 5 to 17.