Captain Laurence Makgotloe, a SAPS forensic analyst facing charges for allegedly tampering with crucial ballistic evidence in the April 2024 murder of engineer Armand Swart, is now under renewed scrutiny amid claims that he had previously manipulated forensic evidence.
The departure of Bafana Bafana for their Fifa World Cup base camp in Mexico was supposed to be about the country’s first appearance at the tournament in 16 years, something this crop of players fought hard to achieve. Instead, the South African Football Association has snatched the spotlight with yet another episode of administrative ineptitude.
In the remote, rural regions of Elliotdale, Eastern Cape, the Nosintu Gwebindlala Foundation is combating generational statelessness by ‘walking the journey’ of securing IDs and birth certificates with residents.
A hackathon, workshops, and a conference built around one question. HACKATHON May 30 – June 6 · Free · Virtual + In-person (Lagos) The next Artificial Future hackathons bring together builders to creatively solve real African problems using AI — across four thematic areas: There is also a non-technical track for those working in data […]
[Nile Post] The Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda (PSU) has rejected key provisions of the National Education and Training for Health Policy 2025, calling for its suspension over concerns about internship integration, regulatory oversight and the readiness of university curricula.
[Nile Post] The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has established a Technical Working Group (TWG) to review the controversial National Education and Training for Health Policy 2025 and assess its implications before finalising its position on the framework.
[New Times] Mount Kigali University has called on graduates and young people to stand firm against genocide ideology and all forms of hate speech. The higher learning institution made the call as it joined the nation in the 32nd commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
[Daily News] Cambridge — Tanzania’s banking transformation and its broader macroeconomic impact took centre stage at the University of Cambridge recently.
A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
Microsoft has unveiled Scout, an experimental always-on AI “autopilot” agent for Microsoft 365 that can operate across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, calendars, contacts, browsers, and external apps via MCP. “Autopilots stay active in the background, understand how work gets done across your apps and systems, and take action without needing to be prompted each time,” said Omar Shahine, a...
Funding, co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, will scale engineering and product and deepen Sekai’s creator partnerships with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) SAN FRANCISCO— Sekai, the consumer platform where anyone can build software by describing what they want, today announced $26 million in Seed and Series A funding. The Series A of $20 million […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order asking artificial intelligence companies to provide models to the federal government to assess their capabilities ahead of a full release. The order asks companies, on a voluntary basis, to participate in a benchmarking process to assess a model’s “advanced cyber capabilities” and...