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US President-elect Trump sidestepped agreements that would require donor disclosures and vetting for government picks.

The Eastern Cape government plans to collect more than R320 million in the current financial year from patients transferred from public to private healthcare facilities, after they regained consciousness from being in a critical condition.

To achieve sustainable crime statistic results, the long-standing policing model that favours large numbers of low-skilled officers over a smaller, more professional service needs to be overhauled urgently, an expert has said.

Street robberies in the Kalk Bay region are on the rise, with recent muggings, including an attack on a German couple, intensifying concerns.

The Southern Cross community is in distress after the sudden disappearances of two prominent baboons, Madala and Quinton, leaving the local baboon troop in turmoil.

Almost a million of the registered voters for Namibia’s general elections on Wednesday are below the age of 42, and there are more women than men registered to vote, according to the Namibian Electoral Commission.

Anglo American is selling another 6% of its platinum business in a move aimed at increasing the South African unit’s free float ahead of a full exit.

SA’s second-biggest private hospital group Life Healthcare has delivered a bumper R10.6 billion in shareholder payouts for 2024.

Nongoma Local Municipality Mayor Clifford Ndabandaba has appeared in the Nongoma Magistrate’s Court on corruption charges alongside his deputy, Sabelo Nkosi, as well the speaker, Babongile Sithole, and three others.

Over the next five years, the National Assembly’s finance committee will do more than just follow taxpayers’ money that has been mismanaged, it also wants to prevent corruption from inception, according to the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Songezo Zibi.

[The Herald] Bubbling with high spirits, First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, who was last week capped with a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD) in Tourism and Hospitality Management at Midlands State University, said her achievement is a testament to her perseverance and determination which can inspire others to push beyond their limits.

[Africa Check] Ene Obi first female president of student union at University of Jos in Nigeria, not Pwajok Kalang in 2024

[Observer] On November 20, Uganda joined the global community to commemorate World Children’s Day with a focus on how children can harness technology to amplify their voices and address pressing societal issues.

Uber’s gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. According to Bloomberg, “The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial intellgience development to independent contractors.” From the report: Its new AI training and data labeling division, called Scaled Solutions, builds on an internal team that...

Despite significant enterprise AI hype, most job seekers remain unconvinced of its benefits, with 69% doubting its ability to enhance work performance and 62% skeptical it reduces workloads. The findings come from a study conducted by Resume Genius. The Register reports: Consistent with the majority opinion that AI in the workplace has failed to impress, only 34 percent of respondents said they...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Huawei has announced its new Mate 70 series smartphone lineup, which will be the first offered with the company’s new HarmonyOS Next operating system that doesn’t rely on Google’s Android services and won’t run any Android apps, according to a report by Reuters. The four models of the Mate 70 also don’t feature any US hardware following a half...

The drug, which is named MariTide and delivered in a monthly injection, is years from being sold, but caused an average of up to 20 percent weight loss in a small group of patients.

Researchers are trying to understand why resistant pathogens are so prevalent in the war-torn nations of the Middle East.

And it’s on the rise among middle-aged drinkers.

The proposed rule could give millions of Americans access to the new drugs; it would also put pressure on the federal budget.

How much does cutting down on carbon emissions, by doing things like using public transport, walking or cycling, really save? COP29 was a good place to find out. Our team tracked their steps and calculated how much carbon they emitted — and saved.

COP is expensive and shameful, not only because of the large delegations of government officials that travel there to achieve so little, but also because of the global activist corps that makes up a big part of the 50 000 registered participants, writes Carol Paton.

The COP29 talks to persuade the rich world to pay for climate damage ended uneasily in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday

Developing countries have responded with fury to the rich world’s $250-billion year offer of financial support to deal with the impact of climate change, an amount that falls far short of the $1.3 trillion that poorer countries had proposed.