
Former law firm employee jailed for 7 years over R13m fraud
The accounts secretary created fake beneficiaries and manipulated banking records to conceal large transfers from client trust accounts.
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The accounts secretary created fake beneficiaries and manipulated banking records to conceal large transfers from client trust accounts.
Interest rate traders moved to price in a chance of a South African interest rate hike later this month as the Iran conflict pushed oil prices higher, reviving concerns about inflation.

Chief medical adviser warns of side-effects and calls for action on junk food advertising and making food healthier
Weight-loss drugs cannot rescue the UK from its deepening obesity crisis and produce unpleasant side-effects for many users, the government’s chief medical adviser has said.
Prof Chris Whitty delivered a wide-ranging critique of the drugs during a speech in London on Thursday...
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England’s top doctor says the drugs should be for a minority and more effort is needed to prevent obesity in the first place.
The National Videogame Museum has acquired an extremely rare MSF-1 development kit, believed to be the oldest surviving prototype of the canceled Nintendo PlayStation. Engadget reports: Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the cartridge-based Super NES, resulting in a hybrid console that could play both. The partnership...

Jesse Lingard joins Corinthians, but what can the former England and Manchester United midfielder expect in Brazil?

Iran will not take part in the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics, the IPC confirms, as the nation’s solitary athlete scheduled to compete “cannot travel safely to Italy”.

Some opted to remain in Iran, even after their government offered to bring them home.

A report into traffic and crowd management at the event last May calls for tighter rules on flares.

Do you know the important difference between open and closed AI?

The star made the kind gesture for his former school in the village of Holmes Chapel in Cheshire.

Berlin (PinionNewswire) — Coyotiv and OpenServ Labs published a research paper introducing BRAID (Bounded Reasoning for Autonomous Inference and Decisions), a framework that replaces free-form AI reasoning with structured logic graphs. The result: up to 99% reasoning accuracy and up to 74x Performance per Dollar (PPD) improvements all validated across three rigorous benchmarks. The core […]

Carrim’s lawyer says he received death threats before testifying at the Madlanga Commission Monday.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a central driver of today’s digital economy. Behind the impressive breakthroughs in generative AI, Natural Language Processing, and predictive analytics lies an even bigger story: the massive investments being made in AI infrastructure. Cloud hyperscalers, chipmakers, and global tech players are pouring billions into data centres, high-performance...

Kaizer Chiefs will have to either win the league or finish second in order to return to the CAF Champions League, but is this realistic?

Kenya’s Ministry of Health plans to integrate artificial intelligence into the country’s community health system to improve service delivery and help frontline health workers make faster, better-informed decisions. The ministry said it will collaborate with Barcelona-based Causal Foundry to deploy AI across three key areas: managing health data, guiding clinical decisions and enhancing...

In completing the set of centuries across all formats despite T20 World Cup semi-final defeat by India, Jacob Bethell shows why he is integral to England’s future, writes Matthew Henry.
Crude prices surged higher Friday as oil fields in Iraq came under attack and US Donald Trump demanded Iran’s unconditional surrender.

President Cyril Ramaphosa orders flags at half-mast nationwide until the burial of Mosioua Lekota.

The telecommunications firm implements tariff adjustments across its mobile and fixed portfolios, effective 1 April.