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India v Pakistan

Today at 10:31 AM, via Al Jazeera

One of the fiercest rivalries in sport

Africa

Mpina’s removal from Tanzania’s presidential race boosts Samia’s reelection chances

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Mail & Guardian

Tanzania’s 2025 general elections campaign has taken a dramatic turn after the removal of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT Wazalendo) party’s candidate — former minister and outspoken legislator Luhaga Mpina — from the presidential race.  The decision announced by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) is widely seen as strengthening President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s […]

Business

SARS wants to avoid another Capitec loss

Today at 11:00 AM, via BusinessTech

The National Treasury wants to iron out the small ambiguities that exist in South Africa’s finance laws that led to a bruising VAT loss for SARS against banking group Capitec in 2024.

Business

Private school fee warning for South Africa

Today at 10:08 AM, via BusinessTech

Private schools across South Africa are warning of dire financial consequences if proposed changes to VAT rules are implemented.

Business

One final twist for South Africa’s e-toll saga

Today at 09:45 AM, via BusinessTech

Thousands of legal cases against motorists who defied the e-toll system are still open. Outa wants Sanral and the government to finalise things.

Business

Momentum breaks profit record

Today at 09:04 AM, via BusinessTech

Momentum Group has hit record earnings, with the group looking to increase its total share buybacks to R3 billion.

Education

I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe

Today at 10:00 AM, via The Guardian

I knocked on doors, spoke to people about their hopes and concerns, and wrote poetry to share with them. It could and should be an art form for everyone

When I first suggested knocking on strangers’ doors and offering to write a poem for them, for nothing, on any subject of their choosing, the responses weren’t exactly enthusiastic. I’m from Heaton in Newcastle upon Tyne, where the...

Education

A moment that changed me: I was a gobby teen who lived to win. Then I lost a contest – and found the real me

Today at 07:55 AM, via The Guardian

I should have been devastated when I came third in a public speaking competition. But the joy that came out of nowhere has shaped the rest of my life

“I am a teenager, living in an age with war, corruption, discrimination, racism, sexism. But no one seems angry about it. People see the slight advances towards equal society as having solved our issues entirely and it just isn’t enough.”

It’s...

Science/Tech

China Tells Its Tech Companies To Stop Buying All of Nvidia’s AI Chips

Today at 10:43 AM, via Slashdot

China’s internet regulator has told the country’s biggest technology companies to stop buying all of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips and terminate their existing orders, as Beijing steps up efforts to boost its homegrown semiconductor industry and compete with the US. From a report: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) informed companies including ByteDance and Alibaba this week...