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Power outage to hit 20 Johannesburg areas

Today at 08:17 AM, via SA People

City Power Johannesburg will implement an 8-hour planned power outage that will affect 20 areas across the city on Saturday, 20 September 2025.

Africa

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

Tuesday 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

3,000MW blow to Eskom

Today at 07:42 AM, via BusinessTech

The Supreme Court has annulled a government permit allowing state utility Eskom to build a 3,000MW power plant.

Science/Tech

Smartphones Become Mining Machines: EARN Mining’s XRP Cloud Mining Helps Investors Achieve Whale-Sized Returns

Today at 09:10 AM, via Tech Financials

XRP has created enormous buzz in the institutional investor communities in the past few years. The large-scale accumulation emphasizes the trust institutional investors have in Ripple’s technology and the long-term value of the token itself. Retail investors are also discovering new opportunities through EARN Mining’s mobile app, which allows retail access with fewer hurdles to […]

Science/Tech

Color-Changing Organogel Stretches 46 Times Its Size and Self-Heals

Today at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Scientists from Taiwan have developed a new material that can stretch up to 4,600% of its original length before breaking. Even if it does break, gently pressing the pieces together at room temperature allows it to heal, fully restoring its shape and stretchability within 10 minutes. The sticky and stretchy polyurethane (PU) organogels were...

Science/Tech

SuperSport at 30

Today at 08:59 AM, via MyBroadband

SuperSport launched as a standalone sports channel 30 years ago and has grown to become the dominant sports broadcaster in sub-Saharan Africa.

Science/Tech

Green Hydrogen Could Be The Missing Link In Powering The Future Of Tech

Today at 08:45 AM, via Tech Financials

Green hydrogen has numerous applications across multiple industries, from decarbonising steel to fertiliser production, fuelling heavy transport, storing renewable energy for grid stability, and supplying cleaner feedstock to refineries and chemical plants. However, beyond these use cases, it also has the potential to provide a clean energy source to power future technology, with far-reaching...

Health

Support for Federal Vaccine Policy May Be Eroding

Today at 00:41 AM, via New York Times

Insurers suggested they would still cover routine shots even if a C.D.C. panel tried to limit them, as an influential senator warned against new restrictions.

Health

5 Takeaways From Ousted C.D.C. Director’s Hearing

Today at 00:06 AM, via New York Times

Susan Monarez, the head of the public health agency for barely a month, repeatedly told senators that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was ignoring science in undercutting vaccines.