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Former Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron has officially been installed as the chancellor of Stellenbosch University.

Ukraine’s first war crimes trial opens and the EU pledges to spend up to €300bn to end its reliance on Russian gas.

The Western Cape High Court heard Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s application for interdicts against Parliament continuing with its impeachment process and President Cyril Ramaphosa suspending her.

Burundi’s approach to dealing with perceived enablers of armed opposition groups and suspected members has been condemned as “heavy-handed” by Human Rights Watch in a recently released report.

The newly conferred Stellenbosch University Chancellor, Justice Edwin Cameron, says the university community deserves an institution that is free of discrimination.

Ideally, a 15kg carton of lemons takes 100, 113, or 138 lemons; with the current sizes, only 88 lemons fill up the boxes.

A Russian soldier pleaded guilty to killing a Ukrainian civilian in the opening stages of Moscow’s invasion during the first war-crimes trial held since the war began.

A senior Taliban official has repeated the group’s as-yet-unfulfilled pledge to allow girls back into high school, saying there would be “good news soon,” but suggested that women who protested the regime’s restrictions on women rights should stay home.

Clashes between Tajik security forces and “terrorists” killed nine people and wounded two dozen in a restive region bordering Afghanistan and China, the interior ministry said.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday criticized the Trump administration’s tariffs on China and voiced support for lifting the levies, in part to ease very high inflation pressuring the US economy.

Namibia could destroy at least 330 000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine by October to add to the 318 000 doses, worth an estimated R27 million, that have already been destroyed since last year.

A study suggests that the virtual world platform could plug more than 40 billion US dollars into the African economy in its first decade.

They have been trapped in a zinc mine for the last month is still ongoing.

Paris St-Germain’s Idrissa Gueye refused to play in a match to avoid wearing a rainbow symbol in support of LGBTQ+ rights BBC Sport understands.

Oil and gas producers say they are already paying more tax and an extra levy would damage confidence.

Mr Shkreli was convicted in 2017 of defrauding investors.

Bank hopes crypto assets could be regulated within 15 months.

Expected higher interest rate and cost environment suppressing sentiment: economist.

Former Joburg Mayor Mpho Moerane has passed away. His family has confirmed this at the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.

Advocate Dali Mpofu, legal counsel to the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has argued that suspending her while impeachment proceedings are ongoing would be punitive and damaging to her reputation.

The family of the former Johannesburg mayor and ANC Gauteng treasurer Mpho Moerane says he is unconscious.

DA deputy chief whip Siviwe Gwarube said this is an important step for transparency and accountability.

We’ve heard many unconfirmed reports. This Orlando Pirates former goalkeeper has now revealed alcohol drinking in the PSL is real.

Kaizer Chiefs interim coach Arthur Zwane has suggested that there could be a new top man coming in sooner rather than later.

Legendary former Bafana Bafana defender Lucas Radebe has called for a major change in football administrative leadership with the looming South African Football Association elective congress.

The un-deserving Burger Odendaal’s final contribution for the Lions looks set to be his shocking off-load in last weekend’s Currie Cup derby at Loftus.

Academics and student leaders tell committee black students and staff face ‘ingrained institutional racism’

Academics and student leaders have told MPs of their frustration at the denial of and the lack of practical action to tackle the “ingrained institutional racism” experienced by black students and staff on university campuses.

Nicola Rollock, a professor of social policy and race at...

“If you are black or a woman, you don’t see yourself fitting in,” a leading female physicist says.

Two government advisers claim the subject seems ‘scary’ and ‘hard’, while academics warn of ‘mathematics anxiety’. Would changing a few names really help?

Name: Good question. Let’s go with “the discipline formerly known as maths”.

Age: About 2,500 years old.

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If you’ve missed gawking at human cannonballs and unicycling clowns under a figurative big top while the smell of popcorn wafts through the air, you’re in luck: The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus is being revived less than a decade after it shuttered.

Pearl Jam’s drummer Matt Cameron says his quotes in a “Rolling Stone” article that published about Taylor Hawkins’ final days were “taken out of context.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared via video during opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in France, giving a speech about the importance of filmmaking in the midst of war.

The way people buy automobiles is changing—so Honda and other manufacturers are adapting in kind.

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Scientists and federal health officials are debating plans to pair coronavirus and flu vaccinations in the fall.

Researchers analyzed the largest database of private insurance claims in the United States in the first four months after a diagnostic code for long Covid was created.

Four years after the first buffer zone outside a clinic only two more have followed in England.

International recruitment hits record high with nurse leaders warning about sustainability of trend.

Staff at a £14m recycling facility help manually sort through 85,000 tonnes of waste each year.

Efforts to protect these beautiful insects include driving electric tractors and hand-rearing them in a lab.

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Scientists say more could have been done to make lateral flow tests widely recyclable.