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VIDEO: Watch – How Cape Town families found loved ones in paupers’ graves

Today at 09:19 AM, via Daily Maverick

Paupers’ graves are meant for the forgotten. But what happens when the people buried there were never forgotten at all? In Cape Town, an undertaker’s alleged fraud has exposed a failure of the systems meant to protect the dead – and devastated those left behind. Rebecca Davis explains.

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I finally took a tour of Ponte

Today at 09:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The city landmark is not just a story about urban decay. It is also about what happens when a city loses control and what it takes to get that back

Africa

One house, two faiths, one fasting season

Thursday at 14:40 PM, via BBC News

Ramadan and Lent haven’t overlapped since 1993 and couples like Olanrewaju and Kaosara in Nigeria are observing them together.

Sport

Should the Winter Paralympics be moved?

Today at 08:23 AM, via BBC News

With more sunshine seen than snow at the Winter Paralympics, calls for the Games to move in the calendar grow stronger.

Sport

Kaizer Chiefs winger makes personal admission 

Today at 07:55 AM, via The South African

Exciting Kaizer Chiefs winger Asanele Velebayi has admitted what many Amakhosi supporters have already noticed: the final product still needs to arrive.

Education

Phillipson accuses lawyers of exploiting parents of children with special needs

Friday at 18:22 PM, via The Guardian

Education secretary has claimed lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profit

Lawyers have been accused of exploiting parents of children with special needs by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, who claimed their criticisms of the government’s policy changes were motivated by profit.

Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)...

Science/Tech

Will AI Bring ‘the End of Computer Programming As We Know It’?

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

Long-time tech journalist Clive Thompson interviewed over 70 software developers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and start-ups for a new article on AI-assisted programming. It’s title? “Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It.” Published in the prestigious New York Times Magazine, the article even cites long-time programming guru Kent Beck saying LLMs got him going again...

Science/Tech

America’s First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

It’s America’s first large-scale offshore wind project, reports WBUR — enough clean energy to power 400,000 homes in Massachusetts from 62 offshore wind turbines generating 800 megawatts. But it took a while… The plant’s first construction delay happened back in 2019, they point out — and then “Just three months ago, when the project was 95% complete, the U.S. Interior Department issued a...

Science/Tech

How a Raspberry Pi Saved the Super Nintendo’s Infamously Inferior Version Of ‘Doom’

Today at 01:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel,” writes Kotaku — especially with the console’s underpowered “Super FX” coprocessorHampered by a nearly unplayable framerate, especially in later levels, and mired by sacrifices, like altered levels, no floor or ceiling textures, and the entire fourth...

Science/Tech

How a Raspberry Pi Microcontroller Saved the Super Nintendo’s Infamously Inferior Version Of ‘Doom’

Today at 01:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel,” writes Kotaku — especially with the console’s underpowered “Super FX” coprocessorHampered by a nearly unplayable framerate, especially in later levels, and mired by sacrifices, like altered levels, no floor or ceiling textures, and the entire fourth...

Motoring

5 ways to save petrol in South Africa

Yesterday at 08:40 AM, via TopAuto

South Africa could be facing massive petrol price hikes next month due to the conflict in the Middle East, making it more important than ever for motorists to conserve fuel.

Health

How Safe Is Plasma Donation?

Friday at 18:07 PM, via New York Times

Two recent deaths tied to for-profit clinics in Canada raised concerns about the health effects of having plasma drawn as often as twice a week.

Health

E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on Ethylene Oxide

Friday at 17:32 PM, via New York Times

The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer and other ailments.