The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) reported 1,750 complaints against property practitioners in the past financial year, highlighting a rise in bogus unregistered agents. These scams often involve advertising properties without owner consent and collecting payments from multiple buyers for the same property. While PPRA handles complaints involving actual properties and...
Over a year after the Minister of Tourism said she would regulate short-term rentals in Cape Town to remedy the housing crisis, she now says she is not empowered to do so.
A researcher at the University of Cape Town has received an international research grant to examine whether artificial intelligence can improve employment prospects for unemployed young people in South Africa. Dr. Tim Köhler, a senior research officer at the Development Policy Research Unit in UCT’s School of Economics, is one of 19 early-career researchers selected […]
This is the fourth Winter Olympics for the married U.S. ice dancing pair Madison Chock and Evan Bates, and likely their last, best shot at a medal. They have two as part of the team competition, but not on their own.
Benedict Vilakazi, formerly an Orlando Pirates superstar, has delivered his verdict on Andre De Jong following the striker’s first start for the Buccaneers.
Policy announced in autumn budget freezes threshold at which students start repaying university loans
Protesters dressed as sharks and in Rachel Reeves face masks gathered outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to express their anger over changes to their student loans and their ballooning debt.
The demonstration by members of the National Union of Students (NUS) characterised the...
[Nile Post] School administrators in Luweero District, particularly in government-aided schools, have urged parents to send pupils back to school promptly, warning that delayed reporting is hurting learners academically now that classes have resumed.
[Nile Post] Several schools in Tororo District registered low learner turnout on the first day of reopening for the 2026 academic year, raising concern among education administrators over potential disruptions to learning.
[Nile Post] Schools across Kamwenge District reopened today for the first term of 2026, following a one-week delay from the original academic calendar.
An anonymous reader shares a report: An Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the “world is in peril” in part over AI advances. Mrinank Sharma said the safety team “constantly [faces] pressures to set aside what matters most,” citing concerns about bioterrorism and other risks. Anthropic was founded with the explicit goal of creating safe AI; its CEO Dario Amodei said at Davos that AI...
Ring’s Super Bowl ad on Sunday promoted “Search Party,” a feature that lets a user post a photo of a missing dog in the Ring app and triggers outdoor Ring cameras across the neighborhood to use AI to scan for a match. 404 Media argues the cheerful premise obscures what the Amazon-owned company has become: a massive, consumer-deployed surveillance network. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who left...
BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Mint developers say they are considering adopting a longer development cycle, arguing that the project’s current six month cadence plus LMDE releases leaves too little room for deeper work. In a recent update, the team reflected on its incremental philosophy, independence from upstream decisions like Snap, and heavy investment in Cinnamon and XApp. While the...
Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.
The states, all led by Democrats, claim the cuts were intended as retribution and will harm efforts to control H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections.
The country’s confirmed cases have topped 9,000 since last year, raising fears that a high-stakes evaluation in April could lead to its status being revoked.