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THURSDAY, 08 JANUARY 2026, 19:07

Business

End of the road for TV Licences in South Africa

Today at 16:57 PM, via BusinessTech

Minister of Communication and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi says that South Africa’s TV Licence regime has all but collapsed, and details on a new scheme will be presented to the department next month.

Education

Kenya: President Ruto Holds High-Level Talks On Education Reforms

Today at 14:19 PM, via AllAfrica

[Capital FM] Nairobi — President William Ruto on Wednesday convened Education Ministry stakeholders at State House, Nairobi, in a high-level meeting aimed at addressing key challenges in Kenya’s education sector, including school funding, reforms, and policy implementation.

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 8 January 2026

Today at 18:30 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

Germany’s Dying Forests Are Losing Their Ability To Absorb CO2

Today at 18:45 PM, via Slashdot

Germany’s Harz mountains, once known for their verdant spruce forests, have become a graveyard of skeletal trunks after a bark beetle outbreak ravaged the region starting in 2018 — an infestation made possible by successive droughts and heatwaves that fatally weakened the trees. Between 2018 and 2021, Germany lost half a million hectares of forest, nearly 5% of the country’s total. Since 2010,...

Science/Tech

China Hacked Email Systems of US Congressional Committee Staff

Today at 18:02 PM, via Slashdot

China has hacked the emails used by congressional staff on powerful committees in the US House of Representatives, as part of a massive cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon. An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese intelligence accessed email systems used by some staffers [non-paywalled source] on the House China committee in addition to aides on the foreign affairs committee,...