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Madlanga to issue warrant for Brown Mogotsi’s arrest if he submits bogus doctor’s sicknote

Today at 10:52 AM, via SowetanLIVE

The Madlanga commission is considering issuing an arrest warrant for Brown Mogotsi if he fails to provide a valid medical certificate after claiming illness at the last minute. Mogotsi, who has made dubious claims about being a police intelligence agent, previously retracted statements about high-profile figures allegedly working for the CIA.

Business

Major bank in South Africa up for sale

Today at 11:00 AM, via BusinessTech

Bidvest has formally relaunched the sale process for its discontinued banking operation, in the hope of finding a new buyer after its sale to Access Bank collapsed.

Education

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile

In order to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary in which many of them have starring roles, pupils at Karabash School No 1 have had to source bootlegged copies, viewing the...

Education

Botswana: Govt Feeds 400 000 Learners – Gaolathe

Today at 07:19 AM, via AllAfrica

[Botswana Daily News] Tlokweng — Botswana feeds nearly 400,000 learners each year through its school feeding programme, supported by over USD100 million about P1.3 billion in national funding.

Lifestyle

Sacha FM and Sarah Langa: What is their age gap?

Yesterday at 23:51 PM, via The South African

Age aint nothing but a number? Here is the age-difference between model Sarah Langa and Springbok flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu…

Science/Tech

Does a New Theory Finally Explain the Mysteries of the Planet Saturn?

Today at 10:36 AM, via Slashdot

“Saturn and some of its 274 moons are pretty weird,” writes Smithsonian magazine:[Saturn moon] Titan has strangely few impact craters, Hyperion is tiny and misshapen, and Iapetus has a tilted orbit. What’s more, planets tend to wobble along their rotational axes as they spin, like an off-kilter spinning top in the moments before it topples over. Formally called precession, scientists have long...

Science/Tech

‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?

Today at 10:00 AM, via The Guardian

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be discovered

Once Art Borkent starts speaking about biting midges, he rarely pauses for breath. Holding up a picture of a gnat trapped in amber from the time of the dinosaurs, the 72-year-old...

Health

Banks Are Becoming Bulwarks for Vulnerable Seniors

Saturday at 15:23 PM, via New York Times

Older Americans are losing billions of dollars annually to financial exploitation. Banks and investment firms are training employees to spot red flags and stop the transactions.