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2026 LGE: Youth urged to take an active role in shaping their municipalities

The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) has urged young South Africans to register to vote ahead of the 2026 Local Government Elections and take an active role in shaping the future of their municipalities.

The call comes as South Africa marks Youth Month and prepares for the national voter...

Winter initiation season opens with renewed focus on safety

The official opening of the 2026 Winter Initiation Season in the Eastern Cape has been accompanied by renewed calls for safe, responsible and dignified initiation practices, as government intensifies efforts to eliminate deaths, injuries and illegal initiation schools.

According to a public notice issued by the Department...

Deputy President hosts Singapore President

Deputy President Paul Mashatile paid a courtesy call on the President of the Republic of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, on Monday in Johannesburg.

President Shanmugaratnam is on a Working Visit to South Africa, where he is, among other things, attending the World Bank High-Level Advisory Council on Jobs and the Group of Thirty Spring...

Gungubele to address the 2026 Future of Work and Business Conference

Communications and Digital Technologies Deputy Minister Mondli Gungubele will this week deliver a keynote address at the 1st Annual Future of Work and Business Conference taking place at Freedom Park in Pretoria on Wednesday.

The conference — organised by Enterprise Capital in association with the Tshwane...

[Independent (Kampala)] Mbale, Uganda — High in the rolling hills of Mbale District, Kilulu B Village is witnessing a quiet but powerful revolution, one powered not by politics or pipelines but by sunlight. At the centre of this transformation are Local Council I Chairperson Simon Malenje and his partner Grace Kayegi, who manages Good Journey Nursery and Primary School.

[This Day] The nationwide protest organised by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) over the Ogbomoso school abductions is a welcome development. And for many reasons. For one, newspapers are giving the abductions more front-page treatment.

[Parliament of South Africa] The Chairperson of the Select committee on Education, Sciences and the Creative Industries, Mr Makhi Feni, has called on district circuit managers in Gqeberha to make proper assessments of schooling conditions before children are allowed into classrooms.

[Daily News] Dar es Salaam — Education is often described as the foundation of opportunity, yet for thousands of children, the ability to benefit fully from education depends on something that happens long before academic performance is measured in the classroom.

Most supply-chain attacks using Ruby’s package hosting site “exploit a narrow window,” according to a new blog post form Ruby core maintainer Hiroshi Shibata. So its packaging-managing Bundler tool now offers a filter that blocks new version until it’s been public “for at least N days. Releases too new to have been scrutinized are passed over in favor of ones that have aged past the window.”The...

His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated little interest in managing his sprawling department as he focuses on food and vaccine policies, according to colleagues.

After Jesse Ridgway, a popular YouTuber, and his wife, Ashley, revealed the news, death threats followed.