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WEIGHTY MATTER: Ozempic, Wegovy and the R33bn bill that is SA’s obesity time bomb

Today at 20:56 PM, via Daily Maverick

Obesity is a big driver of healthcare spending in South Africa, yet most medical schemes still limit cover for effective treatments. The gap between the scale of the problem and the funding response is widening, with long-term consequences for patients, insurers and the public purse.

World

How the Bondi Beach shooting unfolded

Today at 21:15 PM, via BBC News

Eleven minutes of video capture the moment Bondi beach turns into a scene of horror.Eleven minutes of video capture the moment Bondi beach turns into a scene of horror. BBC Verify has analysed dozens of videos from the attack.

Sport

How Messi’s GOAT tour of India hit trouble

Today at 20:42 PM, via BBC News

From crowd violence on day one to meeting cricket royalty and kickabouts with kids – what happened on Lionel Messi’s GOAT Tour of India.

Education

Exam board Pearson fined £2m for ‘serious’ breaches in standards

Today at 19:48 PM, via The Guardian

Ofqual issues fines over English proficiency test which some candidates sat at home, A-level Chinese and GCSE English

One of the world’s biggest providers of educational services has been fined more than £2m for a range of serious breaches related to examination standards that could have affected tens of thousands of students.

Pearson, a FTSE 100 listed company, was hit by financial penalties...

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 15 December 2025

Today at 21:52 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

Verizon Refused To Unlock Man’s iPhone, So He Sued the Carrier and Won

Today at 22:05 PM, via Slashdot

A Kansas man who sued Verizon in small claims court after the carrier refused to unlock his iPhone has won his case, scoring a small but meaningful victory against a company that retroactively applied a policy change to deny his unlock request. Patrick Roach bought a discounted iPhone 16e from Verizon’s Straight Talk brand in February 2025, intending to pay for one month of service before...

Science/Tech

Why Floods Threaten One of the Driest Places in the World

Today at 21:24 PM, via Slashdot

One of the most water-scarce regions on Earth is now experiencing a dramatic atmospheric shift that’s pushing moisture onto Oman’s northern coast at rates more than 1.5 times the global average, according to a Washington Post investigation of global atmospheric data [non-paywalled source]. The change has turned extreme rainfall into a recurrent source of catastrophe across the Arabian...

Science/Tech

Cloudflare Reveals How Bots and Governments Reshaped the Internet in 2025

Today at 20:45 PM, via Slashdot

Cloudflare’s sixth annual Year in Review report describes an internet increasingly shaped by two forces: automated traffic and government intervention, as global connectivity grew 19% year over year in 2025. Google’s web crawler now dominates automated traffic, dwarfing other AI and indexing bots to become the single largest source of bot activity on the web. Nearly half of all major internet...