News South Africa

The Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture has failed to explain why it’s prioritising events such as Formula One and the Olympics over vital cultural festivals, jeopardising opportunities for emerging artists and literary voices.

South Africa faces a literacy crisis, with 81% of Grade 4 learners unable to read meaningfully. Emphasising reading for pleasure is essential for fostering motivation and effective literacy development.

InnoPower Africa has announced a strategic partnership with Luma Learn aimed at expanding access to artificial intelligence education and digital skills development across Africa, with a focus on removing barriers including cost, location and limited exposure to advanced training. The collaboration will leverage Luma Learn’s learning platform and InnoPower Africa’s community networks to...

PowerLabs, a Nigeria-based energy and climate technology startup, has raised a pre-seed funding round led by Breega, with participation from Catalyst Fund, Mercy Corps Ventures and Kaleo Ventures, to accelerate the deployment of its AI-powered energy management platform across Nigeria’s commercial and industrial sectors. Founded in 2023 by Tobechukwu Arize, who serves as CEO, and […]

A South Africa-founded startup is challenging the AI industry’s energy-intensive growth model, securing $5 million in seed funding to develop tools that compress and restructure AI models so they can run on smaller devices using significantly less power. The round was led by California-based climate technology investor VoLo Earth Ventures. Refiant AI was founded in […]

A 31-year-old entrepreneur from Richards Bay is carving out a niche in South Africa’s growing agricultural technology sector through a drone company focused on sustainable farming, forestry and environmental conservation — a business she launched after seeing a WhatsApp advertisement for a training course. Bongiwe Nyawo founded Nyawo Zendalo Air in May 2024 after qualifying […]

[This Day] As the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof Hakeem Fawehinmi, presided over his maiden congregation meeting, where he shared his vision for the institution, Raheem Akingbolu, who has been following the activities of the professor of Clinical Anatomy and Biomedical Anthropology since he took the mantle of leadership, reckons that he appears to be getting it right despite...

[This Day] Nigeria’s higher education system is undergoing a far-reaching digital transformation through the nationwide deployment of the Blackboard Learning Management System across public tertiary institutions.

[This Day] Ado Ekiti — A Professor of Sociology of Religion at Ekiti State University, Ibiyinka Adesanya, has called for a sweeping re-evaluation of long-standing religious and cultural perceptions that place women in subordinate roles, urging a more balanced and informed theological approach.

[This Day] Ado Ekiti — The remarkable growth and rising academic profile of Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti (BOUESTI) will take centre stage as the institution graduates 1,645 students at its second convocation ceremony, with 60 of them earning first class.

The EU says a new age-verification app is technically ready and could let users prove they are old enough to access restricted online content without revealing their identity or personal data. Deutsche Welle reports: Once released, users will be able to download the app from an app store and set it up using proof of identity, such as a passport or national ID card. They can then use it to...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from UploadVR: A group of independent researchers built a device that can artificially induce smell using ultrasound, with no consumable cartridges required. […] The team of four are Lev Chizhov, Albert Yan-Huang, Thomas Ribeiro, Aayush Gupta. Chizhov is a neurotech entrepreneur with a background in math and physics, Yan-Huang is a researcher at Caltech with...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to defend staff and funding cuts at the Health and Human Services Department he oversees.

The review said a certain class of drugs had little clinical benefit, but many Alzheimer’s experts criticized the analysis, saying it unfairly lumped failed drugs with two recently approved treatments.