The latest Drop Report confirms a troubling reality: South Africa’s water and wastewater systems are continuing to deteriorate. Compared with previous assessments, the decline in drinking water quality compliance and wastewater treatment performance is no longer marginal, it is systemic. This sustained regression points to structural failure rather than technical surprise. Yet public debate...
The lawsuits, filed in California, accuse OpenAI and Sam Altman of negligence and abetting a mass shooting by failing to flag the suspect’s ChatGPT activity.
Medical negligence claims against the state ballooned to about R62 billion by March 2024. This represented more than 20% of the public health budget, threatening the capacity of provincial health departments to provide proper care, write Marecia Damons and David Capel.
The trial of Bellarmine Mugabe, son of late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, and his cousin Tobias Matonhodze has concluded with Mugabe’s immediate deportation and a R600,000 fine. Matonhodze, who pleaded guilty to the more serious charges, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
The sacred script banning the I word has been trashed and the Me Generation, the I Specialists and the Lived Experience Battalion all have got hold of headlines to a laughable and astoundingly dull degree.