It’s been over a year since the Basic Education Laws Amendment (Bela) Act was signed into law, making Grade R compulsory for five-year-olds in SA from 2025. However, as a new school year gets under way, questions about the implementation of the legislation remain, from how it’s being funded to who it affects.
A forensic investigation has found that the National Lotteries Commission should recover hundreds of thousands of rand from ProEthics, a company it paid to advise on ethics, after uncovering irregular fees, over-invoicing and missing receipts. ProEthics and its director Dr Janette Minnaar tried to stop GroundUp publishing this article.
Springbok assistant coach Tony Brown has distanced himself from speculation that he will join the All Blacks’ staff, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
The French government is not currently in favour of boycotting this summer’s World Cup over US President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, according to the country’s sports minister.
[Daily Trust] Workers on Monday shut the gates of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), and several other agencies as they began an indefinite strike over unresolved welfare issues.
[This Day] Yenagoa — The Department of Building, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Niger Delta University (NDU), in Bayelsa, at weekend inducted its pioneer set into the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB).
[Daily News] Dar es Salaam — THE Deputy Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations), Rahma Riyadh Kisuo, has donated school supplies to 1,000 children with special needs at Uhuru Mchanganyiko Primary School and Mnyamani Primary School in Ilala District, Dar es Salaam.
The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware use. From a report: The Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill is being framed as a replacement for the current legislation that governs digital communication interception. The Department of Justice, Home Affairs, and...
Google has temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced SRV3 caption format after discovering the feature was causing playback errors for some users, according to a statement the company posted. SRV3, also known as YouTube Timed Text, is a custom subtitle system Google introduced around 2018 that allows creators to use custom colors, transparency, animations, and precise text positioning. Creators...
New submitter BeaverCleaver shares a report: Japan has restarted operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster forced the country to shut all of its reactors. The decision to restart reactor number 6 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa north-west of Tokyo was taken despite local residents’ safety concerns. It was delayed by a day because of an...