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Christoff Becker, one of four Pretoria teenagers convicted of the murder of a homeless man in a crime which outraged the nation, is back in the news.

South Africa celebrates its top matric achievers of 2025

As the Matric Class of 2025 celebrates a historic national pass rate of 88% – the highest in the country’s history – the spotlight has fallen on learners whose individual journeys reflect resilience, discipline and unwavering faith. 

From the Western Cape to Limpopo and Mpumalanga, South Africa’s top achievers have shown...

Government pleased with 2025 Matric Results

Government has congratulated the matric Class of 2025 on achieving an exceptional National Senior Certificate (NSC) pass rate of 88%, marking the highest pass rate in the country.  

This as Basic Education Minister, Siviwe Gwarube, announced the 2025 Matric Results on Monday night.

In releasing the results, the Minister said KwaZulu-Natal...

Congrats Class of 2025!

Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, has extended his heartfelt congratulations to the matric Class of 2025 following the release of the National Senior Certificate results.

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has this evening announced that the matric class achieved a historic 88% National Senior Certificate (NSC) pass rate – the highest in South...

At least 648 protesters have been killed in the crackdown by Iranian security forces on a protest movement that has shaken the Islamic republic, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said on Monday, warning the actual toll could be far higher.

The US ‍State Department said on Monday it has revoked more than 100 000 visas since President Donald Trump took office last year, ‌setting what it said was a new record as his administration pursues its hardline immigration policy.

Uganda’s opposition leader told AFP on Monday that he would call for protests if President Yoweri Museveni rigs this week’s election and said he would welcome an intervention by the United States.

Disgraced former Eskom CEO and corruption-accused Brian Molefe is the new treasurer-general of the MK Party, the party announced in a statement on Monday afternoon.

The executive council of the American Historical Association said the resolutions, including one accusing Israel of ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza, would put the group at risk.

[Afropop] New York — We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Africa-America Institute’s State of Education 2026 Conference – ”Following The Gold Road–Global Medieval Africa in the Time of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.”

Kent D. Syverud will become the fifth person to run Michigan since the start of 2022, inheriting a school that has also been marked by debates about diversity.

22 years ago, developer and columnist John Gruber released Markdown, a simple plain-text formatting system designed to spare writers the headache of memorizing arcane HTML tags. As technologist Anil Dash writes in a long piece, Markdown has since embedded itself into nearly every corner of modern computing. Aaron Swartz, then seventeen years old, served as the beta tester before its quiet March...

Microsoft has abruptly retired the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a free platform that IT administrators have relied on to deploy Windows operating systems and applications for more than two decades. The retirement, reports the Register, came with “immediate” notice, meaning no more fixes, support, security patches, or updates, and the download packages may be removed from official distribution...

The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.

Norway has released its December and full year 2025 automotive sales numbers and the world’s leading EV haven has broken records once again. The country had previously targeted an end to fossil car sales in 2025, and it basically got there. From a report: In 2017, Norway set a formal non-binding target to end fossil car sales in the country by 2025 — a target earlier than any other country in...

After receiving a diagnosis of terminal cancer, he used his experience in public relations to draw attention to the skyrocketing cost of medication.

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

A study of more than 5,000 pages of agency documents on mifepristone over 12 years found that agency leaders almost always followed the evidence-based recommendations of scientists.