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Climate change could affect timekeeping, study says
Melting ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, affecting how time is calculated, a new study says.
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Melting ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, affecting how time is calculated, a new study says.
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The Foreign Office warns football fans that “stronger” German beer could get them barred from stadiums.
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At least since Margaret Thatcher, gotcha questions about the cost of living have been staples in the UK, Australia, and the US. Here is what others did in that situation.
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Draft report seen by BBC confirms Post Office knew of IT vulnerabilities before Bates v Post Office case.
South Africa
45 people killed when bus plunges off bridge and bursts into flames in Limpopo
South Africa
Gauteng MEC suspends two Soweto taxi associations’permits due to deadly violence
South Africa
Transport authorities carry out integrated operations on various national roads over Easter weekend
South Africa
Two arrested by Zeerust for possession coper cables worth R650 000 in North West.
World
MPs vote in favour of a bill that will penalise workplace discrimination based on hair.
World
Additional traffic camera footage captured the moments just before the collapse of the Baltimore bridge.
World
Dozens of people are still unaccounted for, with relatives attempting to track down their loved ones.
World
When a Democrat ousted Republicans from a district in deeply conservative Alabama this week, she won hearts and minds with a pitch about repealing the state’s no-exceptions abortion ban and protecting reproductive rights.
Africa
In the first three months of this year, about 190 schools have been closed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province.
Africa
Joseph Boakai tells the BBC he is trying to change the mindset of those who think government is a way to get rich.
Africa
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio delivered the annual lecture in African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in the US, this week.
Africa
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, speaks to the BBC.
Business
Gauteng’s freeway network will become non-toll routes from 11 April 2024.
Business
Eskom’s price increases for its direct customers will come into effect over the easter weekend.
Business
Euromoney has crowned the winners of its Private Banking Awards for 2024, with two banks scopping up 70% of the local awards.
Business
El Niño could see food inflation increase in the coming months, despite the current slowdown.
Politics
The speaker’s attempts to stall her arrest resulted in the state revealing the damning charges she faces
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Politics
Sivuyile Ngodwana removed as mayor of the City of Ekurhuleni during a vote of no confidence.
Politics
The MK Party on Thursday said it would immediately appeal the IEC’s decision to remove Jacob Zuma from its parliamentary list
Politics
DA challenges Mashatile on Mapisa-Nqakula no confidence motion brought by the DA
Sport
Ardie Savea has admitted that he is still not completely over the All Blacks’ agonising one-point loss to the Springboks in the Rugby World Cup final.
Sport
West Ham United midfielder Katrina Gorry is out for the rest of the season with an ankle injury.
Sport
Proteas captain Laura Wolvaardt was delighted that she could keep her cool as she went about smashing a stunning maiden T20 century in Wednesday’s opener against Sri Lanka at Willowmoore Park.
Sport
Nuno Espirito Santo tells his Nottingham Forest players to “forget about” the club’s points deduction and focus on their battle to avoid relegation.
Education
The parents were worried about crime, but the university said that the move raised concerns about training and experience, and that security was better left to its own police force.
Education
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA — Japan needs to expand and deepen its diplomatic and economic relations with Ethiopia through education and people-to-people ties, the country’s ambassador said.
Education
The national debate about so-called woke campuses does not reflect what most college students care about.
Education
Union claims up to a quarter of all academic roles at financially pressed London institution face the axe
Plans for mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, have been called a “horrifying act of cultural and social vandalism” and the “biggest assault on jobs at any UK university in recent years”.
The job cuts, which are now subject to a consultation, are the latest in a series of...
Lifestyle
Watch this viral pet video that will leave you in “awes” and “lols”. Buckle up, you are not ready for this cuteness overload!
Lifestyle
Staunch Kaizer Chiefs supporter and BOSA president Mmusi Maimane has impressed many with his football skills.
Lifestyle
New EFF member Carl Niehaus clapped back at a troll who criticised his wife over their age difference and interracial marriage.
Lifestyle
Discover daily furry fun facts. Whether adorable or kind of gross, our pets never cease to amaze us. Join us in exploring their world!
Entertainment
Winners of each category will receive R50 000. The Song of the Year winner will walk away with R150 000.
Entertainment
Ahead of the Easter Weekend, Spotify released figures that reveal that young people are big consumers of faith music.
Entertainment
Former Gagasi FM on-air personality Penny Ntuli revealed that she was offered a salary of a measly R2,800 by the station.
Entertainment
Someone, unbeknown to the MK Party, created an impression that singer Lira was endorsing the MK and was a member.
Science/Tech
Anthropic’s recently released Claude 3 Opus large language model has beaten OpenAI’s GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers to gauge the relative capabilities of AI language models. A report adds: “The king is dead,” tweeted software developer Nick Dobos in a post comparing GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3 Opus that has been making the...
Science/Tech
A government gazette from Sanral has revealed the shutdown date for Gauteng’s much-abhorred e-toll scheme.
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader shares a report: According to the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, ‘consonance’ — a pleasant-sounding combination of notes — is produced by special relationships between simple numbers such as 3 and 4. More recently, scholars have tried to find psychological explanations, but these ‘integer ratios’ are still credited with making a chord sound beautiful, and deviation...
Science/Tech
Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8-billion.
Motoring
Motoring
There were several international and local factors that contributed to the increases in petrol and diesel prices
Motoring
Toyota Hilux, Fortuner and Starlet the Japanese carmaker’s top three used models.
Motoring
Health
Cases of trisomy 18 may rise as many states restrict abortion. But some women choose to have the babies, love them tenderly and care for them devotedly.
Health
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the government must provide shelter, food and medical care to minors while they await processing.
Health
The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
Health
The gamer, Tyler Blevins, said a mole removed from his foot during a recent checkup with a dermatologist was found to be a melanoma.
Nature
Plans to end lion breeding began more than a decade ago as the practice of releasing tame big cats into small enclosures and having them shot by hunters for a fee spawned the term ‘canned hunting’ and attracted international condemnation.
Nature
South Africa may import significant amounts of white maize, used to make a staple food, for the first time since 2017 as the El Niño weather pattern withers the crop
Nature
Nestle SA plans to spend R2.5 billion ($132 million) over the next five years to improve growth and development of emerging local businesses across East and Southern Africa.
Nature
South African farmers are expected to harvest 19.3% less maize in the 2023/2024 season compared with the previous one, the government’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on Tuesday.