The Auditor-General reveals that significant delays in infrastructure projects are hindering South Africa’s service delivery, with an average wait time now 41 months, affecting President Ramaphosa’s ambitious reform agenda.
Suffering from heart failure, his lower eyelids discoloured and swollen, apartheid’s killing machine, Eugene de Kock (77), this week appeared at the inquest into the murder of the Cradock Four.
In her first interview since the disappearance, Savannah Guthrie recounts the moment she learned her mother was missing and wrestles with the idea that her fame may have made her mother a target.
US President Donald Trump denied being “desperate” to make a deal with Iran on Thursday, as he mixed threats with diplomacy in a push to wrap up his war in the Middle East.
Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was back in a New York court on Thursday for his second appearance since his capture by US forces in an extraordinary nighttime raid.
Fecofoot president Jean-Guy Mayolas remains on the run after being sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this month for embezzling $1.1m in Fifa funds.
The mastermind behind one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in South Africa’s history has managed to retain his membership at one of the country’s top private schools.
British teenager Carys Lloyd holds off former world champion Elisa Balsamo to claim her first ever professional victory in a sprint finish at the Tour of Brugge.
[Daily Maverick] For months, parents of students at Dukathole LSEN School have voiced serious concerns over a deteriorating learning environment, and now two official government reports have validated their protests and concerns.
The Justice Department’s demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego, represent a flex of federal power.
[This Day] Senior and junior secondary school students across the country have been invited to enter the 2026 Bishop Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition. Entries opened on March 16 and will close on June 30, 2026.
BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla just teamed up with Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, to push open source AI — and it feels like a direct response to Big Tech tightening its grip on the space. Instead of relying on closed models, the goal here is to build “sovereign AI” that’s more transparent, privacy-focused, and actually under the control of developers and even governments....
Wikipedia has banned the use of generative AI to write or rewrite articles, saying it “often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies.” That said, editors may still use it for translation or light refinements as long as a human carefully checks the copy for accuracy. Engadget reports: Editors can use large language models (LLMs) to refine their own writing, but only if the copy is...
The Trump administration had options for offloading contraceptives once destined for Africa, a newly obtained memo shows. Instead, it has let them collect dust and go bad.
The administration has yet to find a candidate who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda while avoiding his unpopular stance on vaccines.