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Gareth Mnisi’s unexplained life of bling

Today at 19:53 PM, via SowetanLIVE

Gareth Mnisi’s name recently came up at the Madlanga commission with allegations that he was giving tenders to his preferred companies with the commission alluding that he was getting kickbacks.

Education

Weekend students at 15 universities in England told to return loans and grants

Today at 17:49 PM, via The Guardian

Student Finance England tells about 22,000 students their universities wrongly told them they were eligible

More than 20,000 university students in England who received government maintenance loans and grants worth thousands of pounds have been told they will have to pay them back because their universities wrongly told them they were eligible for the money.

About 22,000 students studying for...

Lifestyle

Grim future predicted for emperor penguins

Today at 15:35 PM, via The South African

The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction.

Science/Tech

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

Today at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself

On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees...

Science/Tech

EFF Is Leaving X

Today at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. “This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue,” the digital rights group said. “The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.” From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million...