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Mbalula calls for police probe of Joburg ANC’s electoral outcomes

Today at 10:31 AM, via SowetanLIVE

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula wants the police to investigate the outcomes of the party’s Johannesburg regional conference at which his ally, Dada Morero, lost the region’s top leadership position to Loyiso Masuku.

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2025 was the third-warmest year on record

Today at 10:30 AM, via Newsday

2025 was the third-warmest year on record, continuing a multi-decade trend of rising temperatures driven by human activity.

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School ‘bewitched’ to fail

Today at 10:28 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Naledi-Ya-Meso secondary school in Limpopo experienced a complete failure rate in its 2025 matric class due to a combination of factors, including poor management, lack of parental involvement, ill-discipline, and the belief in witchcraft.

South Africa

Inclusion, citizen ownership, governance and healing to guide National Dialogue

Today at 10:04 AM, via SAnews

Inclusion, citizen ownership, governance and healing to guide National Dialogue

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the newly inducted National Dialogue Steering Committee to ensure that the “significant initiative” remains a citizen-led process that is inclusive and well organised.

The President delivered remarks during the inaugural meeting of the 99-member community at Unisa in...

South Africa

Reforms bear fruit as World Bank projects SA economic growth

Today at 09:28 AM, via SAnews

Reforms bear fruit as World Bank projects SA economic growth

A new World Bank report projecting economic growth for South Africa over the next two years is an indication that government’s reform agenda is bearing fruit.

This after the international development organisation reported that South Africa’s economy is expected to grow by some 1.4% in 2026 – increasing to 1.7% in...

Science/Tech

Digitap ($TAP) Price Prediction 2026: The Path to $5 and Flipping $2 XRP

Today at 09:00 AM, via Tech Financials

Price predictions in crypto often sound exciting, but most fail because they rely on noise instead of fundamentals. Tokens spike on hype and fade when attention moves on. Real growth comes from something slower but stronger: usage. Projects that become part of everyday financial behavior are the ones that survive cycles and compound value over […]

Science/Tech

Astronomers aim to take ‘revolutionary’ moving image of black hole

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude

Dark, hungry and inescapable: black holes are often portrayed as the ultimate cosmic villains.

But now astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a supermassive black hole in action for the first time, in observations that could help reveal another side to these elusive – and...

Science/Tech

53% of Crypto Tokens Launched Since 2021 Have Failed, Most in 2025

Today at 07:59 AM, via Slashdot

=[“More than half of all cryptocurrencies ever launched are now defunct,” reports CoinDesk, citing a new analysis by cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko. And most of those failures occurred in 2025:The study looked at token listings on GeckoTerminal between mid-2021 and the end of 2025. Of the nearly 20.2 million tokens that entered the market during that period, 53.2% are no longer...

Health

For Men, How Much Alcohol Is Too Much?

Friday at 12:01 PM, via New York Times

Federal officials working on the new dietary guidelines had considered limiting men to one drink daily. The final advice was only that everyone should drink less.