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WEDNESDAY, 29 JULY 2026, 22:53

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PHALA PHALA ANALYSIS: How Ramaphosa’s impeachment process could take two years — or more

Today at 22:18 PM, via Daily Maverick

In a narrow 14 to 13 vote, Parliament’s impeachment committee on Wednesday decided to appeal against the interdict that effectively stopped public impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa in connection with the Phala Phala theft of forex stashed in sofa cushions. It’s a preview of what lies ahead – if public proceedings should ever happen.

South Africa

Huawei and Four SA IT Partners Launch Joint Industry Solution at Sandton Connect 2026, Positioning South Africa as African Pilot Market

Today at 19:20 PM, via iAfrica

Huawei has launched a Partner Joint Industry Solution with four of South Africa’s largest IT services companies — CoCre8 Technology Solutions, Gijima, Altron and BCX — at Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 in Sandton, formalising a partner-ecosystem play the Chinese ICT vendor plans to extend as its template for African expansion. Huawei said its local […]

South Africa

Vodacom’s AI Lab, UJ Centre for Applied Data Science and AWS Team Up to Build South African AI Talent Pipeline From Short Courses to PhD

Today at 19:17 PM, via iAfrica

Vodacom’s AI Lab, the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Applied Data Science (CADS) and Amazon Web Services have launched a joint programme designed to build a South African AI talent pipeline that runs from short-term courses through to PhD-level research — with students working on live Vodacom projects rather than academic simulations. The collaboration co-develops […]

Education

Ghana: Strictly Enforce Discipline in Schools – GES

Today at 21:47 PM, via AllAfrica

[Ghanaian Times] A Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Smile Gavua Dzisi, has called on school heads in the country to strictly enforce all the necessary disciplinary measures to stem the increasing spate of indiscipline among students.

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 29 July 2026

Today at 21:07 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned

Today at 22:02 PM, via The Guardian

Six years on from Covid crisis, Republicans still politicizing science – and Fauci remains a political punching bag

A US Senate committee hearing featuring Dr Anthony Fauci revealed at least one certainty: six years after the pandemic, politicizing science remains a vital political tactic.

The high-profile hearing was pitched by its Republican chair, Rand Paul of Kentucky, as an investigation...

Science/Tech

NextEra, Brookfield to Build $100 Billion Kentucky Data Campus

Today at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

NextEra and Brookfield plan to invest more than $100 billion to transform a former uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky into a data center campus with a generating plant. “The privately funded effort will include construction of 2 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power at or near the site in Paducah in western Kentucky, and as much as 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage capacity,” reports Bloomberg....