As government funding falls short of meeting the needs of thousands of postgraduate students, many are turning to entrepreneurship to survive, balancing businesses with demanding academic workloads just to pay for food, accommodation and tuition.
Fifa boss Gianni Infantino is a man of many ideas. His latest and most controversial yet is the proposal to invite external investors to claim a stake in the global soccer federation, with a company linked to US President Donald Trump leading the process.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
After the men’s success at the World Cup, Cape Verde should not be underestimated on their Women’s Africa Cup of Nations debut, forward Sandra Martins warns.
[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.
[Nyasa Times] Maranatha Academy’s education scholarship initiative remains central to the institution’s mission of supporting academically gifted but financially disadvantaged students across Malawi, according to the school’s managing director, Dr Ernest Kaonga.
South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.
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...
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....
The Kentucky Republican has accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of funding research that triggered the Covid pandemic and lying about it to Congress — charges Dr. Fauci denies.