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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years
The crypto exchange co-founder was convicted last year of stealing $8bn from investors.
THURSDAY, 28 MARCH 2024, 21:30
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The crypto exchange co-founder was convicted last year of stealing $8bn from investors.
Top Stories
Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram are addictive and have ‘rewired’ the way children learn, educators say.
Top Stories
Gugulethu Yako, the suspended NLC legal manager, failed in an urgent court bid to stop disciplinary proceedings against her.
Top Stories
Unleaded petrol (95) will be increased by 67c a litre.
South Africa
EThekwini municipality is ready to welcome visitors for Easter holidays.
South Africa
The report highlighted SAPS’ significant challenges with infrastructure development, the maintenance of police facilities, and leasing.
South Africa
45 people killed when bus plunges off bridge and bursts into flames in Limpopo
South Africa
Gauteng MEC suspends two Soweto taxi associations’permits due to deadly violence
World
Debt-plagued Thames Water revealed Thursday that it failed to raise a major cash injection from shareholders, blaming industry regulations that made its rescue plan “uninvestable”.
World
A UN report says criminals are recruiting and abusing young people as violence soars
World
MPs vote in favour of a bill that will penalise workplace discrimination based on hair.
World
Additional traffic camera footage captured the moments just before the collapse of the Baltimore bridge.
Africa
In the first three months of this year, about 190 schools have been closed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province.
Africa
Joseph Boakai tells the BBC he is trying to change the mindset of those who think government is a way to get rich.
Africa
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio delivered the annual lecture in African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in the US, this week.
Africa
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, speaks to the BBC.
Business
A post-Brexit deal has expired with no new agreement, which leaving UK exports to Canada subject to new tariffs.
Business
Tinus de Jager – Moneyweb.
Business
Prof Jannie Rossouw, politieke ekonoom en besoekende professor aan Wits Sakeskool gesels oor sy agterond, loopbaan, die industrie waarin hy is, en wat hy doen om te ontspan.
Business
Pierre le Roux, eienaar van Sengi Cocoa gesels oor die prys van kakao.
Politics
The decision was taken following the public candidate list inspection process.
Politics
The speaker’s attempts to stall her arrest resulted in the state revealing the damning charges she faces
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Politics
Sivuyile Ngodwana removed as mayor of the City of Ekurhuleni during a vote of no confidence.
Politics
The MK Party on Thursday said it would immediately appeal the IEC’s decision to remove Jacob Zuma from its parliamentary list
Sport
Rassie van der Dussen may be on Cricket SA’s contracting system for the next year, but the fact he’s on a white-ball only contract having not played red-ball cricket since 2022 makes his Test future rather unclear.
Sport
There may be some doubt in Ireland about whether former Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber’s defence methods have caught on – but the one thing Bulls coach Jake White knows is he can’t have made them worse.
Sport
England men’s captain Jamie George joined the women’s team in a training session to help their hookers.
Sport
World, European and Commonwealth Games champion Amy Broadhurst is seeking to switch allegiance from Ireland to Great Britain in a bid to qualify for the Paris Games.
Education
The parents were worried about crime, but the university said that the move raised concerns about training and experience, and that security was better left to its own police force.
Education
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA — Japan needs to expand and deepen its diplomatic and economic relations with Ethiopia through education and people-to-people ties, the country’s ambassador said.
Education
The national debate about so-called woke campuses does not reflect what most college students care about.
Education
Union claims up to a quarter of all academic roles at financially pressed London institution face the axe
Plans for mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, have been called a “horrifying act of cultural and social vandalism” and the “biggest assault on jobs at any UK university in recent years”.
The job cuts, which are now subject to a consultation, are the latest in a series of...
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Gagasi FM says presenter Penny Ntuli was still contracted to them when she disclosure how much they were offering to pay her.
Lifestyle
Bad timing? Springbok Cheslin Kolbe’s meeting with Roc Nation Sports founder Jay Z had fans talking about rapper Diddy instead.
Lifestyle
Revered radio host, media personality, philanthropist, and businessman DJ Sbu will finally be back on South African airwaves.
Entertainment
Artists, music lovers, media colleagues and honoured guests got together for the unveiling of the Metro FM Music Awards 2024 nominees on Wednesday evening in Bryanston, Johannesburg.
Entertainment
Winners of each category will receive R50 000. The Song of the Year winner will walk away with R150 000.
Entertainment
Ahead of the Easter Weekend, Spotify released figures that reveal that young people are big consumers of faith music.
Entertainment
Former Gagasi FM on-air personality Penny Ntuli revealed that she was offered a salary of a measly R2,800 by the station.
Science/Tech
From Curb Your Enthusiasm to The Regime, here’s everything you need to be watching on Max this month.
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader shares a report: New York City announced a new permitting system for companies interested in testing autonomous vehicles on its roads, including a requirement that a human safety driver sit behind the steering wheel at all times. As cities like San Francisco continue to grapple with the problems posed by fully driverless for-hire vehicles, New York City is trying to get...
Science/Tech
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for ComputerWorld: Essentially, all software is built using open source. By Synopsys’ count, 96% of all codebases contain open-source software. Lately, though, there’s been a very disturbing trend. A company will make its program using open source, make millions from it, and then — and only then — switch licenses, leaving their contributors, customers, and...
Science/Tech
Anthropic’s recently released Claude 3 Opus large language model has beaten OpenAI’s GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers to gauge the relative capabilities of AI language models. A report adds: “The king is dead,” tweeted software developer Nick Dobos in a post comparing GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3 Opus that has been making the...
Motoring
Motoring
There were several international and local factors that contributed to the increases in petrol and diesel prices
Motoring
Toyota Hilux, Fortuner and Starlet the Japanese carmaker’s top three used models.
Motoring
Health
Women with premenstrual disorders are much more likely to have birth-related depression, researchers say.
Health
Cases of trisomy 18 may rise as many states restrict abortion. But some women choose to have the babies, love them tenderly and care for them devotedly.
Health
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the government must provide shelter, food and medical care to minors while they await processing.
Health
The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
Nature
Plans to end lion breeding began more than a decade ago as the practice of releasing tame big cats into small enclosures and having them shot by hunters for a fee spawned the term ‘canned hunting’ and attracted international condemnation.
Nature
South Africa may import significant amounts of white maize, used to make a staple food, for the first time since 2017 as the El Niño weather pattern withers the crop
Nature
Nestle SA plans to spend R2.5 billion ($132 million) over the next five years to improve growth and development of emerging local businesses across East and Southern Africa.
Nature
South African farmers are expected to harvest 19.3% less maize in the 2023/2024 season compared with the previous one, the government’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on Tuesday.