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SCORPIO: Inside Collen Mashawana’s ‘political connections’

Today at 22:14 PM, via Daily Maverick

Collen Mashawana, the ‘philanthropreneur’ at the heart of Daily Maverick’s investigative series on the Independent Development Trust, frequently mingled with top politicians. Were these innocent encounters, or do the optics betray hints of something more ominous?

South Africa

Alphabet CEO Warns AI Bubble Could Hit Every Company

Today at 16:44 PM, via iAfrica

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says no company, including Google, would be immune if the artificial intelligence market were to suffer a valuation correction. In an exclusive interview with BBC News at Google’s California headquarters, Pichai said the rapid surge in AI investment is “an extraordinary moment,” but he acknowledged “irrationality” in parts of the market. […]

Education

Tanzania: Zanzibar Records 97pc Pass Rate in PSL Exams

Today at 16:34 PM, via AllAfrica

[Daily News] Zanzibar — A TOTAL of 50,769 candidates, equivalent to 96.94 per cent have passed the 2025 Standard Seven National Examinations, the Zanzibar Ministry of Education and Vocational Training has announced.

Education

Interviewing future medical students gave me that rare thing: hope for the NHS | Devi Sridhar

Today at 15:58 PM, via The Guardian

They face long hours, mediocre pay and, at worst, no job, but their optimism is astonishing – let’s support them better

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

When I mentioned to colleagues in the NHS that I was helping with admissions interviews for medical students, several responded with the same wry smile and weary shrug: “Do they know what...

Science/Tech

Matric exam breach in South Africa

Today at 21:59 PM, via MyBroadband

The Department of Basic Education has revealed that an examination breach was detected during the marking process for the 2025 National Senior Certificate exams.

Science/Tech

MAPU Introduces the World’s 1st “Platform Utility Ratio” Redefining How Crypto Value Is Measured

Today at 21:08 PM, via Tech Financials

FAYETTEVILLE, NC (PinionNewswire) — MAPU, the native utility token powering the MatchAwards.com AI economic-development platform, today announced the launch of the industry’s first Platform Utility Ratio (P/U Ratio) a transparent, data-driven metric grounded in real activity generated across the MatchAwards ecosystem. This marks a major milestone for Web3: a digital asset whose value...