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The new AI Empowered summit in August aims to make artificial intelligence accessible and accountable to ordinary professionals, educators, creatives and citizens – using AI to think bigger, move faster and lead faster.

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We shouldn’t have to dehorn rhinos to keep them safe. The ideal is to let rhinos live as they should — horns and all. That’s the message from a Nelson Mandela University scientist who led a landmark seven-year study showing that while dehorning can significantly reduce poaching, it’s not a ...

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Author and activist Latifah Jacobs creates platforms for those who have experienced violence and abuse to speak out, in the form of books compiled from the letters and poems of survivors.

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Councillors have accused Nelson Mandela Bay’s acting city manager of dodging questions about the municipality's spending of flood disaster grants.

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The key to fixing South Africa’s troubled municipalities is to appoint officials who are capable and know their job, says Cogta Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa, as public comment for the overhaul of local government gets into full swing.

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Nelson Mandela Bay Metro will brand its copper cables to curb out-of-control theft, said electricity and energy MMC Ziyanda Mnqokoyi on Thursday.

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Air pollution cost South Africa more than R960bn and 42,000 lives in 2023, a new report finds, but the government keeps extending emissions exemptions.

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After 78 years of manufacturing tyres in Kariega, Nelson Mandela Bay, the Goodyear factory will close. Restructuring that includes the closure of the company’s manufacturing arm in South Africa will take place – Section 189A retrenchment notices have been served.

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Vincent Magwenya also confirmed that the President would attend the G7 Summit in Canada this month.

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President Ramaphosa expects that members of the executive ‘conduct themselves professionally, transparently and cordially in engaging with Parliament and other accountability structures’, says the Presidency.

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Over and above winning both their final friendly matches before the start of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, Banyana Banyana also welcomed back some stalwarts, as well as testing some promising youngsters.

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Both Chris Hani and Steve Biko echoed Frantz Fanon’s warning that unless the fight against oppression is a fundamental one, decolonisation will just mean ‘the transfer into native hands of those unfair advantages which are the legacy of the colonial period’. Part 2 in a two-part series.

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The Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a Bellville school’s decision to change its name from DF Malan High School to DF Akademie to distance itself from its apartheid past, despite objections from some parents.

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Despite promises and paperwork, numerous Gauteng non-profit organisations are still waiting for vital funding from the provincial Department of Social Development, three months into the financial year. Homes for abused children, youth care centres, and disability support organisations say they’re...

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The Mail & Guardian has become the latest victim of the declining South African and global media industry — but insiders say the seeds of its demise were sown some time ago.

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The OECD’s latest Economic Survey, backed by Treasury, leading economists, the RMB/BER Business Confidence Index and the recently released Kearney Global Economic Outlook, warns that failure to implement urgent structural reforms risks tipping South Africa into an entrenched economic stall.

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An estimated 11 million tonnes of plastics leak into aquatic ecosystems each year, while around 13 million tonnes of plastics accumulate in the soil annually.

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Many of us like to try to understand a person we are talking to, a person we have just met. We want to know more about them. We often want to place them in our context. There is a useful phrase to describe all of this. It’s often referred to as ‘class’.

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The plan is up against dysfunction within social development departments and fraught relations with NGOs that deliver most services.

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Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

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Sage is a pleasing companion for butternut, and the roasting of the butternut first adds a lovely underlayer of caramelisation to the flavour of the risotto.

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The First Thing newsletter's Ever-lasting Subscriber Photo Gallery.

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Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap and its City Bowl are home to the oldest mosques in the country and, well, rampant Islamophobia. Notions of exceptionalism (and indeed of exclusivity) are precisely what is driving the city of Cape Town towards an AirBnB paradise and luxurious residences for whites under the ...

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WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's aides scheduled a call between the U.S. president and Elon Musk for Friday after a huge public spat that saw threats fly over government contracts and ended with the world's richest man suggesting Trump should be impeached.

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The amount of retirement capital that you need depends on how much you will require to live on every month.

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South Africa’s batsmen look like no match for their Australian counterparts on paper, but a deeper look reveals it’s closer than it initially appears.

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The worker-to-output gap can be narrowed. But only if we first build systems that close the skills-to-opportunity gap. Let’s train for the jobs we want, make the skills that pay and move from potential to performance.

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LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) - Popular vape brands like Geek Bar may get more expensive in the U.S. - if you can find them at all.

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Lucinda Evans, feminist activist and founder of the Cape Town non-profit organisation Philisa Abafazi Bethu, is in the business of defending and empowering survivors of abuse. Her dream is a world in which children, women, men and members of the LGBTQIA+ community can live in peace and safety.

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When Teresa Mordoh’s son, Julio, died by suicide after allegedly being sexually assaulted by a teacher at St John’s College, her world was shattered. But in the depths of grief, Mordoh found a new purpose: to ensure that no other child or family would suffer in silence. She founded an organisatio...

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Daily Maverick recently published a book review of traveller and author Treive Nicholas’s book, In Search of Nongqawuse. Historian and author JJ Klaas offers an alternative version of this story told in his book, Triangle of One Hundred Years Wars.

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The advent of the internet has put predators into children’s pockets, and many use a classic child sexual abuse playbook. With ease of access to children online, anonymity, the speed and intensity at which online relationships progress, secrecy, careful grooming and vicious, prolonged attacks on ...

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The Health Funders Association is the sixth organisation to launch a legal challenge to the NHI Act, describing it as ‘unaffordable, unworkable and unconstitutional’.

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After months of being in the headlines for negative reasons, the Comrades Marathon will shine for what it is all about — testing human endurance. Gerda Steyn and Piet Wiersma are out to defend the titles they won in 2024.

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As of June 2025, South Africa has activated mandatory regulations that affect a R3-billion industry and will result in annual energy savings of 840 gigawatt hours — enough to power a city the size of Polokwane or approximately 140,000 households for a year.

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In the cold winter sunshine, colours burst, flavours are accentuated, and the world seems a better place because the Karoo is in it.

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The United Rugby Championship semi-finals featuring the Bulls versus the Sharks, and Leinster against Glasgow, all take place this weekend.

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Snow is expected across most provinces, with icy temperatures, strong winds and heavy rain forecast this coming weekend, until the middle of next week.

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We follow the harrowing story of Aliou Candé — a 28-year-old farmer and father from Guinea-Bissau — whose dream of a better life ended in one of Libya’s brutal migrant prisons.

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LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) - Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber planes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, according to Western military aviation experts, straining a modernisation programme that is already delayed.

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There have been calls for NPA boss Shamila Batohi to resign following the entity’s ongoing failure to prosecute State Capture cases. Batohi claims there are no fundamental problems in the NPA.

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A year ago, my editor Tony Jackman asked me to write a regular column, the K@k Cook, about my kitchen experiments that often ended in disaster. Today, after many successes in the kitchen, I’m proud to shed that name and embrace my roots as The Kasi Cook.

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For one magical afternoon, the streets of Hillbrow in Johannesburg were filled with otherworldly creations as a musical parade moved through in black and white. The event, coordinated by Shade Brixton director Tamzyn Botha and theatre-maker Daniel Buckland in collaboration with the Windybrow Arts...

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Fish finished in the oven with a gratin of onions and cheese is a splendid thing, and one of my prized memories of the home food of my youth.

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The Springbok pecking order may well be shaped by performances in the United Rugby Championship and English Premiership playoffs over the next two weeks.

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Maverick Life: Even small diet tweaks can lead to sustainable weight loss – here’s how

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The Trump administration has imposed unprecedented sanctions on four ICC judges in response to the arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu.

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Getting a grip on these multiple threats to animal health and welfare and the agricultural economy is vital and the Department of Agriculture is clearly signalling that it is taking a proactive approach.

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