# US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming the term artificial intelligence to “Super Intelligence”, to be used in official communications by his administration. He met with top technology executives, including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Meta and Google, at the White House yesterday. There have been calls for tighter oversight of […]
# UK prime minister Andy Burnham says his agenda will break the mould of the last 40 years and put Britain on a new path. In his first Labour Party conference speech as prime minister, he vowed to pave the way for greater public control over housing, water and energy services. Burnham promised to reform the […]
# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis says president Cyril Ramaphosa has been announcing emergency responses to gender-based violence and femicide since 2019, but nothing has changed. In an address to the nation last night, the president announced four measures aimed at strengthening government’s response to gender-based violence and femicide. These include an audit of cases involving […]
# Soccer: The English Premier League says Manchester City arranged “sham” contracts with a number of its commercial partners, as part of a disguised funding scheme to grossly inflate the club’s revenues by around 18-billion-rand. An independent commission found City guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between the 2009-2010 […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has demarched US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell for a third time in nine months. He has been called to explain what the department describes as “undiplomatic conduct”. This comes after he penned an op-ed, criticising president Cyril Ramaphosa and his government for ignoring president Donald Trump administration’s […]
# Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi warned the Film and Publications Board to sharpen its oversight and strengthen the fight against online harms. This comes as South Africa confronts rapid technological change. Earlier this month, the board’s Enforcement Committee announced it had clamped down hard on non-compliance, issuing fines totalling 16.1-million-rand. Malatsi […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has directed the minister of Police, the National Commissioner of Police and relevant forensic authorities to submit, within 60 days, a funded plan to reduce forensic backlogs in gender-based violence and femicide cases. The president announced a series of measures and directives yesterday evening, following a series of killings of women […]
# The EFF has welcomed the decision of the Makhanda High Court in the Eastern Cape to grant Julius Malema leave to appeal his conviction in the firearm matter. He was found guilty of contravening the Firearms Control Act last year, and handed an effective five years in direct imprisonment in April. In 2018, Malema […]
# The World Health Organisation says health workers fighting the country’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak are struggling to overcome critical challenges to patient care. With eight-thousand-and-67 confirmed cases and three-thousand-901 deaths, the case fatality rate is more than 48-percent in 63 affected health zones in seven out of DRC’s 26 provinces. World Health Organisation doctor Janet […]
