# Johannesburg has overtaken Cape Town as South Africa’s top start-up hub. According to StartupBlink’s 2025 Global Start-up Ecosystem Index, Johannesburg climbed 17 spots globally to rank 122nd, with a growth rate of over 42-percent, while Cape Town fell to 138th place with 13-percent growth. South Africa remains 52nd globally and leads Africa’s start-up scene. […]
# Today is International Tea Day, recognised by the United Nations in 2019 to honour the cultural, economic, and social significance of tea worldwide. Tea is one of the world’s oldest beverages and is the most consumed drink in the world, after water. It is estimated that three-billion cups of tea are consumed globally per […]
# Die Universiteit van Pretoria het ‘n eredoktorsgraad in Opvoedkunde toegeken aan Suid-Afrika se mees gevierde en veelbekroonde redaksionele spotprenttekenaar, Jonathan Shapiro, beter bekend as Zapiro. Die universiteit sê sy spotprente hou die afgelope vier dekades ‘n boeiende, insiggewende spieël op van gebeure in Suid-Afrika. Shapiro sê dis vir hom uiters aangenaam om te sien […]
# The University of Pretoria has conferred an honorary doctorate in Education on South Africa’s most celebrated and multi-award-winning editorial cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. The university says over the past four decades, Shapiro’s cartoons have held up a compelling, insightful mirror to events taking place in South Africa. Shapiro says it’s pleasing for […]
# ‘n Amerikaanse musiekvakbond is woedend oor president Donald Trump se aanlyn tirades teen Taylor Swift en Bruce Springsteen. Trump kritiseer Swift al sedert sy Kamala Harris ondersteun het tydens die presidentsverkiesing. Springsteen het Trump se administrasie gekritiseer op ‘n onlangse konsert in Manchester, Engeland, waarop Trump gesê Springsteen is so dom soos ‘n klip. […]
# US president Donald Trump’s online rants targeting Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen has infuriated a local union for musicians. Trump has a long history of directing barbed comments at Swift following her endorsement of Kamala Harris during the presidential campaign. During a recent concert in Manchester, England, Springsteen slammed Trump’s administration, with Trump then […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse opvoeder Nadine Smith het die 2025 EDGE in Tech Athena-toekenning vir vroeë loopbaanleierskap gewen. Smith is tydens ‘n spesiale seremonie by die Universiteit van Kalifornië, Berkeley, vereer vir haar baanbrekerswerk in die transformasie van wetenskap-, tegnologie-, ingenieurswese- en wiskunde-onderwys om meer inklusief en toeganklik te wees. As ‘n koderings- en robotika-opvoeder by […]
# South African educator Nadine Smith has won the 2025 EDGE in Tech Athena Award for Early Career Leadership. Honoured at a special ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley, Smith was recognised for her groundbreaking work in transforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education, to be more inclusive and accessible. A Coding and Robotics […]
Sokker: Die Europese Unie-kommissaris Jozef Sikela en die CAF-president Patrice Motsepe het ‘n ooreenkoms van miljoene euro gesluit om die CAF Afrika-skolesokkerkampioenskap te verbeter. Die inisiatief is gemik op die ontwikkeling van jeugsokker regoor Afrika, met die Motsepe-stigting wat 179- miljoen-rand in prysgeld bydra. Motsepe sê die vennootskap is bedoel om infrastruktuur te verbeter en […]
