# OpenA-I strategy chief Jason Kwon has acknowledged they mishandled the response to an incident involving an Australian government health website. An OpenA-I agent hacked into the national healthcare database in June, gaining unauthorised access to the Medicare statistics database in the first known case of artificial intelligence hacking a government network. Kwon told a parliamentary […]
# Die Motorbedryf-personeelvereniging vra die regering om dringend die tydelike verlaging in die brandstofheffing weer in te stel te midde van skerp stygings in brandstofpryse. Die petrolprys styg om middernag met tot drie-rand-33-sent per liter, dieselpryse met tussen twee-rand-84- en drie-rand-24-sent en lampoliepryse met vier-rand-77-sent. Woordvoerder Phakamile Hlubi-Majola sê die jongste verhogings plaas huishoudings verder […]
# Golf: LIV Golf has secured a 4.98-billion-rand financing commitment from BC Partners Credit to help the breakaway league ahead of the 2027 season. LIV filed for bankruptcy protection in the US last month in an attempt to restructure after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund withdrew its financial backing. BC Partners Credit says the investment will help LIV emerge from […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die presidensiële Een-miljard-bome-veldtog kan klein- en grootskaalse ekonomiese bedrywighede bevorder en werk skep. Die veldtog is deel van die bestaande Nasionale Vergroeningsprogram wat oor die volgende vyf jaar ʼn miljard bome wil plant. Ramaphosa sê in sy weeklikse nuusbrief die hantering en oorkoming van ongelykhede vereis dat die Vergroeningsprogram ook […]
# Union federation COSATU and its affiliates will mark World Day for Decent Work tomorrow, with nationwide marches and pickets to highlight the plight of workers. Spokesperson Zanele Sabela says workers are under siege from rampant retrenchments, non-compliance with the National Minimum Wage, increasing casualisation of jobs, and escalating attacks on collective bargaining rights. She […]
# The Motor Industry Staff Association is calling on government to urgently reinstate a temporary fuel levy reduction as fuel prices are set to soar tomorrow. Petrol prices will go up by up to three-rand-33-cents per litre, diesel prices by between two-rand-84-cents and three-rand-24-cents a litre, and illuminating paraffin prices by four-rand-77-cents. MISA spokesperson Phakamile […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Presidential One Billion Trees Campaign has the potential to catalyse both small- and large-scale economic activity and job creation. The campaign, which is part of the existing National Greening Programme, aims to plant one billion trees over the next five years. In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa says addressing and overcoming the […]
# Die landbou-organisasie, TLU SA, sê die jongste brandstofprysverhogings sal die landbousektor onder geweldige druk plaas. Petrolpryse styg van môre af met tussen drie-rand-12-sent en drie-rand-33-sent per liter; dieselpryse met tussen twee-rand-84-sent en drie-rand-24-sent per liter, en die prys van paraffien met vier-rand-77-sent per liter. Bennie van Zyl van TLU SA sê die hoër brandstofkoste […]
# Die vakverbond COSATU sê die komende massiewe stygings in brandstofpryse, van gemiddeld drie-rand vir petrol, diesel en paraffien, is nog ʼn terugslag wat die werkersklas en die ekonomie eenvoudig nie kan bekostig nie. Hy vra die Parlement om die Tweede Spesiale Toewysingswetsontwerp te bekragtig wat tien-miljard-rand aan die Sentrale Energiefonds se Gelykmakingsfonds beskikbaar sal […]