# Die Thabo Mbeki-stigting het ‘n verslag gepubliseer wat die verhoudings tussen Suid-Afrika en die Verenigde State ondersoek, met die fokus op die toekoms van Afrikaners en rasse-regstelling. Die artikel van 123 bladsye bespreek die VSA se steun vir Afrikaner-organisasies wat groter kulturele en politieke outonomie soek, en die potensiële impak op Suid-Afrika se post-apartheid-skikking. […]
# Die Britse polisie sê al vyf mans wat in hegtenis geneem is vir ‘n vermeende terreurkomplot naby die Koninklike Lugmagbasis Fairford, is Britse burgers in hulle twintigerjare en van Londen. Die mans is gister gearresteer na drie verdagte voertuie op pad na die Gloucestershire-lugbasis opgemerk is. Die Amerikaanse weermag gebruik die basis. Hulle is […]
# The Thabo Mbeki Foundation has published a monograph examining relations between South Africa and the United States, focusing on the future of Afrikaners and racial redress. The 123-page paper discusses US support for Afrikaner organisations seeking greater cultural and political autonomy, and the potential impact on South Africa’s post-apartheid settlement. It also compares South […]
# SpaceX has launched its giant Starship rocket on its first attempt to reach orbit around Earth. The uncrewed vehicle lifted off from the company’s Starbase facility in Texas on its 14th test flight. The nearly ten-hour mission aims to send Starship around Earth about six times before a planned splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. […]
# British police say all five men arrested over a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford are British nationals in their twenties from London. The men were detained yesterday after three suspicious vehicles were reported travelling towards the Gloucestershire airbase, which is used by the United States military. They were initially arrested over alleged explosives […]
# University of Cape Town Emerita professor Sue Harrison has been elected an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, recognising her contribution to engineering research, innovation and capacity development. Harrison, now Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Queensland in Australia, spent 30 years at UCT, where she built a […]
# Twee reuse-pandas het by die Atlanta-dieretuin in Georgia, Amerika, aangekom as deel van ‘n nuwe bewarings- en navorsingsooreenkoms met China. Hulle is in die Chengdu-navorsingsbasis gebore. Die dieretuin het voorheen 25-jaar lank reuse-pandas gehuisves voordat sy ooreenkoms met China in 2024 verstryk het. Sewe welpies is tydens daardie vennootskap in Atlanta gebore voordat hulle […]
# Microsoft se mede-stigter, Bill Gates, sê dit kan moeiliker wees om lande te laat ooreenkom oor wêreldwye reëls vir kunsmatige intelligensie as wat dit tydens die Koue Oorlog was om oor kernwapens te onderhandel. Hy sê kerntegnologie word hoofsaaklik deur regerings beheer, maar kunsmatige intelligensie word deur privaat maatskappye én regerings ontwikkel. Gates sê […]
# Suid-Afrika het geskiedenis gemaak deur ‘n silwermedalje in vliegtuig-onderhoud te verower op die Wêreldvaardigheids-kompetisie in Sjanghai, China. Nege-en-twintig studente het die land in 27 vaardigheidsvelde verteenwoordig en meegeding teen ongeveer een-uisend-400 jong beroepslui uit meer as 90 lande. Die kompetisie bevorder uitnemendheid in tegniese en beroepsonderwys en -opleiding. Span Suid-Afrika, bygestaan deur senior amptenare, […]
