# Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation minister, Maropene Ramokgopa, has called for global collaboration to improve public services and fund development. Speaking at the G20 Development Working Group Ministerial Meeting in Mpumalanga, she stressed solidarity, financial justice, and people-centred growth. Ramokgopa warned that only 52.4-percent of the global population has social protection and highlighted Africa’s 1.5-trillion-rand […]
# Doctors Without Borders charity says that a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week were malnourished. The medical aid group, known by its French acronym MSF, said that Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, […]
# Britain’s Science and Technology minister, Peter Kyle, says his country supports the eventual recognition of a Palestinian state, but the immediate priority should be alleviating the suffering in Gaza and securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. He told Sky News the UK wants Palestinian statehood, and the right circumstances for a long-term political […]
# Dit is vandag die Internasionale Dag vir Vroue en Meisies van Afrika-afkoms, wat hulle bydrae, prestasie en uitdagings erken. Die Verenigde Nasies sê die vroue en meisies van Afrika-herkoms verpersoonlik krag, veerkragtigheid, en onbenutte potensiaal. Pamela Coke-Hamilton van die VN sê die bemagtiging van die vroue en meisies vereis ‘n omvattende benadering gegrond in menseregte, […]
# Delegations have arrived at Iran’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, this morning for face-to-face talks between Iran and the so-called E3 group of France, Britain and Germany. Reuters reports senior diplomats from the E3 group are set to hold talks with Iran’s negotiating team for the first time since US and Israeli strikes on Iranian […]
# ʼn Doktorale-student aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch het ʼn grensverskuiwende kunsmatige-intelligensietoepassing ontwikkel vir Suid-Afrika se werkloosheidskrisis. Thabo Maibi het die Career Agent ontwikkel. Dis ʼn selfoontoepassing wat webtuistes met werksgeleenthede met gebruikers se CV’s vergelyk en namens hulle aansoek doen. Career Agent gebruik tans ʼn lys werksportale in Suid-Afrika, Botswana en Eswatini, en enkele oorsese […]
# Today is International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent, recognising the contributions, achievements, and challenges faced by women and girls of African descent globally. The United Nations says the woman and girl child of African descent embodies strength, resilience, and untapped potential. The UN’s Pamela Coke-Hamilton says empowering women and girls of African […]
# A Stellenbosch University PhD student has developed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence app that could help address South Africa’s unemployment crisis. Thabo Maibi has created the Career Agent, a mobile app that scans job websites, matches openings with a user’s CV and applies on their behalf. Currently, Career Agent draws from a curated list of […]
# Die sekretaris-generaal van die Verenigde Nasies, António Guterres, het sy kommer uitgespreek oor die gewapende konflik tussen Thailand en Kambodja. Ten minste 15 mense is dood en meer as 100-duisend burgerlikes is ontheem terwyl die twee lande vir ‘n tweede dag koppe stamp oor ‘n gebied bekend as die Smarag-driehoek, waar die grense van […]
