# 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 […]
# The ANC study group in International Relations and Cooperation believes president Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, will yield positive outcomes that will benefit all South Africans. The two leaders are set to meet at the White House today. The study group says the visit represents a critical opportunity to strengthen […]
# Die EFF veroordeel berigte dat die regering regulatoriese sekerheid wil bied aan Elon Musk se Starlink, en sê dis ongrondwetlik. Die regering beplan volgens berigte om wette oor plaaslike swart eienaarskap te omseil sodat die Starlink-internetdiens in Suid-Afrika bedryf kan word. Die party sê hulle is nie teen tegnologie of globale vernuwing nie, maar […]
# US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the Trump administration’s decision to give refugee status to white Afrikaners. President Donald Trump has falsely asserted that white farmers in South Africa are undergoing genocide and deserve special status. This is despite him suspending the US’s refugee resettlement programme in January. Appearing before the Senate Foreign […]
# Die miljardêr Elon Musk het Suid-Afrika se wette oor swart ekonomiese bemagtiging gekritiseer. Hy sê die Starlink-internetdiens word nie in die land toegelaat nie omdat hy wit is. Om in Suid-Afrika gebruik te word, moet Starlink netwerk- en dienslisensies kry, wat albei 30-persent eienaarskap deur voorheen benadeelde groepe vereis. Die regering wil volgens berigte […]
# Renowned businessman Johann Rupert says golfer Ernie Els was the person who, over the past month, talked US president Donald Trump into agreeing to a meeting with president Cyril Ramaphosa. Rupert and Els will reportedly join Ramaphosa’s delegation when he meets Trump in the White House today. News24 reports that in an interview, Rupert […]
# Die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, en die minister van Landbou, John Steenhuisen het met die Amerikaanse handelsverteenwoordiger-ambassadeur Jamieson Lee Greer, in Washington vergader. Amerika is Suid-Afrika se tweede grootste handelsvennoot ná China. Steenhuisen sê die vergadering het gefokus op die versekering van oop en wedersyds voordelige toegang vir landbouprodukte wat […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê hy sien uit na ‘n baie goeie en positiewe ontmoeting vandag met die Amerikaanse president Donald Trump. Hy het gister die Suid-Afrikaanse ambassade in Washington besoek, waar hy ‘n strategiese inligtingsessie deur sy ministers bygewoon het. Die regering het die langverwagte gesprekke as ‘n geleentheid bestempel om verhoudings te herstel. […]
# The EFF has condemned reports that the government is set to offer regulatory assurances to Elon Musk’s Starlink, saying this move is unconstitutional. The government is reportedly planning to offer Musk a workaround of local black ownership laws for his Starlink internet service to operate in South Africa. The EFF says they are not […]
