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President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for urgent action in response to the recent murders of women in Ekurhuleni. Another woman’s body was found on Tuesday morning in KwaThema, Springs, with some similarities to five other murder victims on the East Rand.
Lesotho Public Works Minister Matjato Moteane is a shareholder in a local firm the government plans to invite to participate in a $6.2-billion agreement with US-based Convalt Energy to build a hydropower plant and AI data centre.
XenoBarometer tracks the anti-immigrant movement and its impact. We aim to surface underreported stories, paying close attention to potential rights abuses, emerging patterns in anti-immigrant mobilisation and failures in the government’s response.
The Springboks have beaten the All Blacks in a landmark series and anything they win between now and the start of the 2027 World Cup should be viewed as a bonus.
A former Google DeepMind employee on Monday became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could "kill all humans", saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome.
Hungary's government submitted a bill to parliament late on Monday that would remove anti-LGBTQ+ rules prohibiting the "promotion of homosexuality" to under-18s implemented by Viktor Orban's former nationalist government.
Belarusian state institutions have worked together to repress critics of President Alexander Lukashenko's government through every stage of the justice system since 2020, including arrests, imprisonment and surveillance, U.N. experts said on Tuesday.
Coalition talks may be needed to choose the first elected chief minister of the Muslim-dominated autonomous region in the southern Philippines, with unofficial results suggesting no single bloc is on course to dominate the new 80-member parliament.
Record wins, surprising sweeps, and long-overdue firsts defined the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles, offering a clearer picture of where television is heading next.
A dark comedy about male despair, addiction, loneliness and the possibility of spiritual awakening in a seemingly godless world is showing at The Baxter in Cape Town until 26 September.
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How much more careful must we become? How many more routes must we abandon, streets avoid and public spaces surrender before we admit that the problem is not that women are insufficiently cautious?
While the hunting season winds down, get into the kitchen (or shuffle over to the braai) with these recipes from Annatjie Reynolds and Lynne Minnaar’s new book, Karoo Venison.
At the European Film Festival South Africa, three films trace how fatherhood bends under social and political collapse, exploring absent fathers, surrogate kinship and fragile belonging across nations.
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and conservative podcaster Steve Bannon will together on Tuesday call for restrictions on AI systems, uniting two political adversaries around concerns that the technology will harm humans.
