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African filmmakers are experimenting with AI as Hollywood debates its risks

When 17-year-old Zara Sodangi earns admission to Nigeria’s most prestigious fictional tech academy, Makemation, her world suddenly shifts from survival in a poor Lagos...

SIU recoups millions looted through Gauteng education Covid-19 tenders

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has completed several settlement agreements with service providers and individuals linked to the R431-million in decontamination, disinfection, and sanitisation...

India-Africa Forum Summit-IV postponed due to ‘health situation in Africa’

The much-awaited fourth edition of the India-Africa Forum Summit was postponed on account of the evolving health situation following consultations with the African Union...

Mozambican man who raped and murdered a mentally-challenged child handed two...

A Mozambican man who lured a mentally-fragile 11-year-old child with the promise of sweets before raping and strangling her in Gauteng has been handed...

Young pharmacist among dead in triple murder at KZN pharmacy

KwaZulu-Natal police are searching for suspects after three people—including a young pharmacist, a security guard and another woman—were shot dead in a brazen attack...

Ex-Mpumalanga lawyer to appear in court for ‘stealing’ R2m from grieving...

A former Mpumalanga legal practitioner accused of allegedly feasting on the finances of grieving and vulnerable clients is expected to appear before the White...

Concern as 10 people perish in horrific head-on collision in Mpumalanga

Ten people were killed when a minibus taxi and a bus collided head-on on the R39 Road between Standerton and Morgenzon in Mpumalanga on...

Gauteng finance MEC Nkululeko Dunga graduates with public management degree

EFF Gauteng chairperson and newly appointed Gauteng Finance MEC Nkululeko Dunga has added another milestone to his political journey after graduating with a bachelor's...

DR Congo races to contain Ebola as death toll rises

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is racing to contain its latest Ebola outbreak, after it was declared on May 15 in the...

Ghana, Rwanda, and Zambia nurture dream of a single African digital...

Ghana, Rwanda, and Zambia are testing a unified digital trade corridor that allows cross-border payments to move instantly across African financial systems. The shift...