| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.06.2025 | The Future of AI in Academia and Quantum Computing: A Dual Perspective | In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, two fields stand out: artificial intelligence (AI) in academia and advancements in quantum computing. Both are reshaping their respective domains, yet they share a common thread: the quest fo... |
| 26.06.2025 | Africa: Can Academics Use AI to Write Journal Papers? What the Guidelines Say | Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to "intelligent machines and algorithms that can reason and adapt based on sets of rules and environments which mimic human intelligence". This field is evolving rapidly and the education sector... |
| 14.05.2025 | Africa: Light Is the Science of the Future - the Africans Using It to Solve Local Challenges | Light is all around us, essential for one of our primary senses (sight) as well as life on Earth itself. It underpins many technologies that affect our daily lives, including energy harvesting with solar cells, light-emitting-diode (LED) di... |
| 10.05.2025 | Navigating the Digital Frontier: The Need for Transparency in Image Manipulation | In a world where images reign supreme, the truth often gets lost in the pixels. The rise of photo manipulation tools and generative artificial intelligence has blurred the lines between reality and fabrication. This is not just a technologi... |
| 08.05.2025 | Africa: How to Tell If a Photo's Fake? You Probably Can't. That's Why New Rules Are Needed | The problem is simple: it's hard to know whether a photo's real or not anymore. Photo manipulation tools are so good, so common and easy to use, that a picture's truthfulness is no longer guaranteed.
The situation got trickier with the upta... |
| 08.05.2025 | Four councillors appointed to South African communications regulator | Communications minister Solly Malatsi has welcomed the adoption by the national assembly of the appointment of four new councillors at sector regulator Icasa.
Malatsi said in a statement on Wednesday that the four candidates were selected b... |
| 30.04.2025 | Jan Reynders, a ‘towering’ figure in SA engineering, has died | Prof Jan Reynders
Prof Jan Reynders, president of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineering (SAIEE), passed away on 16 April 2025 at the age of 84.
Reynders was the former dean of engineering and head of the school of electrical... |
| 19.02.2025 | Malatsi selects new Icasa councillors – here’s who made the cut | Communications minister Solly Malatsi has nominated four candidates for appointment to the decision-making council of communications regulator Icasa.
In December, Malatsi was sent a list of six shortlisted names to choose from after MPs had... |
| 12.02.2025 | 'Ridiculous and lame': South Africans mock Trump proposals | JOHANNESBURG: On the streets of Johannesburg's student district, US President Donald Trump's offer to accept white Afrikaners as refugees landed as both "ridiculous" and "lame", among South Africans of all races.
On Frid... |
| 05.02.2025 | Bridging the Gap: Africa's Tech Renaissance Through Mentorship and Innovation Funds | Africa stands at a crossroads. The continent is ripe with potential, yet it grapples with challenges that stifle its technological growth. Recent initiatives like Qualcomm's 'Make in Africa' Startup Mentorship Program and the University Tec... |
| 04.02.2025 | South Africa: University Technology Fund II Launches With $21m Target for Innovation | TLDR
Stocks & Strauss Fund Manager has launched University Technology Fund II (UTF II) with a $21.4 million target
The fund will invest in 15 to 20 companies, focusing on scalable university-originated technologies
Anchor investors incl... |
| 31.01.2025 | $21.4 M to be invested in university-originated innovations through SA’s University Technology Fund II | According to Stocks & Strauss Fund Manager, the University Technology Fund II (UTF II) reached a significant milestone in December 2024 when all agreements were finalized and a sizable portion of the funds were committed. This was a maj... |
| 23.01.2025 | The Hidden Dangers of Personal Devices in the Workplace | In today’s digital age, the line between personal and professional is often blurred. Picture this: a bustling coffee shop filled with people, each engrossed in their laptops and smartphones. How many of those devices belong to their employe... |
| 22.01.2025 | Using your own laptop or phone for work? It’s a security hazard | Next time you’re working in a coffee shop, take a moment to look around at your “co-workers” for the day, busy, like you are, with laptops, cellphones and tablets. How many of those devices belong to the organisations that employ them? Or a... |
| 21.01.2025 | Africa: Using Your Own Laptop or Phone for Work? Why It's a Security Hazard for Businesses | Next time you're working in a coffee shop or similar public space, take a moment to look around at your "co-workers" for the day, busy, like you are, with laptops, cellphones and tablets. How many of those devices belong to the or... |
| 18.01.2025 | South Africa: A New Dawn or Just Another Mirage? | South Africa stands at a crossroads. The economy, long plagued by stagnation, is showing signs of life. Analysts predict a growth rate of 1.7% for 2025, a modest rise from the 0.7% expected in 2024. This shift is like a flickering candle in... |
| 17.01.2025 | Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus | Previous
FILE PHOTO: Meat products are pictured in an EDEKA supermarket in Berlin, Germany, August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa, that... |
| 14.01.2025 | Stronger South African economic growth on the horizon | South Africa’s economy is set to forge an upward path this year after misfiring for more than a decade, boosted by steps to address growth constraints and higher consumer spending, according to top-ranked analysts.
Economists surveyed by Bl... |
| 14.11.2024 | Inside the new R90-million Digital Dome at Wits | Johannesburg’s 64-year-old Planetarium, in the Wits University campus in Parktown, has had a major technological upgrade.
Sporting a new name – the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome – the facility has been completely reimagined using high-re... |
| 14.11.2024 | South Africa: A New Era for Stargazing and Science in Joburg As Wits Reimagines Iconic Planetarium | The iconic Johannesburg Planetarium has been transformed into the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome, marking a new chapter for science, humanities and education in South Africa. The R90m Digital Dome, funded by Anglo American and Wits Univer... |
| 31.10.2024 | South Africa's Energy Renaissance: A New Dawn for Eskom and the Economy | South Africa stands at a crossroads. For years, the nation has battled crippling power outages, a situation that turned daily life into a game of chance. Businesses shuttered, homes grew dark, and the economy stumbled. But now, a flicker of... |
| 28.10.2024 | How Eskom went from zero to unlikely hero | Aslina Wines, an independent winemaker located among the rolling vineyards of Stellenbosch, counts a large generator among its most valuable inventory. It relied on the machine to stay up and running during the worst of South Africa’s power... |
| 17.10.2024 | Astronomers trace the origin of meteorites that have struck Earth | Previous
FILE PHOTO: A researcher holds a fragment of meteorite during a press conference where researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, Nelson Mandela University and Rhodes University explain the entry of a meteorite into Eart... |
| 30.09.2024 | Minister Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi leads South African delegation at International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV), 1 to 4 Oct | The South Africa’s Department of Public Service and Administration, the Centre for Public Service Innovation, and the Wits School of Governance (Wits University, in partnership with the United Nations University, will host the 17th edition ... |
| 06.09.2024 | A Top 'Engineer' Faked His Degrees and Only Had a High-School Education. He Got Away With It For Years. During his 15-year tenure at the rail agency, he oversaw a deal worth over $100 million to purch... |
This article was originally published on Business Insider.
The chief engineer of South Africa's state-run passenger rail agency falsely claimed to have a master's degree and a doctorate in engineering, earning him a handsome salary of abou... |
| 04.09.2024 | A Celestial Visitor: The Nqweba Meteorite and Its Significance | In the vast theater of the cosmos, a fireball streaked across the South African sky, capturing the attention of scientists and stargazers alike. This celestial event, which occurred on August 25, 2024, was not just a fleeting spectacle; it ... |
| 03.09.2024 | South African scientists unveil fragment of motorcycle-sized meteorite | Previous
A researcher handles a fragment of meteorite during a press conference where researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, Nelson Mandela University and Rhodes University explain the entry of a meteorite into Earth's atmosp... |
| 03.09.2024 | Eastern Cape meteorite likely a rare achondrite | The main mass of the Nqweba meteorite showing the black fusion crust and brecciated interior (light grey) with broken mineral and rock fragments. The main sample weighs less than 63g and is less than 4cm in diameter. Image: Wits University
... |
| 03.09.2024 | The African Centre for the Study of the United States, Wits University, Hosts the Inaugural Africa-US Smart Cities Lab | The African Centre for the Study of the United States, Wits University, hosts the inaugural Africa-US Smart Cities Lab at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) hosted the Africa-US Smart Cities Lab on 14 August 2024 in partnership with... |
| 30.08.2024 | Commentary: How does extreme heat hurt your health? Here are all the ways | LONDON: When it comes to measuring the impacts of the climate crisis, we tend to fall upon two simple metrics: Human fatalities and economic losses.
These data points are extremely useful for understanding what we would be exposing ourselve... |
| 30.08.2024 | Meta faces fight over South African election probe | Anton Harber. Image: Wits Journalism
South Africa’s Information Regulator is investigating social media giant Meta Platforms – the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram – following the US company’s refusal to abide a Promotion of Access... |
| 26.08.2024 | Suspected Eastern Cape meteorite has scientists enthralled | Illustration created in Dall-E
Residents of St Francis Bay in the Eastern Cape woke up to a series of flashing blue lights as a falling meteorite arched its way across the sky on Sunday morning.
The flashes were accompanied by a series of l... |
| 15.08.2024 | Air pollution in South Africa: IoT devices use AI to monitor hotspots | Air quality has become one of the most important public health issues in Africa. Poor air quality kills more people globally every year than HIV, TB and malaria combined. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Air pollution makes people le... |
| 08.07.2024 | How SA educators are fighting the AI cheating scourge | The introduction of generative artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot is forcing South African schools and universities to rethink the way they assess pupils and students.
Assessment criteria that rel... |
| 04.07.2024 | ‘I’m not a soldier’: Angie Motshekga on minister ‘experience’ [video] | Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Angie Motshekga has responded to criticism of her new post.
Images via X:
@governmentza
Angie Motshekga has left South Africans amused at her response to criticism of her experience in her new role ... |
| 02.07.2024 | Lucara Announces Appointment of Vice President, Mineral Resources | Lucara Announces Appointment of Vice President, Mineral Resources
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 2, 2024 /CNW/ - (LUC – TSX, LUC – BSE, LUC – Nasdaq Stockholm)
Lucara Diamond Corp. (“Lucara” or the “Comp... |
| 26.06.2024 | Live rhino horns injected with radioactive material in project aimed at curbing poaching in South Africa | South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching.
The country is home to a large majority of the world's ... |
| 25.06.2024 | U.S. News Releases 2024-2025 Best Global Universities Rankings | The newest edition evaluates schools from more than 100 countries.
WASHINGTON, June 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in education rankings and consumer advice, today published the 2024-2025 Best Gl... |
| 16.06.2024 | Africa: How to Avoid Being Hacked - Start By Upping Your Password Game - '12345' Doesn't Cut It | If you type the term "password cyberattack" into Google News, the results will show just how often cyber criminals are getting hold of important data belonging to companies and individuals. Weak passwords are a big part of the pro... |
| 23.05.2024 | No jobs and little hope overshadow South Africa vote | South Africa’s unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world. Image: Pixabay
Wearing a yellow garbage collector’s hi-viz vest, political science graduate Tumelo Georgy joined a small protest outside the headquarters of a Johannesburg... |
| 21.05.2024 | TCS Legends | Joan Joffe on building Joffe Associates – and helping launch Vodacom | Joan Joffe. Photo: Tadek Szutowicz/TechCentral
Joan Joffe, the founder of Joffe Associates who would later play a pivotal role in the launch of South Africa’s mobile industry, began her IT career writing machine code on an ICL (then ICT) ma... |
| 06.05.2024 | RAF disbursed R18 billion to foreign claimants over five years, CEO discloses | The CEO reveals that RAF paid foreign claimants R18bn in the past five years. Image: X/@RAF_SA.
In the last half-decade, the Road Accident Fund (RAF) has disbursed R18 billion to individuals from foreign countries who lodged claims.
The cou... |
| 20.04.2024 | The five strongest earthquakes ever recorded in South Africa | Mining activities in South Africa are often the underlying cause of the country’s tremors. Image: Pixabay
On Friday night an earthquake of magnitude 3.3 occurred 28 km east of Viljoenskroon, Fezile Dabi District Municipality in the Free Sta... |
| 18.04.2024 | Africa: Understanding AI Outputs - Study Shows Pro-Western Cultural Bias in the Way AI Decisions Are Explained | Humans are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to inform decisions about our lives. AI is, for instance, helping to make hiring choices and offer medical diagnoses.
If you were affected, you might want an explanation of why an A... |
| 05.04.2024 | The Irish Tech Challenge 2024 is accepting applications from South African startups | Irish Tech Challenge South Africa, an initiative aimed at promoting collaborations between Irish and South African startups, has extended an invitation to South African startups to apply.
Together with implementing partners Wits University’... |
| 31.03.2024 | South Africa: Zimbabwean Migration to South Africa - How Technology Helps Keep Families Together | Political instability and economic decline in Zimbabwe have accelerated migration to South Africa in the last two decades. Because of the overriding socio-economic focus of the migration, people often fail to understand the effects on the m... |
| 28.03.2024 | MTN Group hires Mike Silber in senior regulatory role | Mike Silber
Mike Silber is joining MTN as group executive for regulatory affairs, effective 1 April. The well-known ICT industry veteran and specialist attorney was previously with Liquid Intelligent Technologies, where he was group chief r... |
| 25.03.2024 | Poll finds DA could lose majority vote in Western Cape | DA will lose the majority in the Western Cape. Image: X/Our DA
The Democratic Alliance (DA) could lose it’s majority vote in the Western Cape, where the party was since in power from 2009.
Poll indicates ANC Losing Majority and EFF gaining
... |
| 23.03.2024 | Irish Tech Challenge 2024 invites applications from SA startups | Irish Tech Challenge South Africa, which aims to promote collaborations between Irish and South African startups, has extended an invitation to apply to South African startups.
Together with implementing partners Wits University’s Tshimolog... |
| 20.03.2024 | The internet revolution happening in Olievenhoutbosch | Mathews Mofokeng was streaming Netflix on his smartphone on the back seat of a battered old car in Ext 27 in Olievenhoutbosch – a sprawling township near Centurion in Gauteng – when TechCentral visited him on a sweltering Sunday afternoon e... |
| 19.03.2024 | Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute Initiates Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Tuberculosis Vaccine Candidate | A large Phase 3 trial will evaluate whether the M72/AS01E vaccine candidate can protect adolescents and adults from pulmonary tuberculosis
Clinical trial site at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, is first of up to... |
| 17.03.2024 | Nzimande announces retirement of longest-serving DSI Director, Dr Mjwara | Director-General of the DSI, Dr Phil Mjwara speaking at the STI Legacy Report which took place at the NRF-iThemba Labs. Image: X/@dsigovza
In a recent announcement by Higher Education, Science, and Innovation Minister, Professor Blade Nzima... |
| 13.03.2024 | Is tap water in South Africa still safe to drink? | Johannesburg residents have been hit by extended cuts in water supplies in the past two weeks. This was a new low after months of continuous deterioration. Professor in the School of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies at the... |
| 12.03.2024 | Naledi Chirwa: Pioneering Social Justice in South Africa | Naledi Chirwa. Images via Instagram @naledichirwa
Naledi Chirwa, a vibrant South African politician and activist, emerged as a leading advocate for fairness and equality. She grew up in Polokwane in a politically engaged family, immersing h... |
| 26.02.2024 | ANC still ‘defensive’ about its economic failures, says analyst | The ANC held its manifesto launch at Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday. Image: ANC Facebook
While the ANC made bold promises to supporters during its manifesto launch at Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday, political analysts said the party w... |
| 22.02.2024 | Next three months critical for opposition parties, says analysts | The IEC says it’s reached a milestone of 27 million voters on the voters’ roll. Image: SABC News
The next three months will be a critical time for opposition parties in South Africa following the announcement that the general and provincial... |
| 08.02.2024 | Musk vs Malema: give it a break, Elon | Elon Musk
Late on Wednesday, Elon Musk, reposting an error-riddled post from an account called “End Wokeness”, wrote on his social media platform X: “The likely future leader of South Africa calls for genocide of the 4 million whites who li... |
| 27.11.2023 | Bogus Doctor, Matthew Lani’s METRO FM interview denounced by listeners | METRO FM promoting the interview with bogus doctor Matthew Lani. Photo: METRO FM/ Facebook
Bogus Doctor, Matthew Lani, has become a talk of the nation this evening, Monday, 27 November, after being afforded an interview on the biggest comme... |
| 14.09.2023 | Virgin Galactic Flew Ancient Human Fossils to Space—The World's First | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 14 September 2023, 04:09 am
Virgin Galactic has sparked controversy after transporting the fossils of two ancient humans into space. The fossils of the two extinct hominin species were under the custodianship of t... |
| 15.06.2023 | International panel revises management of concussion in sport for optimal care of athletes | JOHANNESBURG, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA, June 15, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Latest Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport includes:
New and updated age appropriate tools to aid identification and management of condition
New versions of ... |
| 11.06.2023 | Gauteng earthquake: Can we blame it on mining? | Boksburg’s earthquake could have been triggered by mining activity. Image: Pixabay
South Africa isn’t famous for major seismic activity (nor many natural disasters for matter). Yet the country has a suprising history of signifianct tremors ... |
| 08.06.2023 | South Africa, India and Australia shared similar volcanic activity 3.5 billion years ago | South Africa, India and Australia shared similar volcanic activity 3.5 billion years ago. Credit: US Geological Survey.
South Africa, India and Australia shared similar volcanic activity 3.5 billion years ago. Credit: US Geological Survey P... |
| 01.06.2023 | Remembering Barry Dwolatzky, Wits University’s ‘Grand Geek’ | The late Barry Dwolatzky
To some of his former students, Prof Barry Dwolatzky was the “Grand Geek” – a name of which he was very proud. But Barry, who passed away in Johannesburg on 16 May, was much more than a computer geek. He was also a ... |
| 16.05.2023 | Wits tech pioneer Barry Dwolatzky has died | Barry Dwolatzky
Wits University has announced the passing of Barry Dwolatzky, a pioneering figure in the ICT sector. He was 71.
Describing him as “an inventor, a strategist, a humanitarian and a loyal Witsie, Wits said in a statement on Tue... |
| 12.04.2023 | Next up: solar to the shack | Installers prepare a test site as part of the pilot project to deliver affordable energy to informal dwellings
A project spearheaded by the University of Witwatersrand has launched a pilot study in Pretoria to examine the feasibility of the... |
| 13.03.2023 | From waste to clean water: Tiny carbon particles can do the job | water scarcity isn’t a problem for the far-off future: it’s already here.
Image: Pexels/Skitterphoto
Many futuristic novels and films have explored what the world might look like without water. But water scarcity isn’t a problem for the far... |
| 08.03.2023 | Wits suspends five protesting students, including SRC president | Wits confirms suspension of 5 protesting students. Image: Twitter/ Wits
Wits University has confirmed the suspension of five students amid the ongoing protests.
ALSO READ: Former FeesMustFall leader gives WITS VC 1 day to respond to Letter
... |
| 08.03.2023 | Former student leader shot dead outside Mangosuthu University | A former student leader, 31, was reportedly shot dead outside Mangosuthu University of Technology by two unknown people. Image via Twitter/ @Shonny_SA
A former student leader at Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) in Umlazi, KwaZulu-N... |
| 08.03.2023 | NEHAWU protests: police deployed to Charlotte Maxeke Hospital | Police deployed to Charlotte Maxeke as Nehawu protesters barricade entrance. Image: Supplied/Neo Motloung
The police were deployed to Charlotte Maxeke Hospital as NEHAWU protesters blocked the entrance and exits of the hospital on Wednesday... |
| 07.03.2023 | Wits SRC president suspended, Dali Mpofu asked for legal help | Wits university SRC president Aphiwe Mnyamana. SRC asks Dali Mpofu for legal assistance. Images via Twitter and Facebook
Wits Student Representative Council (SRC) president Aphiwe Mnyamana has been suspended by the university on Monday, 6 M... |
| 06.03.2023 | Former FeesMustFall leader gives WITS VC 1 day to respond to Letter | Former FeesMustFall activist Bonginkosi Khanyile wants answers from WITS VC. Photo: Bonginkosi Khanyile/ Facebook/ Twitter
Former FeesMustFall leader Bonginkosi Khanyile has given the Vice Chancellor of Witwatersrand University (WITS) a day... |
| 06.03.2023 | WATCH: Security pepper spray Wits students | Security personnel pepper sprayed Wits University students. Image: Screenshot/Twitter/@lunga_mzangwe
Security personnel at Wits University in Johannesburg pepper-sprayed students trying to enter the administration block.
ALSO READ: Another ... |
| 24.02.2023 | Budget: Activist not happy about decision not to increase sugar tax | The flash mob by HEALA featured a choreographed dance in which learners pretended to refuse sugary drinks. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks via Groundup
Article originally published on GroundUp By Daniel Steyn
They want the tax to be increased from ... |
| 17.01.2023 | RIP Frene Ginwala: First speaker of SA’s democratic parliament | South Africa’s first democratic parliament speaker. Image from Twitter/@SAfmRadio
Frene Ginwala, feisty feminist, astute political tactician and committed cadre of South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has die... |
| 02.01.2023 | Remembering slain final year medical students of 2022 | The slain medical students, Wiseman Mthunzi Zwane and Mandy Maloka. Photo: File.
The year that has passed (2022) had its fair share of horrifying ordeals and one that stood out was the murder of medical students in country.
THE DEATH OF MAN... |
| 14.11.2022 | Worker Organisations Can Survive The Digital Age. Here’s How | Food Courier |
| 14.11.2022 | Digital AGE: Can worker organisations survive it? | In South Africa, Uber Eats workers have demonstrated their structural power by collectively logging off the app. In Colombia, Rappi delivery workers have successfully organised transnational strikes with support from established unions and ... |
| 02.11.2022 | Public Service: Real spending is falling, but DEMAND is growing | For the criminal justice sector, our analysis shows that by 2010 the level of spending had increased to more than R2 000 per citizen. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, however, spending had fallen below R1 700 per citizen. Phot... |
| 20.10.2022 | Wits To Kick-Start A National Quantum Technologies Initiative With R54 Million Funding | Wits University |
| 04.10.2022 | 100 Years Of Innovation And Inventions: South African Vice Chancellor Reflects On What’s Next | Vice Chancellor Professor Zeblon Vilakazi and others in the IBM Lab at the opening of Wits university’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct. Lauren Mulligan/Wits University |
| 16.09.2022 | A South African university publisher makes it to 100 | A rare and important event: A South African university publisher makes it to 100: Image: Adobe stock
In the past month, my email has served up two contrasting examples of the state of scholarly publishing in African countries. The one was a... |
| 17.08.2022 | Auto manufacturing changes: how South Africa can adjust to protect workers and jobs | Auto manufacturing changes how South Africa can adjust to protect workers and jobs: Image: Adobe stock
Technological changes in industry have given rise to contending schools of thought about their impact on work and workers. Automation is ... |
| 16.08.2022 | Auto Manufacturing Is Changing: How South Africa Can Adjust To Protect Workers And Jobs | Employees work on manufacturing a car at a Volkswagen plant in Uitenhage, South Africa. Photo by Michael Sheehan/picture alliance via Getty Images |
| 31.07.2022 | July saw the killing of two promising medical students| RIP | The slain medical students, Wiseman Mthunzi Zwane and Mandy Maloka. Photo: File.
As we conclude the month of July, South Africa is reminded of the killing of two promising medical students.
Slain medical student Wiseman Mthunzi Zwane. Photo... |
| 21.07.2022 | How are digital labour platforms subjecting global South workers to ‘algorithmic insecurity’ | How are digital labour platforms subjecting global South workers to ‘algorithmic insecurity’: Image: Adobe stock
Digital labour platforms are rapidly transforming the world of work. Many governments in the global south have welcomed platfor... |
| 19.07.2022 | Digital Labour Platforms Subject Global South Workers To ‘Algorithmic Insecurity’ | Protesting food delivery workers in São Paulo, Brazil. Getty Images |
| 07.05.2022 | Cops accused of killing Mthokozisi Ntumba at protest found NOT guilty | Mthokozisi Ntumba was killed during a student protest in Johannesburg last year. The police officers accused of his murder were found not guilty. PHOTO:
Four police officers are acquitted of murder charges on Tuesday for allegedly killing M... |
| 04.04.2022 | R50 million donation to advance innovation in South Africa | Wits University alumnus and US-based innovator, Dr David Fine, has donated R50mil to Wits University to establish a Chair in Innovation
Alumnus Dr David Fine's generous donation will be used to establish the Angela and David Fine Chair in I... |
| 18.11.2021 | Wits University Leads Efforts To Connect Informal Settlements To High-Speed Internet | Internet sign. Photo by Leon Seibert on Unsplash
Wits University is leading efforts to develop low-cost, long-range free-space optics that can connect informal settlement communities to high-speed internet.
Imagine beaming light from a fibr... |
| 18.11.2021 | Wits University Leads Efforts To Connect Informal Settlements To High-Speed Internet | Internet sign. Photo by Leon Seibert on Unsplash |
| 18.11.2021 | Debating the human rights issue around vaccine mandates | Even though the concept of compulsory vaccinations is not new, the debate has been given a new focus following many local companies considering implementing vaccine mandates for employees from the new year. Ian McAlister, General Manager at... |
| 04.11.2021 | Forensic Science Is Unlocking The Mysteries Of Fatal Lightning Strikes | Lightning storm over Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr Carina Schumann, Johannesburg Lightning Research Lab, University of the Witwatersrand., CC BY-NC
Lightning is one of the most powerful sources of energy in the natural environment. As anyo... |
| 04.11.2021 | Forensic Science Is Unlocking The Mysteries Of Fatal Lightning Strikes | Lightning storm over Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr Carina Schumann, Johannesburg Lightning Research Lab, University of the Witwatersrand., CC BY-NC |
| 28.10.2021 | A Brief History of Online Influence Operations | The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series resumed last week, revealing that the platform took action against an online campaign to set up a new right-wing “Patriot Party” after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Earlier this month news outlets ... |
| 08.09.2021 | Wits Leads Ambitious Partnership To Drive AI In Africa | Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, Vice-Chancellor of Wits University
Wits University today invited Africa’s research community to join its newly formed AI Africa Consortium which aims to develop a collaborative network focussed on the advancement ... |
| 08.09.2021 | Wits Leads Ambitious Partnership To Drive AI In Africa | Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, Vice-Chancellor of Wits University |
| 31.08.2021 | Are You Quantum Or Not? Wits PhD Student Cracks The High-Dimensional Quantum Code | Isaac Nape, Wits PhD Physics student_CREDIT_WITS UNIVERSITY |
| 31.08.2021 | Are You Quantum Or Not? Wits PhD Student Cracks The High-Dimensional Quantum Code | Isaac Nape, Wits PhD Physics student_CREDIT_WITS UNIVERSITY
Isaac Nape, an emerging South African talent in the study of quantum optics, is part of a crack team of Wits physicists who led an international study that revealed the hidden stru... |
| 08.02.2021 | South Africa halted the rollout of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine after new analysis finds it 'provides minimal protection' from new variant | A vial and sryinge are seen in front of a displayed AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021. Reuters/Dado Ruvic
South Africa is halting its rollout of the AstraZeneca-University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.
A new analysi... |
| 20.01.2021 | S. African Wealth Tax Could Raise $10.7 Billion, Study Shows
S. African Wealth Tax Could Raise $10.7 Billion, Study Shows | (Bloomberg) -- An annual wealth tax on the net worth of South Africa’s richest people could raise as much as 160 billion rand ($10.7 billion) and would narrow inequality in a nation where the most affluent 1% of the population own 55% of pe... |
