Hisense TVs now include a free sports channel in South Africa
South African owners of Hisense smart TVs have gained access to a dedicated 24/7 free-to-air sports channel, SportsCast Africa, integrated directly into the manufacturer’s proprietary VIDAA operating system. Available natively via the platform’s TV Channels feature, the service provides continuous sports coverage without requiring a paid subscription, user registration, or additional app downloads. Read: ASUS…
Mail ballot concerns are changing how Democrats vote
Democrats are changing how they vote, requesting fewer mail ballots than in past elections but returning the ones they do request more quickly, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk analysis of the early vote conducted in coordination with the University of Pennsylvania. The findings, which come less than four weeks before Election Day,…
ITWeb TV: AI-driven fraud rises as criminals target human trust
AI-driven fraud is rising across Africa, with criminals exploiting human behaviour and trust rather than system vulnerabilities, says Thalia Pillay, CEO of Orca Fraud. In an interview with ITWeb Africa editor Samuel Mungadze, Pillay says criminals are deploying increasingly sophisticated AI-powered tactics to circumvent security controls. Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven fraud is on the rise across…
Africa’s Wildlife Population Plunges By 80% in Five Decades, WWF Warns
Wildlife populations monitored across Africa have declined by an average of 80 percent over the past five decades, according to a major new assessment by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which warns that changes to energy, food and financial systems are essential to reversing biodiversity loss. The conservation organisation’s Living Planet Report 2026…
US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condems as ‘assault on rule of law’
The UK joined Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands in reaffirming their “continued and unwavering support” for the ICC and said they “regret and strongly disagree with” the sanctions. They also praised the court’s staff for their work bringing “those accused of the most serious international crimes to justice”, as well as…
Africa: Legacy of Slavery and Colonialism Is Still Fuelling Racism – UN Rights Chief
The legacy of enslavement and colonialism continues to shape the lives of Africans and people of African descent, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Thursday, calling for urgent action to deliver reparatory justice beyond financial compensation. Over 30 million people were violently uprooted from Africa and condemned to a life of slavery. Yet…
Shoprite ranks cybersecurity as its number one risk
Shoprite Group CEO Pieter Engelbrecht Shoprite has graded the controls protecting it against cyberattacks and data breaches as only “partially effective”, the weakest rating it gives any of its six core business risks. Its own figures show data breaches rising for a second year in a row. The disclosure is in the retailer’s 2026 integrated…
Africa: WHO Warns Africa Off Track On Malaria Goals As Climate Change Threatens Elimination Push
Nairobi — Africa is off track to meet its malaria reduction targets, with climate change, biological resistance, shrinking donor funding and inadequate intervention coverage threatening efforts to eliminate the disease by 2030, the World Health Organization has warned. WHO Kenya Deputy Representative Dr. Boston Zimba said the continent accounted for 94 per cent of global…
Iran’s Houthi allies kill 3 in strike on Saudi airport as Trump rules out pre-midterms strikes
Three Saudi citizens were killed and several other people “of different nationalities” were wounded in attacks targeting Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia Airlines aircraft, the kingdom’s civil aviation authority said Friday. Thursday’s attack was the deadliest in Saudi Arabia since the kingdom and allied forces in neighboring Yemen launched a major military…
Africa: Why Africa’s Agricultural Crisis Is a Matter of Race, Class and Epistemicide
Africa’s reliance on industrial agriculture reflects colonialism, inequality, and the erasure of indigenous knowledge, while intensive farming has driven soil degradation, environmental harm, poor nutrition and economic exploitation. Restoring agricultural sovereignty requires reclaiming indigenous knowledge, addressing land inequalities, and shifting toward regenerative ‘landculture’ centred on soil health, biodiversity, food security and community wellbeing. Across Africa,…
