A man looks inside the Changan Deepal S05 REEV during a press conference for the unveiling of the Chinese model at the WesBank Festival of Motoring. Nqobile Dludla/Reuters Chinese car makers launched a raft of electric, hybrid and bakkie models at South Africa’s biggest motor show last week, betting on growing demand for electrified vehicles…
The Osher Map Library, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century. Correspondent Martha Teichner explores the world as depicted by cartographers, through maps that are whimsical, political, or intentionally distorted, and examines why – in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=7SYogg8ILAD3tUG3&v=AxAgeglgSeA&feature=youtu.be Electronic Arts Inc. and Bit Reactor, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, announced today that Star Wars Zero Company™, a single-player turn-based tactics game set in the twilight of the Clone Wars™, is now available for PC via the EA app, Steam, and Epic Games Store, and PlayStation®5 and XBOX Series consoles. In Star Wars…
KNVB invites associations and confederations to a summit to discuss the overhaul of FIFA and how it runs football. Published On 30 Aug 202630 Aug 2026 FIFA president Gianni Infantino must be replaced by 2027, along with an overhaul of football’s global governing body, the Dutch football association (KNVB) has said. The KNVB, one of…
A solar farm at Gold Fields’ South Deep mine, south-west of Johannesburg. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters South Africa’s mining firms are accelerating investment in renewable energy as they seek to diversify power sources, cut costs and meet decarbonisation targets, marking a shift after decades of reliance on state utility Eskom. Anglo American and Sibanye Stillwater are among…
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on Aug. 24, 2026. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. struck a deal with Venezuela to get majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves as the war with Iran roils the global…
The AfCFTA offers African cotton, textile and clothing businesses the opportunity to build cross-border production networks, attract investment and retain more value on the continent. And it can do so while providing the shared rules and larger market needed to strengthen factories and trade corridors. More than five years after trading began under the African…
Rennie Naidoo, Professor of Information Systems at the Wits School of Business Sciences. Few ideas in cyber security have been repeated as often, or accepted as easily, as the claim that the end-user is the weakest link. It appears in awareness programmes, boardroom presentations, vendor messaging, academic journals and conference speeches. The reasoning is familiar….
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has long denied President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he’s refusing to accept his own election loss in the GOP primary for governor of Minnesota. The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Lindell’s bid Saturday to order a full recount of his Aug. 11 loss to state House Speaker…
Nvidia’s B300 GPU South African start-up Stratos Lab has begun deploying what it and its partners say will be the most powerful AI cloud on the continent, built on Nvidia’s latest shipping B300 “Blackwell Ultra” GPUs and hosted at a data centre in Centurion, north of Johannesburg. The stack will be up within three months….
