Court clears AARTO rollout, SAPO to deliver notices

Court clears AARTO rollout, SAPO to deliver notices

AARTO is set to be implemented in another 69 municipalities this month. (Image: RTIA, redrawn by GenAI) The South African Local Government Agency (SALGA) on Wednesday lost a court bid in the Pretoria High Court to stop the rollout of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) programme. This clears the way for phase…

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Google Cloud Region forecasts R1.7tn boost for SA

Google Cloud Region forecasts R1.7tn boost for SA

Maureen Costello, VP for UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa at Google Cloud, with Discovery founder and group CEO Adrian Gore. Google’s Johannesburg Cloud Region is expected to contribute $90.6 billion (R1.7 trillion) in additional gross economic output and support almost 315 000 jobs in SA by 2030. This, as African businesses accelerate the adoption of…

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Africa: Ulysses in Isizulu – Why an African Translation of the Classic Irish Novel Matters in Today’s World

Africa: Ulysses in Isizulu – Why an African Translation of the Classic Irish Novel Matters in Today’s World

Every year on 16 June, readers around the world celebrate Bloomsday, the annual commemoration of Irish writer James Joyce‘s landmark 1922 novel Ulysses. The date marks the single day on which the novel unfolds: 16 June 1904, when its protagonist, Leopold Bloom, wanders through the city of Dublin. What began as a literary observance has…

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