NAIROBI — National women’s volleyball team are to begin training in earnest for next month’s Africa Women’s Nations Volleyball Championships in Nairobi. This is after the Kenya Volleyball Federation (KVF) named a 25-woman provisional squad to assemble and commence preparations at the Kasarani Indoor Arena in the capital. “All invited players and officials are expected…
AI-driven automation is helping insurers reduce turnaround times, while strengthening fraud detection and operational efficiency. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a core part of South African insurers’ operating models, with firms using the technology to automate quoting, accelerate claims processing, strengthen fraud detection and improve customer service. While approaches differ, insurers increasingly view AI…
Francistown — The President of the All Africa Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (AAASME), Dr Ebiekure Eradiri has honoured President Advocate Duma Boko with the UbuntuSusu Continental SME Billion Fund recognition. The presentation was made on the sidelines of the Trade Up North 10th Anniversary in Francistown on Thursday. Speaking after the presentation, Dr…
“The release of The Odyssey is still an event to celebrate,” Wilson noted. “This epic is bringing audiences back to cinemas… translations of Odyssey, including mine, are flying off the shelves… [and] perhaps the film will persuade a few college administrators not to cut their literature, language and history departments. “Nolan… is doing his best…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — The global fight against HIV has never had more powerful scientific tools or faced greater political uncertainty. More than 7,000 scientists, activists, policymakers and community leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the opening of the International AIDS Conference. Global leaders warned that decades of progress against the epidemic could be…
Keeping an IoT deployment connected across markets and continents has traditionally meant shipping physical Sim cards across borders, sending engineers to swap them and troubleshooting hardware that is difficult to reach. As deployments expand across countries and use cases, those manual steps become a scaling bottleneck, and every extra touchpoint adds cost, delay and risk….
The African armyworm is a highly destructive migratory pest that damages maize, sorghum, millet and sugarcane. These caterpillars also cause indirect damage to livestock as they destroy grazing lands and pastures. The last major outbreak of armyworm in southern Africa was from February to April 2025. It affected South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal, Limpopo, Gauteng and…
A strong 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. A tsunami alert was issued. The alert was for a one-meter-(about one yard) high tsunami, according to the Reuters news service. Reuters said the quake struck Japan’s Kumamoto prefecture. The temblor measured at the highest possible level of seven on Japan’s…
South Africa started processing undocumented migrants at a temporary repatriation centre in Musina, a border town with Zimbabwe, in July 2026. This followed weeks of intensified anti-migrant rhetoric and xenophobic violence. The facility has raised questions about whether the country could be moving towards a more camp-based approach to managing migrants and refugees. This would…
LanDynamix Founder and CEO, Peter Clarke. Payment fraud is a critical and growing crisis in South Africa. It is costing billions of rands annually and showing massive spikes in digital banking and mobile app fraud. Criminals are increasingly utilising advanced social engineering, AI deepfakes and bank impersonation scams to manipulate victims into authorising transactions. This…
