China’s President Xi Jinping has touched down at Joint Base Andrews as he begins a much anticipated official state visit. US counterpart Donald Trump took the rare step and greeted Xi in person on the tarmac. Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026 Share China’s Xi arrives to Trump welcome on state visit on social…
Outgoing Nedbank COO Mfundo Nkuhlu South Africa will not shake its dependence on cash until it fixes identity, outgoing Nedbank chief operating officer Mfundo Nkuhlu said on Tuesday, arguing that a working national digital ID is the precondition for pulling the country’s unbanked into the formal payments system. “The key requirement will be the advent…
LAEM CHABANG, Thailand — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier arrived Wednesday at a port in eastern Thailand, where thousands of U.S. sailors and Marines are disembarking for the first time in more than 280 days after a record-setting deployment in the Middle East. The toll of the more than nine-month deployment, most of it…
For years, the crypto industry’s biggest challenge has been finding users beyond traders. Now, some of its largest companies think they’ve found them in AI agents. Although speculation still underpins much of crypto’s business, companies are trying to build a second growth engine by turning agents into users of crypto wallets, stablecoins and payment networks….
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister Temesgen Tiruneh has arrived in Accra to attend the Extraordinary Summit of African Union Heads of State and Government on Health. African leaders are convening in Accra to chart a path toward a more self-reliant, resilient, and sustainable health future for the continent, ENA reports from Accra. Upon…
President Donald Trump arrived in Turkey Tuesday for a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as the alliance is squeezed by Russia’s continuing military aggression in Ukraine and America’s growing insistence that NATO members quickly beef up their defense spending. Those pressing concerns come on top of lingering controversies surrounding the U.S.’ war against…
Universities around the world – and in South Africa – are having an identity crisis, and generative AI is the trigger. More than three years after ChatGPT walked into the lecture hall, the debate has moved well past cheating. In a recent piece in New York magazine, a Columbia undergraduate boasted of using AI to…
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric says the world body is closely monitoring South Africa’s planned protests against undocumented migrants. Amnesty International accuses March and March of encouraging the public to carry out unlawful “citizen’s arrests” of suspected migrants. The United Nations has stepped into South Africa’s anti-immigration crisis, calling for calm as nationwide protests begin on…
A Chinese political dissident who fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada, his friend said on social media Saturday. Dong Guangping was aboard a 10.8-foot inflatable boat in the waters off a western South Korean island in May when he was detained by South Korea’s coast guard for allegedly…
Fibertime founder Alan Knott-Craig Fibertime, the pay-as-you-go township fibre network founded by serial telecoms entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig, has reaveled that it has recorded download speeds of 1Gbit/s on its network in Alexandra, Johannesburg – a notable marker for a service better known for its price than its raw performance. In a post on LinkedIn, Knott-Craig…
