The GDE urges parents to remain patient while it ensures that every grade one and grade eight learner is placed for the 2026 academic year. Just under 5 000 grade one and eight learners remain without school placement for the upcoming academic year, the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has announced. These unique applicants refer…
Junaid Hussain, head of digital services support at Ricoh South Africa. South African companies are accelerating their digital transformation. For medium to large businesses, digital transformation offers huge gains in efficiency and competitiveness, but it also brings new risks. Every move to the cloud, automation rollout or AI deployment expands the attack surface for cyber…
A new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection (CEAP) warns that the current UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) systematically neglect animal welfare and health — a gap undermining progress on human health, environmental protection and social equity. Despite growing international support for a One Health…
Children and adolescents living with HIV-AIDS continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment and care, as shrinking funding threatens to increase their risks and reverse decades of progress, Unicef warned ahead of World AIDS Day. A recently published Unicef-UNAIDS modelling shows that, if programme coverage falls by half, an additional…
New York — Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment, and care, as shrinking funding threatens to increase their risks and reverse decades of progress, UNICEF warned today ahead of World AIDS Day. A recently published UNICEF-UNAIDS modelling shows that, if programme coverage falls…
The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund on Wednesday announced a major milestone, with the approval of more than $1 billion in support to global peacebuilding and conflict-prevention initiatives since 2020. The multi-donor trust fund is the UN’s primary instrument for supporting countries worldwide who are emerging from – or at risk of – violent conflict. The…
Across Africa, more than 600 million people live within reach of mobile broadband but remain offline. The reason is not network coverage, according to GSMA Africa head Angela Wamola as quoted by TechCabal, but the high cost of smartphones. For many households, an entry-level device still consumes a large share of monthly income. To address…
Four years after its landmark report A Global Deal for Our Pandemic Age, the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, recently reconvened by the South African G20 Presidency, has found that the world remains dangerously underprepared for future pandemics and must take urgent, coordinated action to…
In response to the UNEP Emissions Gap Report published today, Nafkote Dabi, Climate Policy Lead at Oxfam, said: “Just days before global leaders arrive in Brazil for COP30, this report is a blaring siren calling for greater climate action. “Since the Paris Agreement, the richest 1% have used up more than twice the carbon budget…
Financial markets expert and Managing Director of NG Clearing, Mr. Farooq Oreagba, has said that Africa is on the verge of unveiling an innovative financing model to bridge its infrastructure gap a move he believes could transform the continent’s development trajectory. Speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, Oreagba said he…
