The Justice Department announced the arrest Wednesday of a former Air Force fighter pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military personnel without authorization. Gerald Brown, 65, was arrested in Indiana after recently returning to the United States from China, where he’d been since December 2023, a Justice Department statement said. He is accused of having “conspired…
The Google News Initiative (GNI), in partnership with the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) and the Daily Maverick, has launched a local language pilot programme aimed at supporting community and vernacular language publishers across South Africa. Abongile Mashele, Government Affairs and Public Policy | image supplied The programme was officially launched on 20 January…
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Esa Alexander/Reuters South Africa’s largest e-commerce platform, Takealot.com, has partnered with sister company Mr D Food to offer customers the delivery of products in the same time it might take them to order and receive fast food. Users of the Takealot app will be able to identify participating products via a “get it now” option…
South Africa is estimated to generate over 360 000 tonnes of e-waste annually. An electronic waste (e-waste) recycling pilot project has been introduced, to address the “growing crisis” of e-waste management in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The pilot was launched yesterday in Alexander Township by Bernice Swarts, deputy minister in the Department of Forestry, Fisheries…
A Southwest Airlines pilot, pulled out of a cockpit and arrested on allegations that he tried to fly while impaired, blamed nicotine pouches when police told him he smelled of alcohol, according to law enforcement video released on Thursday. David Allsop was minutes away from going wheels up at the helm of Flight 3772 out…
DHL Supply Chain launches first electric Superlink truck with Unilever and Volvo Trucks SA. DHL Supply Chain, in collaboration with Unilever and Volvo Trucks, has launched an electric vehicle (EV) truck pilot in South Africa. This pilot, which commenced on 1 August, is testing a fully electric Volvo FMX 6×4 tractor and 18m curtain-sided Superlink…
