South African prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against the country’s suspended police chief after concluding there was insufficient evidence to secure a conviction. General Fannie Masemola was charged in April with failing in his duties to provide proper oversight in his role following a health contract that became the subject of a criminal investigation. He…
The City of Cape Town has begun drafting refined development guidelines for large-scale data centre applications, marking its first formal acknowledgment that current municipal approval frameworks require systemic reform. The policy shift arrives alongside confirmation that a controversial rezoning approval granted in July for a hyperscale data centre precinct at King Air Industria has been…
Tech personality Stafford Masie. (Source: Stafford Masie) As three suspended senior figures at Africa Bitcoin Corporation (ABC) gear up to fight a Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) enforcement order, well-known tech personality Stafford Masie has stepped into the CEO role. With the executives suspended, Masie, an existing ABC executive director, director of Bitcoin strategy and…
The JSE has suspended trading in Labat Africa’s shares with immediate effect after the technology investment holding company failed to pay the first dividend in its 27 years as a listed company. In a notice published on Thursday, the JSE said Labat had failed to pay the declared dividend in accordance with the corporate action…
Department of Communications and Digital Technologies director-general Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani. (Photograph by DCDT) The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) has placed two unnamed officials on precautionary suspension with immediate effect, pending the ongoing investigation into the Draft National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy. This, after minister Solly Malatsi recently withdrew the draft policy from public…
Home affairs minister Dr Leon Schreiber. (Image source: Department of Home Affairs) The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is suspending two senior officials with immediate effect following the detection of apparent artificial intelligence (AI) “hallucinations” cited as references appended to the recently Cabinet-approved Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection. In a statement…
An Australian senator has been suspended for a week after wearing a burka in parliament to push for a ban on the Muslim garment. Pauline Hanson was condemned by fellow senators – and later formally censured – for the stunt on Monday, with one colleague accusing her of “blatant racism”. The Queensland senator, of the…
According to local media reports, the EMA sent a letter to Germany’s international broadcaster on 23 October, claiming that the broadcaster and its local correspondents had “violated Ethiopian law and regulations, and failed to respect professional ethics”. The country’s media authority did not seem to have specified when this suspension would be lifted. Responding to…
New York – Sweeping aid cuts are dismantling the very organizations that are critical to ending violence against women and girls. The new UN Women report, At Risk and Underfunded, based on a global survey of 428 women’s rights and civil society organizations, finds that on the back of cuts by governments, more women are at risk of…
A longtime ally, adviser and fundraiser for New York Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his re-election effort after she was accused of attempting to hand a local journalist a cash-stuffed potato chip bag. Winnie Greco was outed by a local news organization, The City, for trying to give cash surreptitiously tucked inside a Herr’s…
