Month: June 2025
News24 | French scientists find new blood type in Guadeloupe woman
A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, dubbed “Gwada negative,” France’s blood supply agency has announced.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Don’t cut your hair at night’: Pamela Mtanga, Nomzamo Mbatha talk hair superstitions
Hair is a significant and delicate part of who we are, and growing up as a black girl, one learns early on that hair requires care, commitment, and sometimes hours of attention to avoid breakage and damage.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ANALYSIS | Emile Ormond: South Africa unready for AI-era job disruption
Emerging economies like South Africa may be partially shielded from the initial waves of AI automation, but when it inevitably arrives, the country could be especially vulnerable due to its large, predominantly young labour force, writes Emile Ormond.
Continue ReadingNews24 | How robotic hives and AI are lowering the risk of bee colony collapse
Robotic hives are helping cut down bee colony losses as they can collect data and analyse the health of bees in real time.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Israel says it killed three Iranian commanders in fresh wave of strikes
Israel said on Saturday it had killed three Iranian commanders in its unprecedented bombing campaign across the Islamic republic, which Foreign Minister Gideon Saar claimed had already delayed Tehran’s presumed nuclear plans by two years.
Continue ReadingNews24 | UPDATE | SANDF soldier stabs colleague, and then himself, to death
A SANDF soldier who stabbed two fellow soldiers, killing one and injuring another, has died after he stabbed himself in the neck at the Macadamia Military Base near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, in the early hours of Saturday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ANALYSIS | Chris Roper: African audiences lead the global shift to social news
The 2025 Reuters Digital News Report reveals that news media in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa are among the world’s most trusted, even as social media and video platforms overtake traditional outlets, writes Chris Roper.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Opportunity for ‘reckoning and rebirth’: Bathabile Dlamini defends National Dialogue
ANC veteran and former minister Bathabile Dlamini has defended the National Dialogue, saying South Africans should not miss this opportunity for “reckoning, redirection and rebirth”.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Nthabi Nhlapo | Justice on trial: When prosecutors turn criminal
While it’s well documented that many private lawyers sometimes put their hands in the cookie jar, it feels almost like an abomination to think that prosecutors, who work directly for the state, would even attempt to break the law, writes Nthabi Nhlapo.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Magic can happen’: Sundowns can be outliers against Dortmund’s European might
Mamelodi Sundowns lead Group F at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, but on Saturday face a true test in Borussia Dortmund.
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