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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on Friday, 14 March, that South Africa’s ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool was “no longer welcome” in the US, accusing him of being a “race-baiting politician who hates America”. Rasool was expelled barely two months after he arrived in Washington. It was…

Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year, says Distinguished Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University, Jonathan Jansen. He says Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world over, the routine issuing of…

Grant Cameron-Smith dubbed ‘the CrazyBikeGuy’ together with his 15-year-old son Julian, is embarking on an incredible 40-day cycling journey across Central Europe to support and amplify the voices of intellectually disabled adults. From the 30th of March, the father and son duo will be pedalling from Warsaw to Milan to…

At least 1.5 million SASSA beneficiaries still need to migrate from their gold cards to Postbank black cards before Thursday's deadline. Postbank currently serves 2.6 million grant recipients, but only 1.1 million have switched to the new black cards since the migration drive began. The deadline was originally set for…

In this weeks music feature musicologist Dr Sheldon Rocha Leal discusses how we have moved from auto-tune, to stand in vocalists and now AI and the copyright implications of all of this on the music business.