1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (285+ words) Former US president Barack Obama has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could be “dangerous” if not properly managed and urged Democrats to frame policy and governance agendas to tackle the issue, the New York Times said on Sunday. The remarks…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (332+ words) AI Parliamentarians come together in Cape Town this week for the 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC). The conference, hosted by South Africa’s parliament and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), will convene hundreds of legislators and parliamentary officials from across the world…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (761+ words) The latest instalment in the turmoil engulfing the South African Police Service (SAPS) raises an ethical question beyond the personalities occupying senior positions: when a state lawyer advises a public official, to whom does that lawyer owe allegiance? It was…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (905+ words) Basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube and the department’s director-general (DG), Mathanzima Mweli, are embroiled in a cold war as Mweli refuses to be subjected to a lifestyle audit by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). This is the latest episode in…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (821+ words) What do a DJ, a footballer, an actor, a podcaster, a controversial TV show presenter and a poet have in common? They are among a number of celebrities who have thrown their hats into the ring for the local government…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (673+ words) Activists have criticised March and March protests, saying unemployment, poverty and poor service delivery cannot be blamed on migrants. About 300 March and March protesters gathered for another “clean-up” demonstration against migrants outside the home affairs refugee reception offices on Che…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (859+ words) The ANC wants to block the DA from joining its appeal case at the Electoral Court against the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) refusal to accept a list of candidates from six municipalities that were not “submitted” by the…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (52+ words) TimesLIVE WATCH LIVE | Senzo Meyiwa murder trial The Bafana Bafana player was murdered in 2014 The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial resumes at the high court in Pretoria on Thursday morning. The case had been postponed due to the interpreter not feeling…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (816+ words) Long-simmering tensions between Ford and US President Donald Trump’s administration over the carmaker’s connections with Chinese companies boiled over this week in a contradictory flurry of Republican criticism and praise for the company. The dispute highlighted competing views of how…...

5+ day, 7+ min ago   (471+ words) A Woolworths customer who found maggots beneath packs of raw chicken at the retailer’s Bel Air store in North Riding, Johannesburg, says his biggest concern was not what he found, but how staff members responded so casually. John Mawere was…...