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The Department of Transport (DoT) is researching options for a hybrid funding model for the Road Accident Fund (RAF) that will include both private and public contributions to lessen the burden on the fiscus going forward. Deputy Minister of Transport Mkhuleko Hlengwa told parliament this on Tuesday during the DoT’s budget vote, stressing that the current RAF model is not financially sustainable. Hlengwa said the department also intends to introduce the Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill (Rabs) to parliament this year, with the proposed framework providing for defined structured benefits on a no-fault basis. Minister of Transpor

The City of Cape Town (CoCT) is embroiled in another tariff dispute, this time about alleged overcharging of consumers for electricity for several years, with questions hanging over the determination of its new tariffs for the financial year starting on 1 July. This is a complex matter that may still see CoCT being vindicated, says electricity pricing expert Deon Conradie. It comes against the backdrop of a recent court order declaring the city’s cleaning levy and fixed water and sanitation charges – all based on property value – unlawful. The Western Cape High Court set these tariffs aside, suspending the order until 30 Ju

The Africa/France summit, co-hosted by Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France and William Ruto of Kenya, brought together leaders and top officials from more than 30 countries across the continent.

Bassek Ba Kobhio, a driving force in Cameroonian cinema, has died aged 69.

The Africa Forward summit, co-hosted by Kenya and France in Nairobi, has wrapped up. Paris is seeking to renew its engagement with the continent, following years of strained ties with its former colonies.

The idea of putting data centres in orbit sounds thrilling. Until you dig deeper. My son Joseph works in AI in the Netherlands after having finished his graduate degree there. On a recent visit to Amsterdam he scolded me for my recent reporting on space-based data centres. From where he sits, in the centre of industry, surrounded by serious techies, the whole enterprise looks like a boondoggle. Too many challenges. Too much hype. IPO pumping. Future financial disasters and engineering failures a foregone conclusion. I was not being critical enough, he chided. So I have gone into the weeds again, with a more jaundiced eye. The orbital data centre pitch is truly seductive. AI is eating energy

Google's central message was that Android is moving from being an operating system to what it calls an “intelligent system.”

From Sea Monster’s global King’s Trust International entrepreneurship game to FinMaster’s pizza-box-to-retail board game journey, South African developers are showing that financial literacy may stick better when it feels less like homework and more like play. The next frontier in financial literacy may not be another classroom worksheet, corporate social investment roadshow or fancy laminated budgeting pamphlet that gathers dust in a school office. That is not as frivolous as it sounds. In a country where too many young people leave school knowing more about trigonometry than compound interest, and where entrepreneurship is often sold as an escape hatch without enough practical support, gam