Sofa, so good, but Ramaphosa won’t wake up in the shower
30 years into the constitution, and South Africans are tuning in to the Phala Phala drama like Dallas in prime time. Podcasters add to it.
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Ramaphosa claims mining is proof of BEE success!
On today's Daily Friend Show, John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer discuss Ramaphosa's answers to a Q&A in parliament about BEE, the role of MK and the EFF in the impeachment hearings, the cold reality of provincial finances, and the Madlanga
Germany funded its defence turn, South Africa hasn’t
The Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, recently announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet has formally endorsed the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) “Journey to Greatness” 30-year plan to rebuild South Africa’s armed forces and eventually reach a defence
AI is not governable, Mr. Malatsi
Leaving aside the farcical release of an AI-generated AI policy full of AI hallucinations, why do we need an AI policy at all?
NHI is an arrogant government in action
The NHI is a system that risks infecting – like a virus – the entire healthcare system to the public inefficiencies, corruption, waste and mismanagement extremely prevalent in the public healthcare system.
Cancel UK elections until further notice
The UK is about to have a new Prime Minister, or not, but if it is, the condition has already been set.
Ramaphosa fires Tolashe
Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan discuss the dismissal of Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe. They also discuss sweatshops in KZN and the ANC’s sink-or-swim moment. https://youtu.be/EjBFRTjXYMQ?si=fS16S0eocbe2BQ7T
Denying Britain’s achievements in abolishing slavery
South Africa’s draft history curriculum ignores 5,000 years of African enslavement and focuses instead on the roughly 300 years of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. It also excludes Britain’s enormous achievements in abolishing that trade and ending slavery in many parts
Sci-fi grokked AI when your grandpa was still young
Today’s artificial intelligence was anticipated many decades ago. Let’s dive into the literature. When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT upon the world a little over three years ago, and it was followed in quick succession by rapidly improving artificial intelligence models that