Dementia, and surprising things you can do to avoid it
The prospect of dementia is one of the more feared ailments we face. It is a hard thing to endure as its direct victim, or as one of the relatives who has to look after them and watch a loved one disappear.
The Hague Group’s Gandikota-Nellutla exposes her anti-Israel agenda
The executive secretary of the Hague Group, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, has exposed her anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda when she acknowledged on a call with over 108 people that their work was secretly coordinated by questionable groups that have been sanctioned by the US government and are based in Ramallah.
The stain that is our racialism
Terence, fruit of my loins, is speaking to me on the phone. The call is mine. He visits us sometimes, but phones only when overwhelmed by a rush of filial piety. In common parlance, this is known as feeling sorry for himself because he is a hangdog in the familial dogbox.
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 budget of 1.5% of GDP. Although this may seem like a step in the right direction, recent government spending behaviour has not encouraged enthusiasm for this bold ambition.
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.
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
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
Stop treating “representivity” as an unassailable gospel
News24 deputy politics editor Bongekile Macupe last week undertook a racial bean-counting exercise in the finest tradition of South Africa’s old census bureaucracy by naming all the new leadership figures and