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"The ANC is losing ground to the EFF in that vital community, black youth. Young people worldwide are not interested in attending monthly meetings at which elderly people give rambling talks on the proud history of their movement – young people want action, protests, burning tyres, walking on and over the lines of legality. This the EFF offers, while the ANC Youth League is moribund, conceding this cohort of voters to the EFF."

"We implore the legislature to reconsider the entire clause 12A and 12D until a proper socio-economic impact assessment has been done. We are legitimately concerned that fair use will diminish legal certainty and harm authors and publishers by diminishing their work, and creating a climate for freely using their work without permission or compensation."

"It’s why casinos are loud, have no clocks and give you free stuff every few spins. Like casinos, pachinko machines or Candy Crush, houses might be aware that some of their customers are there to go on a date, and then to lose a moerse klomp money over a f#%$n bunny chow."

"I was tired of wanting to regain compliments on my exterior, yet I was also tired of the dreadful comments directed at my weight. I had to learn how to love myself again."

"What sustains churchgoers then, other than blind faith? What empirical evidence is there for the existence of God? Perhaps if there was something more tangible for this woke and plugged-in generation concretely to put their hands on, then they may come to believe, as Kate Forbes does. I decided to put the question to ChatGPT."

"The social determinants of health include factors such as income, unemployment and job insecurity, education, working conditions, food insecurity, early childhood development and access to health services. Research shows that these social determinants can be more important than healthcare or lifestyle choices in influencing health."

At least 13 Ukrainian and foreign journalists and media workers have been killed since 24 February 2022 while carrying out their professional duties.

"Google makes about 80% of its revenue from search. And up until now, they’ve more or less had a monopoly on search, with over 90% of the world’s search queries going through Google. In fact, we don’t talk about searching for something online; we talk about googling it. But monopolies can fall. Remember Skype?"

"The provision of reliable energy is at the centre of South Africa's ability to solve the scourge of poverty, unemployment, inequality, violent crime ..." | "Yiyo kuphela indlela enokukwazi ukusikhupha kula manyundululu orhwaphilizo kulungiswe eli ziko uEskom aphuhlise isizwe, azise impilo engcono kwabo babetheka kakhulu yintlupheko nokulamba."

"Currently, SU has adopted a visual redress policy to come to terms with its historical relations with the apartheid state structure. Starting in 2015, student protests, namely #Rhodesmustfall, #Feesmustfall and #OpenStellenbosch, called for 'transformation' and 'decolonisation' at historically white universities. SU reacted by choosing 'visual redress' as one of its core responses to these protests."

"In 1994, ignorant of this future, and on a national consensus of all political parties, we set out to do something that no country before us had done – we set out to deliver a welfare state to a country with a rapidly growing population, in the absence of an oil bonanza or some such."

"What’s gone wrong with Mandela’s ANC?"

"Dignified to the last is how she will be remembered."

"The legendary Boer War hero, Koos de la Rey, was a kind of Volodymyr Zelensky of his day – a 'bittereinder' tactical genius (he introduced trench warfare to South Africa) who refused to surrender to Lord Roberts after the capture of Pretoria, and tormented the British imperial army to the 'bitter end'."

"Politics is a dynamic field, and one can only hope that one way we as South Africans can have a future of some sort, lies in the energies of the next generation of leaders who bear with them the qualities of integrity."

"This is the traditional end of the seasonal (and astrological) cycle when we take stock of what lies ahead. New Year’s resolutions are wheeled out, and everyone has a crystal ball."

Wil jy deelneem en jou opinie gee? ChatGPT van OpenAI en die vermoëns van kunsmatige intelligensie het almal aan die gons. Kan ’n KI-romanskrywer die Hertzogprys ontvang? Waar gaan uitgewers hulself posisioneer? En skryf studente binnekort opstelle met KI-sagteware? Hoe gaan studieleiers weet of ’n verhandeling volledig of gedeeltelik deur ’n student geskryf is? Watter invloed gaan dit op geakkrediteerde akademiese tydskrifte hê? Hoe gaan die media daarmee omgaan? Wat wag op ons? Laat van jou hoor!

"By planting these and other drought-resistant indigenous plants in your garden, you can help to conserve water and create a beautiful, sustainable landscape. It is important to do your research and choose plants that are well-suited to the conditions in your area."

"From Fanon to Robert Sobukwe and Biko, these are prototypes of what Richard Wright called his 'split position' and 'double vision', which a Western-educated black man born in the Anglo-American-oppressive zeitgeist has to deal with."

"The beach quandary arose after I read a Rapport article, 'Jy swem eers, dan swem ons, Meneer die Burgemeester', which stated that Durban may be forced to keep their beaches closed due to high E. coli levels in the water."