SA needs to start thinking outside of Agoa
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A round-up of news updates, including how SA's Kirstenbosch has come out on top.
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[TOP STORY] Lottery scandal now engulfs SA media credibility
‘When there are concerns that money is affecting the way a news publication is reporting on a corrupt institution, that becomes an issue of immense public importance,’ says Nathan Geffen, editor of GroundUp.
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[TOP STORY] AI policy blunder highlights risks in SA’s tech strategy
‘The big tech businesses that we’re doing business with such as Microsoft, Huawei, Google, AWS, we’re accepting contracts on their terms, and we need a policy to cover that,’ says Nathan Ross-Adams, AI law researcher and founder of ITLawCo.