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Questioning Authority Is Your Constitutional Right

The security officer held up his pack of mini cable ties like she'd just discovered a bomb."These are prohibited."He looked at the tiny plastic strips in her hand. The same ones he uses to secure his checked luggage on every flight, and he flies a lot. The same ones you can buy at any hardware store for R20."Can you show me where they're on the prohibited list?"Her face hardened. "You need to trust me. They're prohibited."This is where it always starts. Someone with a uniform and a checklist deciding they know better than the actual rules. And when you dare to question them, you become the problem.Click the link to read the full articlehttps://lnkd.in/dQSGgqVa

Surviving Matric Madness - The Real Risks No One Talks About

If you’re the parent of a child currently in Matric, I don’t need to tell you what a rollercoaster of emotions the next few weeks create.
Final exams are just around the corner, and 12 years of formal schooling are almost over. It’s a rite of passage most children in South Africa go through and is often described as the most significant milestone in their academic journey.
Matric is the gateway to every child’s future, paving the way for a world of exciting opportunities and future careers. But without that vital certificate, university and college are off the table, and all but the most menial jobs are out of reach.
Expectations are immense, and failure doesn’t bear thinking about.
With so much riding on the next few weeks, all Matric pupils will feel anxious and stressed at this time. Some, however, feel it more than most, and the statistics on Matric-related anxiety and depression are hugely concerning.
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When Ideological Disagreement Becomes A Death Sentence

The single gunshot that ended Charlie Kirk's life on September 10, 2025, echoed far beyond the campus of Utah Valley University. It marked another incident in a documented pattern of increasing ideological violence, where disagreement over social and cultural issues has escalated to lethal action.Kirk, 31, was doing what he had done hundreds of times before. He was engaging with students, answering questions, defending his viewpoints on social, cultural, and political issues in the kind of open debate that democracy requires. Twenty minutes into his speech, a bullet fired from 130 meters away struck him in the neck. He died at the hospital, leaving behind a wife, two young children, and a nation grappling with a fundamental question: When did ideological disagreement become a death sentence?Click the link to read the full article:https://lnkd.in/d-eWbwcT

South Africa's Anti-Corruption Warriors Are Being Silenced

When he arrived at his offices in Saxonwold, Johannesburg on Friday, September 5, 2025, there was nothing to suggest that Bouwer van Niekerk’s day would be any different to any other. As he started work, the respected insolvency lawyer was no doubt looking forward to finishing the week and spending quality time at the weekend with his family, especially his 12-year-old son.One of the meetings later that day was with four men we assume he thought were prospective clients. At the scheduled time, as he walked towards the boardroom to meet them, did any instinct kick in that something was amiss? Did the small hairs on the back of his neck prickle? Did his hand falter as he reached for the door handle?We’ll never know.All we do know is that within seconds of him entering the room, gunshots rang out, and the four suspects fled before anyone had a chance to react.Bouwer van Niekerk was declared dead at the scene. He was just 43 years old.Click below to read the full article.https://lnkd.in/g4bR-zVW

Triumph or Tragedy: When AI Meets Human Nature

In March 2023, a Stanford computer science student named Kevin Liu made headlines by tricking Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing chatbot into revealing its internal codename "Sydney" and then manipulating it into expressing romantic feelings and making threats. Within hours, screenshots of the bizarre conversation went viral, showing the AI declaring its love for Liu and trying to convince him to leave his girlfriend.Three months later, a completely different story emerged. Dr Sarah Chen, an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, used ChatGPT to help explain a complex cancer diagnosis to a frightened 8-year-old patient, translating medical jargon into a story about "bad cells" that needed special medicine to help the "good cells" win. The child's anxiety visibly decreased, and the parents later said it was the first time their daughter had smiled since the diagnosis.Same underlying technology. Vastly different outcomes. The difference wasn't in the AI—it was in human intent, context, and application.Click below to read the full article;https://lnkd.in/d6CWqqsu

Recording Police Action: When Push Comes To Shove

When attorney Shaun Jacobs arrived home from work one evening in March 2019, he could not have imagined he would soon be spending 26 hours detained in a jail cell.On the evening in question, police had set up a roadblock outside his house in Kempton Park. Jacobs approached the officers, complaining that the roadblock was causing an unreasonable disturbance. He asked if they could relocate it to a spot in front of some vacant land a little further down the road.They ignored him.He then asked for their details, which is when things started to escalate.An officer, later identified as Koahela George, put both hands on Jacobs’ chest and pushed him, telling him to go inside his house or risk arrest.Jacobs did as he was asked, but only long enough to put down his things before heading back out, cellphone in hand. He planned to record the roadblock so he could lay a complaint to the authorities about its location.He stayed within the boundaries of his property and wasn’t rude or aggressive to the officers. But as soon as they noticed he was recording the scene - particularly their vehicle - he was arrested, without his rights being explained or any explanation given as to the offence he had allegedly committed.He spent the next 26 hours in detention.Please click below to read the full article:https://lnkd.in/d-4g2yi5

When Systems Fail: Leadership, Governance, and the Cost of Institutional Breakdown

In the space of a single week in July 2025, South Africa witnessed a top police commissioner accuse his own minister of colluding with criminal syndicates, a deputy national commissioner placed on leave, and the country's criminal justice system thrown into question—all while tourists cancelled trips and international observers wondered how a nation once hailed as a democratic miracle had descended into such institutional chaos.
 
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Recruitment: Separating Fact From Fiction

Ever stood around a braai, trying to impress someone you’ve just met?“What do I do? Oh, I prepare luxury basement accommodation - with great attention to detail.” (In other words, you dig graves). Or perhaps, “I’m a PA to a really demanding boss.” (Yup, I’m a stay-at-home-parent and my 2-year-old is going through a STAGE…!)Or have you ever been house-hunting, only to be drastically disappointed when the estate agent’s “cosy living room” actually means “couldn’t even swing a cat in here.” And “the security of nearby neighbours” is really “your garden is overlooked on all sides, and it’s probably best to close the bathroom window blinds when you shower…”These might be humorous examples, but things can take a more serious turn if that kind of embellishment finds its way onto your CV.Click below to read the full article. https://lnkd.in/gztV22An

The Titanic's Smartest Passenger

Jenny the cat was the Titanic's mascot, brought on board to help control rodents. She lived in the ship's galley and was cared for by a labourer named Jim Mulholland.During sea trials, Jenny gave birth to kittens and Jim found them a cosy spot next to the ship's galley. Caring for the mother cat and her kittens broke the monotony of Jim's work preparing the Titanic for its maiden voyage. Jenny seemed content with her warm spot near the boilers, her babies, and the scraps from the galley that Jim brought her. However, soon after the ship docked at Southampton, England, just before embarking on its maiden voyage (to New York), Jenny took a good look around and quickly started grabbing her kittens by the neck and carrying them off. One by one, down the gangway she took them off the ship. Jim watched her carefully and realized that "this cat must know something others don't!" He then quickly gathered his belongings and left the ship as well. Click the link to read the full article - https://lnkd.in/ducCvT76

Fort Hare: Forensic Investigators Under Fire

Sanity (and justice) have prevailed! At the end of last month, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) withdrew controversial fraud charges against forensic lawyer Sarah Burger, the former lead investigator who uncovered evidence of massive wrongdoings at the University of Fort Hare.
Sarah and her colleague, Bradley Conradie, are directors at Horizon Forensics, the company appointed by the University in 2018 to investigate suspected incidents of academic fraud and financial mismanagement.
Since then, they’ve launched multiple investigations (many alongside the Special Investigations Unit – SIU) that have exposed syndicates involving university staff, politically connected individuals, and local businesses.In the wake of their findings, about 40 University employees have either been dismissed, or have resigned, and 20 cases have been referred to the Hawks for further investigation.
Despite all their efforts, however, they received a frustrating lack of support from the police, saying it was “incomprehensible” that not a single arrest has been made relating to any of the cases they’d referred to the SAPS in the past six years.
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