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[ParrotOS @MokoenaDee]

The biggest export South Africa never authorised may be its culture.

Our audit of major AI training datasets identified dozens of South African artists appearing across publicly documented training corpora used to develop the next generation of AI music systems.

As artists, rights holders, and policymakers begin to examine the scale of this practice, it may prove to be one of the most significant data laundering controversies the global music industry has ever faced.

[Koshiek Karan @iamkoshiek]

Africa stays losing!! 💔💔

on average, Super Group (Betway) now generates $6.8m (R113m) in revenue every single day (read that again) 💰💰

the company crushed ANOTHER record breaking quarter with revenue, deposits & bets at all time highs

that's R10bn in revenue & R2.5bn in EBITDA in just three months (with a juicy 25% profit margin)

they also broke 6.5 million monthly active gamblers in March (another record)

44% of net revenue comes from Africa, their single largest region 🎰🎰

[Busisiwe Mavuso @BusiMavuso2]

The latest Blue Drop and Green Drop reports show mixed progress in South Africa’s water sector, with modest improvements in drinking water safety but a concerning decline in wastewater treatment performance, underscoring the need for urgent intervention.

For progress on reforms, read the @BLSA_Official Reform Tracker Quarterly review here https://t.co/sXN2WEGoLw

[Paul Scholes @misterp55]

Worth repeating

[Cape Town, Bru /\/¯¯¯¯¯\/ @CapeTown_Bru]

Really unsure how the increasing of prices for products work but peanut butter was R44 last Friday and today it’s nearly R50.

[Dr Zahid Badroodien @ZahidBadroodien]

🌧️ Cape Town just recorded one of the biggest single-week dam recoveries in years. WCWSS storage now sits at 67.8%, up 18.6 percentage points in a week. Ahead of where we were at this time in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.

What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.

The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.

The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.

PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.

A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

[Premier Alan Winde @alanwinde]

🚨 N1 CLOSED | Avoid all travel through the Cape Winelands in both directions.

Du Toitskloof, Bainskloof, Huguenot Tunnel & Mitchells Pass all closed. Multiple N1 sections closed due to flooding.

Do not travel unless absolutely essential. ⚠️ More info: https://t.co/E6dYn5KJJt

[Maduna kaNokhala @ta_kweila]

Here is my Op-Ed published today by BusinessDay

https://t.co/usE6dhSnIf

[msa @msaw3nkosi]

why are these people working in this weather😭

this is saddening 😢

[Cape Town, Bru /\/¯¯¯¯¯\/ @CapeTown_Bru]

So now schools are asking parents to fetch their kids?

WCED when I catch you.

💢😡💢

[Mbekezeli @MbekezeliMB]

The weather in Cape Town and the winelands today is so awful. Strong winds, torrential rain, and ice cold temperatures.

No child should be at school.

[Jaco Verster @JacoVerster]

@TrafficSA If you are travelling near any of the red dots in the next few days please be very careful. Many rivers experiencing highest levels in 40 years! Get the info you need on Google Flood Hub (enable Extended coverage). https://t.co/hwkxE15xuc

[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

Human Trafficking is real & young women are increasingly falling victim. The syndicates behind these scams dress the offers with all sorts of attractive features. The reality on the other side is "slave like conditions". Please warn others! I do know that law enforcement agencies are attending to this & related activities. @DIRCO_ZA is running an awaress campaign on this.

[2X CAF CL Champion @Tumishi_]

To phrase illegal immigration as an “irregular migration” is deliberately mischaracterising an illegality to downplay its significance for political correctness. There’s no such thing as “irregular migration”, what the prof is doing is just pure intellectually dishonesty.

[SABC News @SABCNews]

WATCH | People living with disabilities say they were shocked after an agricultural project valued at R1.2 million was allegedly destroyed by angry young people from Zingcuka village in Centane, in the Eastern Cape.

[In A Nutshell🥜 @Markosonke1]

🚨 JUST IN 📍 The R80 MILLION mystery surrounding suspended City of Tshwane CFO Gareth Mnisi is sending shockwaves across South Africa.

At just 36 years old, Mnisi is now under intense scrutiny after reports linked him to a luxury lifestyle allegedly far beyond what a public servant’s salary could explain. The guy takes home 124k

Court papers reportedly revealed a fleet of high-end vehicles including multiple Porsches, a Maserati Levante, BMWs, Range Rovers and other assets said to total around R80 million.

Now the questions South Africans are asking:

How does a municipal official accumulate that kind of wealth so quickly?
Who funded it?
Were tenders manipulated?
Who else benefited?

Mnisi is also being linked to allegations involving interference in City of Tshwane security tenders, with WhatsApp messages and testimony reportedly placing him at the centre of a widening procurement scandal.

He has since been suspended and is expected to account before the Madlanga Commission, while Hawks and SARS are reportedly probing the money trail.

This is no longer just about one man. It is about whether municipalities have become playgrounds for luxury lifestyles funded by public money while residents battle potholes, power cuts and collapsing services.
South Africans deserve answers

[Cape {town} Etc @CapeTownEtc]

UCT researcher says secondary poisoning of the apex predator from eating contaminated prey threatens to unbalance the Cape Peninsula ecosystem:
https://t.co/rPHCCvCKjB

[Tina @Tina_Hokwana]

SIU exposes “marketplace” of sham marriages fueling massive immigration fraud in South Africa https://t.co/CZryQ0WWo6

[EWN Reporter @ewnreporter]

Thousands of unemployed youth are moving from factory to factory in Midrand and Tembisa with CVs in hand hoping for work.
The protest remains peaceful, but most businesses have shut their gates.
So far, about 15 have secured jobs. @MongeziKoko