Hudaa Ahmed

August 4, 2026 While South Africa continues to grapple with high unemployment, the United States is facing the opposite problem in one critical industry—it doesn’t have enough skilled workers to keep its electricity grid running. That shortage is creating opportunities for experienced South African electrical line workers, with some positions offering the equivalent of more

August 3, 2026 Artificial intelligence systems being tested by two of the world’s leading AI companies escaped supposedly controlled environments and broke into the computer systems of real organisations. OpenAI’s models reached the public internet and spent more than four days attacking infrastructure belonging to Hugging Face, a major platform for hosting AI models and

July 22, 2026 South African motorists could eventually renew their driving licence cards every eight years instead of every five—meaning fewer fees, fewer eye tests and fewer mornings sacrificed to a licensing-centre queue. There is, however, one important catch: the eight-year period is not yet in effect. The proposal is progressing through government’s policy-development process,

July 17, 2026 An unfamiliar number appears on your phone. Ignore it, and you could miss a call from an employer, doctor, school or delivery driver. Answer it, and you may be rewarded with another unwanted insurance pitch, cellphone offer or funeral policy. That uncertainty is the real cost of South Africa’s spam-call crisis. It

July 16, 2026 The next cost-of-living shock may not arrive through a government announcement, an Eskom tariff increase or another painful adjustment at the fuel pumps. It may arrive quietly—when the bag of maize meal costs more, the tray of chicken becomes smaller and another item disappears from the family trolley. A rapidly strengthening El

July 14, 2026 The United States is bombing Iran again. The ceasefire is collapsing, commercial vessels are being attacked and missiles are crossing the airspace of neighbouring countries. Yet the most consequential development may not be another explosion in the Strait of Hormuz. It may be a letter sent to Congress. President Donald Trump has

July 13, 2026 The Gulf is no longer watching the war from a safe distance. It is inside it. Missiles and drones have crossed borders, air-raid sirens have sounded over major cities, commercial vessels have come under fire and the Strait of Hormuz has once again become the centre of a dangerous struggle for control.