www.bbc.com Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa
Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.
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South Africa @lemmy.world Ｓｈｒｉｋｅ 🐦⬛ @lemmy.world South Africa and China establish record-breaking 12,900 km ultra-secure quantum satellite link.
www.eurekalert.org South Africa and China establish record-breaking 12,900 km ultra-secure quantum satellite linkScientists from South Africa and China have successfully established the world’s longest intercontinental ultra-secure quantum satellite link, spanning 12,900 km. Using the Chinese quantum microsatellite Jinan-1, launched into low Earth orbit, this milestone marks the first-ever quantum satell...
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27222369
This milestone marks the first-ever quantum satellite communication link established in the Southern Hemisphere.
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South Africa @lemmy.world dumnonii @piefed.social 
www.dailymaverick.co.za Why is the IEC exploring e-voting — and will it be implemented in SA?Physical voting in South Africa faces many issues like big ballot papers, long waiting times at polling stations and low voter turnout. In a bid to explore electronic voting’s potential, the IEC hosted a three-day conference to kickstart a national discussion on its feasibility and possible implemen...
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South Africa @lemmy.world AnonomousWolf @lemm.ee Microsoft to invest billions in AI data centres in South Africa
techcentral.co.za Microsoft to invest billions in AI data centres in South Africa - TechCentralThe US software giant will invest R5.4-billion in new data centre infrastructure in South Africa.
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South Africa @lemmy.world dumnonii @piefed.social Trump’s Afrikaner refugees could be in for a long wait — if previous US policies apply
www.dailymaverick.co.za Trump’s Afrikaner refugees could have a long wait if previous US policies applyWhile Afrikaner rights groups Afriforum and Solidarity have rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer for refuge in the US, several Afrikaners are happy to swap their braais for a barbeque and head off to the land of the red, white and blue. But before bags are packed, here’s an explanation of US i...
Looks like it's chaos over there in the US of A:
The order empowers Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to create a plan that will facilitate the resettlement of Afrikaners through the United States Refugee Admissions Program (Usrap) to be submitted to Trump and the Homeland Security Advisor. No plan has been drawn up thus far.
The lack of a plan may or may not have something to do with the fact that on 20 January, the US president signed an executive order suspending Usrap, the exact vehicle that would allow for the settlement of the “Afrikaner refugees” and effectively instituting an indefinite ban of refugees.
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South Africa @lemmy.world AnonomousWolf @lemm.ee When browsing this sub from lemm.ee there's a lot of posts I don't see
When I browse https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] a lot of posts are missing compared to looking at https://lemmy.world/c/southafrica
Why is that?
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South Africa @lemmy.world johsny @lemmy.world 
www.theguardian.com How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South AfricaElon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/22815071
He is not alone. Musk is part of the “PayPal mafia” of libertarian billionaires with roots in South Africa under white rule now hugely influential in the US tech industry and politics.
They include Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder, who was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated. Thiel, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, has been critical of welfare programs and women being permitted to vote as undermining capitalism. A 2021 biography of Thiel, called The Contrarian, alleged that as a student at Stanford he defended apartheid as “economically sound”.
David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora after his family moved to the US when he was young. A fourth member of the mafia, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the a
