The usual gorgeous writing from a man who serves as the heartbeat for a disappearing city, but in a strange way also the defibrillator giving life to the new.

We are all familiar with the attempts by previously #colonised #nations to get back treasures and #culturally significant objects that were looted by the #colonisers. Read more by Chris Roper here: businesslive.co.za/fm/features/20…

🚨📌🧵 I have been bouncing like a tennis ball. I have a spring on my step, and do you know why ...The Reuters Institute has published my project, my LABOUR of Love. It has been surreal. I have also been overwhelmed by the response from those people who have read this work...

I missed this when it was published a couple of weeks ago. Biting. "The navel-gazing of the Gucci liberation class" currencynews.co.za/the-navel-gazi… via Currency

China has implemented mandatory AI education across all primary and secondary schools, affecting over 200 million students, including 6 years old. We’re always bragging about how young the African continent is. Time to take advantage of that in countries that can.

"Last year, three authors filed a class-action lawsuit in #California alleging that #Anthropic, one of the big four AI labs, trained its #AI model using pirated copies of their books." Read more by Chris Roper here: businesslive.co.za/fm/features/20…

‘Very bad things are happening in South Africa’

Frightening, you say.

PRC influence is surging across sub-Saharan Africa, per #ChinaIndex2024: 📈Nigeria: 4th globally 📈Zimbabwe: 6th 📉South Africa: 10th 📈Gambia: +62 in academia domain 💰 Massive PRC investment in energy, transport, digital infrastructure is driving the shift.

"Humans are just a faith-based species. We’ve always believed false things, why would we expect anything to have changed?" Read 'It’s about more than facts' by Chris Roper, here: businesslive.co.za/fm/features/20…

REVEALED | #JuliusMalema’s R21.6m property portfolio and how he built his fiefdom All in the new, revealing book “Malema: Money. Power. Patronage” in bookstores now news24.com/southafrica/ne…

LIVE | Chris Roper gets real about the use and impact of AI at #DigitalMediaAfrica2025. AI has already taken over some of the newsroom's routine tasks, but for journalists, the threat goes deeper.

The arc of the moral universe…the man known as Soldier X, accused of murdering Agnes Wanjiru has his identity revealed: thetimes.com/article/39b9ac…

Today | CfA's CEO & ICFJ+ co-founder Justin Arenstein joins the 'Navigating the Age of Doubt' opening panel at #iMEdDIJF25. How can journalism cut through the noise, rebuild trust + restore relevance in an era of misinformation and news avoidance? ⏰Sept 25, 6:15 p.m. EET

Why indeed. But also - progress and profits are synonymous sometimes.