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Court push to unlock global library access for blind readers
Blind SA has turned to the Pretoria High Court to break a delivery deadlock that has kept South Africa’s blind and visually impaired readers locked out of the world’s largest digital libraries for years. The organisation is suing trade and industry minister Parks Tau, arguing that the machinery needed to join the Marrakesh Treaty already exists in law, and that his department’s continued waiting amounts to an unlawful and irrational failure to act.
US Spends Big to Attract Afrikaner Refugees. Few Apply
Only five South Africans were admitted to the United States as refugees in the last fiscal year, out of 16,292 admissions in total, and that number sits at the center of a puzzle US officials are now prepared to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to solve: why so few white Afrikaners have applied to a refugee program built specifically for them.
Africa's Top Brass Meet in Kampala on Non-Combat Delivery
African defence chiefs gathered in Kampala for what organisers describe as the first meeting of its kind dedicated specifically to Military Operations Other Than War at the level of the continent’s top military leadership. The focus was practical: how African armed forces actually deliver on operations outside conventional combat, from peacekeeping and disaster response to emergency operations.
Eswatini says US deportees went home, not to South Africa
The three men deported from the United States have left Eswatini and returned to their home countries of Yemen, Belize and Laos, according to the kingdom’s government, which is pushing back against reports that the group had been quietly moved across the border into South Africa. The men arrived from the US under the bilateral arrangement between Mbabane and Washington DC. The clarification came after claims circulated that the deportees had been secretly released to South Africa.
Is There a Preferred Choice to Parameterize the Stokes Expansion for Surface Gravity Waves?
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Sails, rotors, and smarter routes: Using Wayfinder to maximise wind-assisted propulsion
Since diesel engines became dominant, wind has been treated more often as a source of schedule risk than a source of propulsion. That’s changing. There are now more than 100 vessels on order or operating with wind-assisted propulsion systems. Tightening regulatory pressure (FuelEU, ETS, CII), maturing hardware (rotor sails, wings, and kites), and the growing availability of high-resolution environmental data and route optimization are driving momentum.
South Africa grey list exit hailed
We welcome the decision by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to remove South Africa from the list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, also known as the “grey list”. The FATF announced this decision on Friday, 24 October, at the conclusion of its plenary held from 20 to 24 October 2025. This announcement came 32 months after our country was placed on the grey list in February 2023.
Continuous peak period estimates from discrete surface-wave spectra
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