Author: Chris Anu

Deaths and damage as storms hit Mozambique regionpublished at 07:25 GMT 10 January 202207:25 GMT 10 January 2022Jose TembeBBC News, Maputo Five people have been killed and 15 others seriously injured after heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, thunderstorms and lightning left a trail of destruction in Mozambique’s southern Gaza province.The dead are victims of lightning strikes, said Bonifacio Cardoso, the spokesperson of Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in the area.He asked people to take precautionary measures including by staying indoors during thunderstorms.The heavy rains that lasted for 24 hours over the weekend also destroyed 5,000…

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Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Eskom has issued a formal notice of its intention to reduce, interrupt or terminate electricity supply to several bulk supply points serving the City of Johannesburg, after arrear debt owed by the metro and its distributor, City Power, climbed past R5.2-billion. In a media statement on Tuesday evening, the utility said the City of Johannesburg and City Power owed it R5.26-billion in arrears on top of a current account of a further R1.58-billion due on 5 June. Eskom said it had worked with the city for more than two years to help it meet its payment obligations. The…

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InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally, today announced that its electronic health record (EHR) solutions have been certified as Class IIa Medical Devices under Regulation (MDR) certification under Regulation (EU) 2017/745. This approval marks the first fully unified AI-native EHR to achieve MDR Class IIa certification in the European Union. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260519124986/en/ This certification demonstrates that InterSystems AI-native EHR meets stringent EU safety and quality standards. This key milestone has significant implications for how healthcare organizations can responsibly scale AI while building confidence…

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by AKANI CHAUKEJOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – CENTRE for African Journalists (CAJ) News Africa, one of the continent’s leading pan-African news platforms, has announced an exciting opportunity for ambitious, energetic, and results-driven professionals to join its growing Sales and Advertising division.The organisation is seeking self-motivated candidates between the ages of 23 and 35 who are passionate about media, marketing, business growth, stakeholder engagement, and client relations.Successful applicants will form part of a dynamic team responsible for expanding the organisation’s advertising, sponsorship, marketing, and commercial footprint across South Africa and the African continent.The role will involve engaging with corporates, government departments, municipalities,…

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The sheer scale of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on South African internet infrastructure in recent days does not make sense considering the relatively small amounts the attackers are trying to extort. A senior South African network security specialist, who asked for anonymity given the nature of his work, told TechCentral on Tuesday that the ransom of two-and-a-half monero – equating to about R16 000 at the time of writing – pales in comparison to the cost it would have taken to mount the attacks. To sustain the attacks – which peaked at over 600Gbit/s in the case at least two…

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