#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: New driver's licences coming
Monitoring software that uses AI found almost 20,000 abusive social media posts, copper cables belonging to the eThekwini municipality have been found, and much more...
Good morning, KZN.
Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this Tuesday morning...
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A massive search and rescue operation is underway in the mid-Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive into the Titanic's wreck on Sunday. It’s 3.8km deep and 600km from Canada.
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Producer Themba Ndaba is claiming copyright ownership of the 'Shaka Ilembe' series. He says he conceived an idea for a King Shaka Zulu movie back in 2012, but could not secure funding.
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Archaeologists have found an octagonal sword dating back more than 3,000 years ago at a burial site in the state of Bavaria, southern Germany.
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The Department of Transport says that South Africa’s new driver's licences will be launched before the end of the current financial year (sometime before the end of March 2024).
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More than R8-million worth of copper cables belonging to the eThekwini municipality, Transnet, Telkom, and Prasa have been found buried in a scrap dealer's yard in KwaMakhutha.
Bonus:
Monitoring software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) found almost 20,000 abusive social media posts were aimed at players, officials, and coaches during the Qatar World Cup.
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