Author: Mail & Guardian

When plans to hike taxes drove Kenya’s young people to revolt against the political establishment in June, they turned to technology to organise themselves.  They built custom GPTs — artificial intelligence programs — to educate each other about the proposals, gathered in X Spaces to plan protests, and even had TikTok influencers doing political education. […]

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)  leader Julius Malema has reassigned the party responsibilities previously held by his former deputy Floyd Shivambu to secretary general Marshall Dlamini after Shivambu defected to Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party last week.  Dlamini will serve as the EFF’s chief whip in parliament, while Malema’s office will oversee the governance task unit. […]