Two days ago, National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has agreed to Eskom increasing its tariff by over 15% for the 2021/22 financial year. This is a huge blow to South Africans who are already reeling from the effects of the Covid-19 lockdowns as well as Eskom’s own ongoing load-shedding.

Thandile Nododile, a very enterprising young man, who was my student in Computer Architecture last year, has been working on a web app for automatic creation of CVs and cover letters for more than two years. The young man has finally released his app and it can be accessed at C-vity.

Just like many countries in the world, South Africa has been experiencing a deadly second wave of Covid-19, which, according to experts, has been fuelled by a new strain of the virus. This strain is more contagious and has led to more deaths.

At the end of last year, I read a very interesting article online about Alpha Tau Medical’s revolutionary cancer therapy, that dissolves cancerous tumors in days. At that time, Alpha Tau had just successfully completed its first-in-human clinical trial of Alpha DaRT with squamous cell carcinoma patients from Italy and Israel.

This morning I read an article, in which Francis Munthali, one of my senior friends from our high school days, explains how he almost died of Covid-19. This Covid-19 is very dangerous! Francis is now out of danger and has made a public call for people to help Mzuzu Central Hospital with financial contributions in order to acquire oxygen as a matter of urgency.

With the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence already gone, the only major conference in Computational Intelligence remaining on this year’s calendar is the 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI).

The Malawi social media has been awash with debates on fake PhDs for the past week or so. Some highly inquisitive fellows have been taking some time off their work to check and verify the authenticity of some PhD degrees held by some prominent people in our country.

On 20 April, 2020, Andry Rajoelina, Madagascar’s President launched Covid Organics (CVO), a herbal medicine that, he believes, can prevent and cure patients suffering from COVID-19.

Yesterday, I wrote about the Alpha DaRT technology that dissolves solid tumors in a number of days. Alpha DaRT was developed at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Today, I have stumbled on another exciting anti-cancer development from the same Tel Aviv University.

Alpha Tau Medical Ltd, an Israeli biotech company, conducts R&D and commercialisation of the Alpha DaRT™ (Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy), a novel cancer treatment that destroys aggressive tumors while sparing healthy tissue. The Alpha DaRT technology was initially developed in 2003 by Tel Aviv University researchers Prof. Itzhak Kelson and Prof. Yona Keisari.