HeyJaredAnthony Butler
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ANTHONY BUTLER | What if AI trains using Mbeki’s speeches? (opens the original)
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Amid all the brouhaha about the threat AI may pose to the future of human life, one even more frightening prospect has been overlooked. Rather than killing us, AI may instead subject us in perpetuity to the eternal guidance of large language models trained on the collected speeches and writings of former president Thabo Mbeki. This terrifying spectre has been raised by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation’s release of a new report, “The United States of America and the Future of Afrikaners in South Africa
ANTHONY BUTLER | Rising food prices threaten South Africa’s stability (opens the original)
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Historians and political scientists like to remind us that 18th-century bread riots presaged the French Revolution, rising food costs contributed to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and increases in bread prices helped spark the 2011 Arab Spring. While warnings about oil supply risks and price rises have captured the attention of political leaders, the Middle East war also matters because the region is an important producer of urea, ammonia and sulphur, essential inputs for commercial agricul
ANTHONY BUTLER | Cape Town faces tough questions about inclusive urban development (opens the original)
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The Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront is often presented as one of the world’s most successful urban regeneration projects. Jointly owned since 2011 by Growthpoint Properties and the Public Investment Corporation, the property now boasts 13 hotels, 15 conference venues, and 400 small and medium-sized businesses. It hosts 170,000 cruise passengers from 63 ships, and 25-million visits from locals and tourists this year. The V&A has also attracted sustained criticism over the years. It has been de
ANTHONY BUTLER | Coalition government reshapes ANC’s constitutional stance (opens the original)
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The end of the year will be marked not just by local government elections but also by the midpoint of the government of national unity (GNU). The GNU is approaching an accountability phase, because enough time will soon have passed for voters to make considered judgments about its performance. That makes late 2026 and 2027 a particularly revealing period for coalition stability and positioning ahead of the 2029 national elections. So far, citizens seem to have embraced the idea of coalition gove
ANTHONY BUTLER | Baseload power myth lingers as energy system shifts (opens the original)
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The idea of baseload energy seems destined to live on in South Africa even as the age of baseload power draws to a close. “Baseload” originally referred to the electricity needed as a floor even at the period of lowest demand. It was then used loosely to describe the supply that meets that floor: traditionally, big plants that run continuously at constant output because they’re cheap to run once built and expensive to ramp up or down. In South Africa, this meant coal, with a little bit of nuclea
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