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Hello everyone, it has been a long time since I have posted here, for which I must express my regret. Blame it on forum fatigue and the distraction of starting a new life in a foreign land - but MyGaming was never far from my thoughts and news feeds. It is of course a sad time in this forum's...

I found this post quite illuminating on the new graphics APIs that are coming to the fore - seems like a long over due shakeup is incoming. Here's a snippet: http://www.gamedev.net/topic/666419-what-are-your-opinions-on-dx12vulkanmantle/#entry5215019

In other news: Gavin Mannion on Twitter: "Anyone out there interested in owning the very best gaming website in the world? Please get in touch, unfortunately I'm serious" https://twitter.com/lazygamers/status/541884031869403136

President Jacob Zuma would like Jesus to return to earth to cleanse everybody's sins, Beeld reported on Monday. A visibly tired Zuma shared his spiritual side at a meeting with ambassadors and commissioners in Pretoria on Sunday -- a meeting for which he cut short his Russian trip by a day. He...

South Africa is in crisis and lacks leadership, Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Friday night. "We have no leadership. We are a leaderless country," he told about 100 of the EFF's members, most of them women, in Boksburg, on the East Rand, at an event to celebrate women's...

Opposition parties on Friday refused to elect the chair of the new parliamentary committee on the Nkandla controversy until its mandate had been clarified to ensure the public protector's report is not sidelined. Democratic Alliance MP James Selfe said the opposition agreed beforehand to argue...

The company that reportedly failed South African troops in Bangui, in the Central African Republic last year, has since secured 91 tenders worth R209 million, the Mail&Guardian reported on Friday. A tender list compiled for its investigative unit amaBhungane shows that between last April and...

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Reverend Mpho Tutu on Thursday appealed for Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to be left alone to do her work. "Maligning the public protector besmirches not only the ruling party, but the entire country. We are proud that South Africa has an Office of the...

All 25 EFF MPs on Thursday received formal letters from Speaker Baleka Mbete asking them to motivate why the party should not be suspended from Parliament for disrupting a sitting. "We received the letters today and we have to respond by tomorrow," said Economic Freedom Fighters MP Mbuyiseni...

President Jacob Zuma and his "network" have hijacked the judiciary, DA leader Helen Zille said after the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the release of the so-called Zuma "spy tapes" on Thursday. "We are all equal before the law. None of us is above the law," she told a crowd outside the court...

The Supreme Court of Appeal on Thursday dismissed President Jacob Zuma's application to prevent the release of the so-called "Spy Tapes". Within five days, the National Prosecuting Authority must comply with the previous court order, in an application brought by the Democratic Alliance, to...

The EFF maintains that the ANC organised "hooligans" to attack its MPs outside Parliament despite the ANC chief whip denying this, the party said on Wednesday. "When the EFF released a statement this morning, the ANC, through its Chief Whip's Office, said the EFF is 'imagining things, and this...

The MyCiTi bus service is Cape Town's biggest black economic empowerment (BEE) project, mayor Patricia de Lille said on Wednesday. "To date, the MyCiTi project has seen an overall investment of R6.5 billion by the city as part of our commitment to infrastructure-led growth," she said in a...

The dispute between the SABC, production company MMSV and the fired Generation soapie actors, is being handled in an apartheid manner, renowned actor and playwright John Kani said on Tuesday. "It carries the residue of an apartheid-style master, servant relationship," Kani said in Johannesburg...

President Jacob Zuma's nephew Khulubuse Zuma has denied blame for the collapse of Aurora's Pamodzi mines, The Star reported on Tuesday. "My role as the director of Aurora was that of a non-executive chairperson. I was therefore not responsible for the day-to-day management and running affairs...