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Head coach Jim Harbaugh secured a $1 million playoff bonus on Saturday after the Los Angeles Chargers clinched a wild-card spot with a 40-7 victory over the New England Patriots, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter: It will be their first playoff appearance since 2022, when they lost 31-30 in the wild-card round to the Jacksonville Jaguars, after missing the postseason last year. This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis. For more from Bleacher Report on this topic and from around the sports world, check out our B/R app , homepage and social feeds—including Twitter , Instagram , Facebook and TikTok .
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South Carolina's highways remain some of the deadliest in the nation, despite post-COVID drops in 2023 and 2022, and even the 2023 number of traffic deaths was still up 34% , at 1,028, from a decade earlier. If we hope for real improvement, we need to try new and different things, or at least new and different for us. That's why state lawmakers need to give cities and counties more flexibility to use cameras to help reduce this danger, just as local governments do in most other states. Many already have the technology. North Charleston has installed cameras to capture images of vehicles along its highly traveled roads as a measure to reduce crime, and Beaufort County Council recently approved a $262,291 request from its sheriff to buy and install 26 cameras in high-crime areas. Columbia, Florence and many other jurisdictions have them as well. What they don't have — but should — is the ability to use the cameras to crack down on speeding, running red lights and other driving behavior that endangers us all in a way similar to a criminal on the loose. Behavior that essentially is a criminal on the loose — in a car. Nationally, more than 1,100 people were killed in 2022 by drivers running red lights . Technology won't replace police officers or sheriff's deputies or state troopers who patrol our roads, and the use of cameras to enforce speeding and other traffic laws should be implemented with caution, particularly since camera technology may identify a vehicle but not the driver. Given that, there's room to debate how steep the penalties should be for tickets based solely on license-plate readers, but "nothing" shouldn't be the answer. This is new territory, and the effectiveness of red-light camera programs is still a point of debate. But if South Carolina were to empower its municipalities and counties to begin experimenting with this technology, that would further expand our understanding of how effective it can be. And if it doesn't seem to be effective, the experiment can be ended. Surveys have found strong support for cameras that catch those running red lights — an infraction that puts others at risk. And indeed, one of the biggest values of such cameras might not be ticketing vehicle owners but discouraging drivers from taking the risk in the first place, since many — especially the local ones — will understand they're risking a fine. Half of the states allow communities to use cameras to crack down on running red lights, including Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety . And at least 341 communities have opted to do so since New York led the way in 1992. This is no surprise, as camera technology has gotten better and less expensive. Only six states prohibit both red-light and speeding cameras: Our ban took effect more than a decade ago, when the Legislature passed a law prohibiting direct camera enforcement of traffic laws in response to the town of Ridgeland's use of cameras in 2010 to ticket speeders along Interstate 95. Revisiting this and giving local governments more flexibility to experiment with camera enforcement could save lives. Click here for more opinion content from The Post and Courier.
Nyanga South legislator Supa Mandiwanzira has called on the Zimbabwean government to consider taxing examination fees paid to Cambridge University. He argues that while the institution has profited from Zimbabwean students for decades, it has made no tangible investment in the country’s education sector. Speaking during the 2025 National Budget debate in the National Assembly, Honourable Mandiwanzira suggested that taxing Cambridge University could generate much-needed revenue for Zimbabwe’s education ministries. This, he said, would ease the financial pressure on the Treasury and reduce the need for further budget increases for education. “Since independence in 1980, Zimbabweans have paid examination fees in USD to Cambridge University. However, I have not heard of Cambridge University assisting in building schools or contributing to our education sector,” said Mandiwanzira. He emphasised that the government must explore alternative revenue streams, including taxing funds paid to Cambridge University, to finance education sustainably. Mandiwanzira estimated that Cambridge University has collected billions of dollars in examination fees from Zimbabwean students over the years. Despite this, the university has neither offered scholarships to Zimbabwean students nor invested in the local education system. “I am certain that if we calculate the total amount paid to Cambridge University since 1980, it would amount to billions of USD,” he said. “We need to consider taxing these funds or finding other ways to ensure Cambridge contributes to our education system.” Zimbabwe relied on Cambridge University for national examinations from independence in 1980 until the mid-1990s when the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) was established. However, many students continue to opt for Cambridge exams to enhance their opportunities for international education. The debate comes as Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube proposed allocating ZWG 10.52 billion to the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science, and Technology Development in the 2025 national budget. Mandiwanzira’s proposal highlights a potential revenue source that could support the education sector while reducing dependency on the national budget.