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| Dec 3, 2025 | South Africa: Expensive Data and Poor Internet Access - South Africa Fails to Measure Up Against Brazil | Emerging middle-power countries like South Africa, India and Brazil face growing inequalities. At the same time, everyday lives are becoming more and more digital - from paying bills and reading news to contacting companies and services. Wa... |
| Sep 17, 2025 | South Africa: One in Three South Africans Have Never Heard of AI - What This Means for Policy | Artificial intelligence or AI uses computers to perform tasks that would normally have needed human intelligence. Today AI is being put to use in many aspects of everyday life, like virtual banking assistants, health chatbots, self-driving ... |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Africa's Innovations Are Overlooked Because Global Measures Don't Fit - What Needs to Change | African governments and development agencies have embraced science, technology and innovation as levers for development over the past two decades. Science, technology and innovation boost productivity, cut transaction costs, open new busine... |
| May 23, 2025 | South Africa's Innovation Landscape: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities | In the heart of South Africa, a storm brews. The recent withdrawal of U.S. funding from key research and development programs has sent ripples through the nation’s scientific community. In response, the government has formed a Working Group... |
| May 20, 2025 | South Africa: Working Group to Assess Impact of U.S. Fund Withdrawal | Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Professor Blade Nzimande has announced the 12 members of the Working Group on Science, Technology, and Innovation Funding (STI-WG).
The aim of the working group is to advise the Minister on the i... |
| Apr 16, 2024 | E-bikes combatting youth unemployment in South Africa | E-bikes tackling youth unemployment in South Africa. Image: Flickr
Green Riders is transforming the delivery industry and addressing youth unemployment.
Green Riders are not just empowering young people but also advocating for improved infr... |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Two thirds of South Africans spend TOO much time sedentary | Worrying statistics show how much time average South Africans spend being sedentary. Picture: File.
The latest statistics have found that South Africans are way too sedentary to be healthy. People who work an office job in South Africa are ... |
| Jan 12, 2023 | Climate Change is not seen as a main problem by South Africans | A protester holding up a sign.
Image via Adobe Stock
Climate change is a major threat to food production, and is displacing people and increasing the risks to health globally. Addressing climate change requires vast resources, including fin... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | From e-Cigarettes To Hookah Pipes, South Africa Aims To Tighten Tobacco Laws | It’s estimated that tobacco use kills half of it’s consumers. Alexander Joe/AFP via Getty Images |
| Jul 28, 2022 | JSE intros gamification as a financial literacy tool | The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has introduced its virtual trading game (VTG), in an effort to promote financial literacy in SA.
This, as the country continues to face the challenge of a low financial literacy rate and a poor savings ... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Setting up an African drug discovery ecosystem: what will it take? | Setting up an African drug discovery ecosystem: what will it take? Image: Adobe stock
Africa has great potential for drug discovery. The continent has natural resources, indigenous knowledge and human capacity. And it has the need: it bears... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | How the COVID pandemic cost South African learners. | How the COVID pandemic cost South African learners. Image: Adobe stock
When a state of disaster was declared in South Africa in 2020 in response to the COVID pandemic, a hard lockdown was instituted and schools were shut. This was followed ... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | Malnutrition: South Africa’s food problems and consequences. | Malnutrition: South Africa’s food problems and consequences. Image: Adobe stock
One in ten South Africans go hungry every day. As a result malnutrition levels are high. Malnutrition has three simultaneous dimensions: undernourishment, micro... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | What Lies Behind Social Unrest In South Africa, And What Might Be Done About It | Looters grab items from a vandalised mall in South Africa. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images
South Africa has among the highest recorded levels of social protest of any country in the world. The reasons behind this are more comple... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | What Lies Behind Social Unrest In South Africa, And What Might Be Done About It | Looters grab items from a vandalised mall in South Africa. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Reluctant To Be Vaccinated For COVID-19? Here Are Six Myths You Can Put To Rest | wp_booster error:
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| Jul 15, 2021 | Unrest Is Being Used To Subvert South Africa’s Democracy: Giving In Is Not An Option | wp_booster error:
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| Jun 11, 2021 | ICT Tenders: Government looks to digital economy | Government procurement officers are in fine spirits, resulting in a plethora of opportunities to consider and respond to this week.
The software sector scores a whopping 70 requests, followed by an equally robust 64 advertisements for the s... |
| May 13, 2020 | COVID-19 Highlights South Africa’s Need for Local Level Social Data | wp_booster error:
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| May 8, 2020 | Impact of School Closures on Education Outcomes in South Africa | wp_booster error:
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| May 8, 2020 | Impact of School Closures on Education Outcomes in South Africa | wp_booster error:
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| Jul 17, 2019 | South Africans Upbeat about New Technologies, but Worried about Jobs | wp_booster error:
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| Aug 24, 2018 | Here’s what to expect at the 2018 SA Innovation Summit | The SA Innovation Summit is set to take place between 12 and 14 September in Cape Town under theme Africa, our time has come!
The summit will bring together corporates, government, academia, researchers, and entrepreneurs to unpack the big... |
| Aug 24, 2018 | Here’s what to expect at the 2018 SA Innovation Summit | The SA Innovation Summit is set to take place between 12 and 14 September in Cape Town under theme Africa, our time has come!
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| Apr 9, 2017 | South Africans are Learning that they’re not that Exceptional After all | wp_booster error:
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| Feb 20, 2017 | How “design thinking” can prepare graduates for the real working world | At first glance, it looks as though the group of young adults is building Lego. But these are actually students at the University of Cape Town’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking, and they’re using the colourful blocks to design a... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | How Marketers Target Poor Illiterate People With Unhealthy Food Ads | wp_booster error:
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| May 12, 2016 | It’s time to bust the myth that Africa doesn’t produce scientific innovators | |
| Jan 12, 2016 | Technology is no longer a luxury for universities – it’s a necessity | |