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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 21, 2025 | South Africa: Deepfakes and South African Law - Remedies On Paper, Gaps in Practice | Deepfakes are forgeries of people's faces, voices and likeness generated through artificial intelligence (AI). They create a serious digital deception. Deepfakes undermine constitutional rights, reduce trust in media and distort fairness in... |
| Jan 29, 2025 | South African Poetry Has a New Digital Archive - What's Behind the Project | South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country's cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that.
Focused on the poets published by a small but impor... |
| Jul 5, 2024 | Breaking Africa’s Vicious Cycle: Politicians Must End Cash Handouts | The irony of African politics is that those who promise to eradicate corruption are often the ones distributing money to voters, while those who demand corruption-free leadership are frequently the recipients of such payments. This illustra... |
| Jun 23, 2024 | South Africa to dish up more zebra to boost jobs and conservation | The abattoir in Bela Bela, north of Johannesburg, is one of a few dedicated to game meat, an untapped sector authorities say can create jobs and, perhaps counter-intuitively, help preserve wildlife while pleasing the palates of climate – an... |
| Apr 22, 2024 | Bras and back pain: Should South Africa axe the tax? | Are VAT-free bras a possibility in SA? Images by Pexels/Castorly Stock and freepik
Radiographers in the UK are advocating for bras to be exempt from VAT arguing that ill-fitting, low-quality bras could lead to health problems for women such... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Looking for a job? These jobs are in high demand | These jobs are in demand. Image from www.amtec.us.com via flickr
Despite the high unemployment rate in South Africa, there are still jobs that are trending and in high demand.
Shortage in the nursing industry
South Africa is experiencing a ... |
| Mar 25, 2024 | Breather for Mapisa-Nqakula as State promises to not to arrest her for at least a week | Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, right, with former chief of defence Solly Shoke when she was defence minister in 2012. Image: GCIS
There’s still no finality conclusion to Speaker of the National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s urgent applicatio... |
| Jan 30, 2024 | Skinwalker: The full moon story you’ve never heard before | According to the website Moon Giant, the last full moon this year happens on the 28 December.
ALSO READ: What was that dot near the Super Blue Moon?
That just three days after Christmas, and the sky will be lit up by the lunar body until th... |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Africa: Traditional Farming Knowledge Should Be Stored for Future Use - the Technology to Do This Is Available | Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices have played a critical role in development all over the world. For centuries, various disciplines ranging from medicine to biodiversity conservation have drawn on these resources.
On the Africa... |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Gauteng: Planned CIT heist foiled, five suspects apprehended | CIT suspects nabbed before executing the heist. Photo: EMPD/ Facebook
A planned Cash-In-Transit (CIT) heist did not live up to its desired outcome after it was foiled and saw five suspects being arrested.
“Upon arrival, the premises were de... |
| Mar 17, 2023 | Nothing will save Eskom in its present configuration | A month ago, South Africans heard some hard truths about the state of Eskom, from now former CEO André de Ruyter. In an interview broadcast on television, De Ruyter made accusations about the role of criminal gangs as well as politicians in... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | Recyclers almost arrested for dragging what looks like copper | Recyclers in Roodepoort investigated for dragging what looked like copper cables to the community. Photo: BCI Security/ Facebook.
A group of recyclers roaming the streets of Roodepoort with trash bags almost got arrested after they were see... |
| Feb 17, 2023 | Ошибка начинающего руководителя: «я щит для команды!» | С чего зачастую начинает молодой руководитель, впервые получивший в управление команду? Он становится ей щитом! Непоколебимой стеной стоит и прикрывает команду и от злых заказчиков, и от непонятных коллег, чтобы она могла жить в своём уютно... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Power cuts in SA are playing havoc with the country’s water system | Power cuts in South Africa are playing havoc with the country’s water system
Photo: pexels.com
South Africans had to deal with the worst ever series of power cuts in 2022. All in all the country lost a record 205 days of electricity due to ... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Legal sex work in South Africa ‘won’t create new problems’ | The reluctance to take bold action to decriminalise the sector has detrimental effects for sex workers. Decriminalisation would give sex workers access to labour rights and help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Photo: PE... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | Decolonising Education In South Africa – A Reflection On A Learning-Teaching Approach | Opening up spaces for students to talk to each other and to lecturers is a way to entrench education as a public good. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images |
| Sep 14, 2022 | Increasing water stress in South Africa requires urgent informed actions | Increasing water stress in South Africa requires urgent informed actions: Image: Adobe stock
Progress has been made since 2015 on a global scale in terms of increasing access to water of an acceptable quality and to sanitation services. But... |
| Aug 19, 2022 | South Africa’s Foreign Policy: New Paper Sets The Scene, But Falls Short On Specifics | South African foreign minister Naledi Pandor hosts US secretary of state Antony Blinken for a strategic dialogue. Jacoline Schoonees/Dirco |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Africa: Twitter Town Square - What Elon Musk Could Learn From Aristotle | Elon Musk, the world's richest man and founder of Tesla and SpaceX, recently made an offer to buy the social media network Twitter for $44 billion. In a statement Musk declared
Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twit... |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Twitter Town Square: What Elon Musk Could Learn From Aristotle | The School of Athens. A mural by Raphael features Plato in conversation with Aristotle. Pascal Deloche/GettyImages |
| May 23, 2022 | COVID-19: South Africa now integrating Covid into routine care for mothers and babies | South Africa now integrating COVID into routine care for mothers and babies: Image: Adobe Stock
COVID-19 has had a direct impact on maternal mortality.
Two years down the line, South Africa has reached what many believe to be a turning poin... |
| May 14, 2022 | South African copper thieves are screwing up the future of electric vehicles | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
South Africa is by far the world’s largest producer of platinum, a precious metal that is among the rarest on Eart... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | How can bilingual education work in South African schools | How can bilingual education work in South African schools: Image: Adobe stock
From the fourth year of schooling, the majority of South African schools teach all subjects in English only. The devastating learning consequences of this for chi... |
| Oct 6, 2021 | South Africa Needs To Up Its Game When It Comes To Financial Inclusion For Women | A woman running her stall on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West. Soweto, Johannesburg. Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images |
| Oct 6, 2021 | South Africa Needs To Up Its Game When It Comes To Financial Inclusion For Women | A woman running her stall on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West. Soweto, Johannesburg. Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The financial gap between men and women is a global problem. It’s a problem because excluding wome... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Yes, masturbating may boost your sex drive – here’s what the research says | Sex drive may be a ‘use it or lose it’ phenomenon. Roos Koole/Getty Images
It’s unclear whether masturbation leads to an increase or decrease in testosterone levels.
But there is slightly more evidence that more masturbation may be linked t... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Sabinet African Journals: A powerful new platform for a fast-growing collection. | Sabinet is pleased to announce the migration of Sabinet African Journals (www.journals.co.za) to a new powerful technology platform.
With this move to Atypon’s Literatum online publishing and Web site development platform, Sabinet strengthe... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | COVID-19 vaccines | Join a free Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine webinar as experts separate the facts from the fiction.
As South African citizens continue to weather the second wave of COVID-19 and the various restrictions placed on them by government, the a... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | South Africa Needs A National Database Of Addresses: How It Could Be Done | ccurate address data is vital for public services, including health monitoring. TippaPatt/Shutterstock |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Grey’s Hospital is now at the centre of SA’s Covid-19 response – here’s how that happened | Grey’s Hospital is now at the centre of SA’s Covid-19 response. Source Google Maps.
Grey's Hospital in Pietermaritzburg was designated as KwaZulu-Natal's centre to handle Covid-19 months before the first case in SA was detected just 10km aw... |
| Nov 7, 2019 | South Africa Takes Steps to Assure the Quality of its Doctorates | If significant concerns surface after institutional audit, the Council on Higher Education may withdraw accreditation. Shutterstock |
| Nov 7, 2019 | South Africa Takes Steps to Assure the Quality of its Doctorates | If significant concerns surface after institutional audit, the Council on Higher Education may withdraw accreditation. Shutterstock
by Sioux McKenna
Around the world there has been a massive increase in demand for doctoral education. This m... |