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South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs

Apr 30, 2024

Researchers in the education sphere benefit from collaboration and idea-sharing. cgstock/Shutterstock Mpho-Entle Puleng Modise, University of South Africa and Maureen Robinson, Stellenbosch University South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research. Some of the country’s researchers have made major contributions in areas like the biomedical

Deepfakes in South Africa: protecting your image online is the key to fighting them

Feb 27, 2024

ph. Deepfakes pose serious dangers. Arkadiusz Warguła/iStock Layckan Van Gensen, Stellenbosch University Leanne Manas is a familiar face on South African televisions. Towards the end of 2023 the morning news presenter’s face showed up somewhere else: in bogus news stories and fake advertisements in which “she” appeared to promote various products or get-rich-quick

Tourists are returning to South Africa – but the sector will need to go green to deal with the country’s electricity crisis

Nov 14, 2023

If South Africa wants to keep its tourism wheels turning, reliable, renewable energy is key. Xinhua News Agency Gijsbert Hoogendoorn, University of Johannesburg; Irma Booyens, University of Strathclyde , and Kristy Langerman, University of Johannesburg For the past 16 years South Africans have dreaded rolling power cuts euphemistically dubbed “loadshedding”. These are caused

South Africa’s surveillance law is changing but citizens’ privacy is still at risk

Oct 9, 2023

Jane Duncan, University of Glasgow In a ringing judgment for the right to privacy, the South African Constitutional Court declared sections of the country’s main communication surveillance law unconstitutional in February 2021. The court gave parliament three years to pass a new law remedying the areas of unconstitutionality. The February 2024 deadline for

South Africa begins own production of groundbreaking HIV-prevention drug to make it affordable within the continent

Jun 22, 2023

South Africa will soon begin production of the groundbreaking HIV-prevention drug, long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA), finally making the life-saving treatment affordable within the African continent. The treatment, which must be injected every two months, almost entirely eliminates the risk of becoming infected by HIV through sex. This development is expected to help millions of

South Africa begins own production of groundbreaking HIV-prevention drug to make it affordable within the continent

May 30, 2023

South Africa will soon begin production of the groundbreaking HIV-prevention drug, long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA), finally making the life-saving treatment affordable within the African continent. The treatment, which must be injected every two months, almost entirely eliminates the risk of becoming infected by HIV through sex. This development is expected to help millions of

‘It’s a moral disgrace’: Cape Town mayor spits fire as Russian seismic ship sails to Antarctica

Feb 16, 2023

A non-profit coalition of about 30 organisations has called on South African authorities to refuse re-entry to the Kremlin’s Antarctic mineral ‘explorer’ — a regular visitor in Table Bay. Meanwhile, Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, who was in Antarctica on Monday, has told Our Burning Planet that Russian state vessels should not berth

South Africa to spend $712 million on mass vaccination drive

Mar 5, 2021

South Africa plans to spend $712 million to vaccinate some 67% of its 60 million people to control the country’s COVID-19 battle and get the economy to rebound from its decline of 7.2% last year. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said the vaccination drive will help South Africa’s economy, the most developed in sub-Saharan

South Africans must be healthier for universal healthcare to succeed

Jul 18, 2020

Achieving a healthy population isn’t easy for any country – rich or poor. One of the approaches that’s gained traction over the past two decades is preventative care through health promotion. Simply put, health promotion means keeping people healthy. This is seen as particularly useful in developing countries, where levels of preventable noncommunicable

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