The biggest reason behind SA’s out-of-control crime, a TV battle with Adriaan Vlok and a Hermanus space weather station’s startling findings.
The biggest contributing factor to our out-of-control crime rate is atrocious policing, mismanaged from the national commissioner down to unit and station level, and riddled with nepotism and corruption. Like the proverbial fish, the rot starts at the ministerial top level.
By Mary de Haas
The biggest contributing factor to our out-of-control crime rate is atrocious policing, mismanaged from the national commissioner down to unit and station level, and riddled with nepotism and corruption. Like the proverbial fish, the rot starts at the ministerial top level.
By Mary de Haas
It is two weeks since the devastating gas tanker explosion in Boksburg on Christmas Eve. To date, the death toll has reached 37. Twelve of those who died were healthcare workers from the Tambo Memorial Hospital. More is now known about who they were.
By Michelle Banda
The death of apartheid police minister Adriaan Vlok reminded me of the fierce, on-air confrontation that precipitated his fall from grace. This might have been the only time a journalist could have a bare-knuckled showdown with a Cabinet minister on the SABC.
By Anton Harber
A Kremlin oil and gas research vessel — exposed by Our Burning Planet for activities that look and smell just like Antarctic prospecting, and may have traumatic impacts on marine life — arrives in Cape Town in 14 days. This, even as SA’s environment minister, Barbara Creecy, hits the ice to inspect ‘zero emissions’ tech.
By Tiara Walters
South Africa is now equipped with a regional Space Weather Centre that can provide space forecasts 24/7 — and a leading local space weather specialist based there says its impact is so significant that it should be included in daily forecasts.
By Elsabé Brits
South Africa is now equipped with a regional Space Weather Centre that can provide space forecasts 24/7 — and a leading local space weather specialist based there says its impact is so significant that it should be included in daily forecasts.
By Elsabé Brits
The festive season is typically an opportune time to review the passing year, and on reflection, there is one thing about 2022 that really stands out: Big-time leadership failure. I mean real major disaster stuff.
By Tim Cohen
There comes a time when certain residents of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation are ready to return to the sea. It’s a farewell and a homecoming.
By Don Pinnock
There comes a time when certain residents of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation are ready to return to the sea. It’s a farewell and a homecoming.
By Don Pinnock
There are more unplanned pregnancies in countries where men hold more power in society, likely because women don’t have a say in how many children they have. The opposite is true when men support their partner’s use of contraception.
By Mohale Moloi and Linda Pretorius
Within its short life, ChatGPT has generated a library of heated controversy, a cesspool of Twitter insults and counter-insults, dire predictions about the end of humanity as we know it and breathless prose about a brave new world.
By Steven Boykey Sidley
Within its short life, ChatGPT has generated a library of heated controversy, a cesspool of Twitter insults and counter-insults, dire predictions about the end of humanity as we know it and breathless prose about a brave new world.
By Steven Boykey Sidley
There are more unplanned pregnancies in countries where men hold more power in society, likely because women don’t have a say in how many children they have. The opposite is true when men support their partner’s use of contraception.
By Mohale Moloi and Linda Pretorius
It’s the marrow edge of the zucchini wedge when your laatlammetjie son goes to college and from Thanksgiving onward it’s non-stop Christmas cheer for a whole bloody month.
By Chris Pretorius
There is growing evidence that animals’ bodies and habits are changing as global temperatures rise. Now Canadian researchers have found that we may have an example of this on our doorstep.
By Rebecca Davis
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