The Vaal community is scrambling to halt the spread of water lettuce, an invasive alien species threatening the Vaal River. A clear solution exists, but a new regulation threatens to slow the process.
By Julia Evans
How the July 2021 unrest reports fail South Africans. Plus, the great trekbokke mystery; and water lettuce threaten the Vaal — all in this week’s wrap.
The July 2021 unrest was one of the most traumatic episodes in post-apartheid South Africa. New reports take us almost no closer to understanding what happened and why.
By Rebecca Davis
The July 2021 unrest was one of the most traumatic episodes in post-apartheid South Africa. New reports take us almost no closer to understanding what happened and why.
By Rebecca Davis
Naledi Pandor says it’s now up to the international community to take action on the International Court of Justice order against Israel.
By Peter Fabricius
Your average ‘Gen Z-er’ has few memories of a politically functional South Africa — if any. It’s no wonder that this demographic has little taste for party politics and elections.
By Tamsin Metelerkamp
The Vaal community is scrambling to halt the spread of water lettuce, an invasive alien species threatening the Vaal River. A clear solution exists, but a new regulation threatens to slow the process.
By Julia Evans
The Vaal community is scrambling to halt the spread of water lettuce, an invasive alien species threatening the Vaal River. A clear solution exists, but a new regulation threatens to slow the process.
By Julia Evans
Echoing the television series, ‘Law and Order’, we offer our readers a fantasy born out of the news, one that might well be close to the truth in the lead-up to the US election.
By J Brooks Spector
Despite assurances from the university that the initiation problem is being addressed, it has not managed to root out the toxic and exclusionary culture in some residences, with some white residents and alumni actively resisting efforts to do so.
By Pierre de Vos
If you had been alive on the Karoo veld back in the 1800s, you may have witnessed elegant springbok turned into trekbokken, the mammalian equivalent of locusts.
By Julienne Du Toit
If you had been alive on the Karoo veld back in the 1800s, you may have witnessed elegant springbok turned into trekbokken, the mammalian equivalent of locusts.
By Julienne Du Toit
New tackle guidelines to be trialled in South African amateur rugby, will place a much bigger onus on ball carriers to ensure player safety.
By Craig Ray
The South African Predator Association is gearing up for a legal showdown against government plans to close a contentious industry that farms with captive lions and their parts.
By Tiara Walters
Twenty years ago the country had only 40 astrophysicists, all white. Now programmes to foster African talent have paid off, with hundreds qualified.
By Patricia Ann Whitelock, Daniel Cunnama and Rosalind Skelton
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