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Kelly Chibale: chemistry his calling in life
Kelly Chibale didn’t have the easiest start to his academic career.
27 Jun 2016
Meet 3-million-year-old Lucy – she'll tell you a lot about modern African heritage
When it comes to valuable African fossils, much is at stake. They often unearth disputed ways of debating archaeology as a science of ‘discovery’.
22 Jun 2016
Higher education must change students’ agency in the world
“Higher education must change the person and it must change their capacity to act...
14 Jun 2016
Decolonising the curriculum: it's time for a strategy
There is a risk that because of fatigue, frustration and silencing the important moment created by South Africa's student movements will pass by with no proper, long-term structural change.
13 Jun 2016
How the antics of cookie-cutter sharks sharpen our knowledge of migratory whales
Examining the habits of cookie-cutter sharks – which sink their teeth into whales and other large marine animals, making crater-like wounds...
13 Jun 2016
Gang violence exposes truth about lost generation
‘Beautiful’ Cape Town is also one of the world's deadliest cities, writes Kevin Ritchie.
07 Jun 2016
Google Images 'as good as fieldwork' for studying animal colour
Studying photographs of animals posted online by the general public has proven...
07 Jun 2016
'Perfect Storm' of kids at risk: Why a third of SA’s children are sexually abused
One in three young South Africans are sexually abused in some way...
07 Jun 2016
South Africa marks the end of a remarkable judicial career
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 led to a rash of constitution-making in central and eastern Europe...
06 Jun 2016
Cancer care meets big data: SA’s latest treatment breakthrough
Two South African chemists have made a breakthrough in cancer research that paves the way for early diagnosis...
06 Jun 2016
BRICS needs to mature before it can challenge current world order
The rise of non-Western emerging powers like Brazil, Russia, India and China is a reality that has shaped South Africa’s foreign policy under President Jacob Zuma.
01 Jun 2016
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