Scientists collect water and sediment samples to study how the oceans and climate are changing.
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Oceanographic systems vary over years, decades and centuries.
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Lion protection fees paid by tourists could pave the way for a responsible transition away from trophy hunting without affecting the communities that rely on hunting revenue.
Combining content learning and language skills is a boon for academic performance.
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There’s more to effective teaching than just implementing school policies.
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In South Africa men are 70% more likely to die from TB than women. Tackling social factors such as smoking and high alcohol consumption could save more lives.
A digital composite of a meteor shower speeding towards Earth.
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Meteorites are usually discovered by someone who notices an unusual rock while out walking.
Informal traders in Cape Town are heavily dependent on foreign tourists.
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Cape Town’s informal traders need support, but they need to be consulted first.
An artist’s impression of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, the largest of its kind in the world.
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Canada’s partnership in the world’s largest radio telescope, located in South Africa and Australia, creates new opportunities for research, but the benefits go beyond astronomy.
Tidal surges can cause enormous damage.
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Local communities need to be warned more clearly and effectively if there is a threat of a storm surge and of coastal flooding.
Alexandra township is situated next to the wealthy suburb of Sandton, laying bare post-apartheid South Africa’s vast gulf between wealth and poverty.
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Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.
White sharks are migrating to survive. Morne Hardenberg.
South Africa’s white shark population is not in decline but migrating to survive.
What was once a farm dam in South Africa is now parched earth.
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Africa’s future looks catastrophic if we don’t act now on climate change.
An unidentified maize farmer inspects maize which has been hung out to dry in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
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The South African government must act on the ineffective and politics-ridden system of land leases and ensure that beneficiaries are getting secure land rights.
BRICS leaders announce the outcomes of the XV BRICS Summit, at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 24 August 2023.
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Indonesia has taken a good decision by not joining BRICS, but still needs to be aware that this bloc remains important for the country, and ASEAN.
South African traditional healer Gogo Kamo uses technology to treat her patients remotely.
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Using centuries of indigenous knowledge along with modern healthcare could benefit more people.
Russian president Vladimir Putin speaking via video link at the 2023 Brics summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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As the Brics alliance signs up new members, Russia continues to win over more allies.
Different strategies are required to save coastlines.
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Coastlines need to be recognised as dynamic, shifting environments rather than as environments that need to be controlled and managed.
A refugee child in South Africa plays on a road side after attacks on foreigners in 2008.
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The South African print often uses language that portrays foreigners in a bad light, and dehumanises them.
In her artwork for the project, Christina Leputla depicted victims of domestic violence fleeing their attacker.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
China’s President Xi Jinping at the 2018 Business Forum meeting during the 10th BRICS summit in South Africa.
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The African continent is an obvious contender for courting by major powers.
BRICS foreign ministers meet in Cape Town, South Africa, in June 2023.
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BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – compose 41% of the world population and almost a third of global GDP.