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.
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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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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Remote medical care gives privacy and no travel is necessary. What’s needed now is better access to technology. Language barriers also need to be broken down
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand