Stef Terblanche, FW de Klerk Foundation – 8 April 2021 South Africans continue watching with mixed feelings ranging from anxiety to amusement the power struggle for control of the ruling ANC playing out between two factions – one aligned with President Cyril Ramaphosa, the other with former president Jacob Zuma and ANC Secretary-General (SG) Ace […]
Expropriation Bill offers no solutions to land reform
The Bill covers far more than land, it covers homes, pensions, business premises, mining rights, shares, and unit trusts – all of which will fall within the Bill’s definition of ‘property’ – and all of which will be vulnerable to expropriation for ‘nil’ or inadequate compensation. 25 March 2021 South Africa’s land reform problems stem […]
SOUTH AFRICA, Defend our Democracy! Defend our Constitution!
The way in which the people’s democracy is being subverted by this purposeful cartel undermining good governance, eroding accountability and promoting misrule, points to how those who subvert it will govern South Africa should they succeed. THE ASSAULT ON SOUTH AFRICA’S CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY: A CALL TO UNITED ACTION – 18 March 2021 Twenty-five years ago, […]
Coronavirus is evolving but so are our antibodies
Sarah L Caddy, Clinical Research Fellow in Viral Immunology and Veterinary Surgeon, University of Cambridge and Meng Wang, Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellow, University of Cambridge – 17 March 2021 The emergence of “variants of concern” has raised questions about our long-term immunity to the coronavirus. Will the antibodies we make after being infected […]
News, Politics & Opinion
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Finance
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Science & Technology
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Interesting
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How Science is rewriting Nature vs Nurture
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Nature & Animal Chat
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Lifestyle Art
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History and Biographies
An ancient San rock art mural in South Africa reveals new meaning
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