Africa: Tea Research Key to a Growing Industry

Pelly Malebe’s research on helping plants withstand drought is personal as well as scientific. She grew up in South Africa’s drought-prone northern province of Limpopo, where crop failures are frequent.

Pelly Malebe drinking tea with Professor Zeno Apostolides and fellow researcher Nick Mphangwe.

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