February 15
South Africa: Digital Monitoring Is Growing in South Africa's Public Service - Regulation Needs to Catch Up
Government departments across South Africa are increasingly relying on digital tools to evaluate public programmes and monitor performance. This is part of broader public-sector… Read more »
February 12
South Africa: History With a Human Face and Voice - How Museum Theatre Gets Kids to Care About the Past
The facts of history are important, but try telling that to a classroom full of bored youngsters. One way to liven up the subject is to show that real people lived through… Read more »
South Africa: Water in the Dams, but South Africa's Taps Are Dry - Essential Reads On a History of Bad Management
It's become a common refrain in South Africa: there's no drought, dams and reservoirs are full, but the taps are dry. Read more »
February 11
South Africa: Cape Town's Wildflowers Are a World Treasure - Six Insights From a New Checklist
Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain… Read more »
February 10
South Africa: South Africa's Biggest Opposition Party Will Head to Municipal Elections With New Leaders - What Does It All Mean?
Speculation continues about why John Steenhuisen announced that he would not be available for re-election as the federal leader of South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) at the… Read more »
February 09
South Africa: South Africans Are Leaving the Electricity Network - but Are Solar Mini-Grids a Fair Solution?
South Africa's electricity system is changing. After years of blackouts until 2024, the state-owned energy company Eskom is being unbundled into smaller companies, and the sector… Read more »
February 08
Africa: Connecting Home Solar and Electric Vehicle Batteries to the Grid Could Boost South Africa's Clean Energy and Strengthen the Electricity System
South Africa has committed to reaching phasing out human-caused carbon pollution by 2050. To get there, it needs to push as much renewable energy as possible into the national… Read more »
February 05
South Africa: South African Novelist Lauretta Ngcobo Is the Subject of a Tender and Urgent New Film
Lauretta Ngcobo, who passed away in 2015, left a singular and impactful literary legacy in South Africa. Even in a life of exile and resistance to apartheid and white minority rule… Read more »
South Africa: New Rugby Rules for South African Kids Aim to Keep Them Safe - What Does the Research Say?
Children in South Africa are back at school after their summer holidays. My son, aged five, has just started school at Wynberg Boys Junior, a school based in Cape Town's southern… Read more »
February 03
South Africa: Cape Town Project Tests What Hydroponic Farming Can Do in Urban Spaces
Imagine a world where fresh vegetables and herbs sprout in the heart of our cities without the need for sprawling farms. Read more »
South Africa: We Run Writing Workshops At a South African University - What We've Learnt About How Students Are Using AI and How to Help Them
Much is being said about the wonders of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it is the new frontier. And while it provides amazing possibilities in fields like medicine, academics… Read more »
February 02
South Africa: Medicinal Plants Support Men's Health in South Africa - Why This Knowledge Needs Safekeeping
Men's sexual and reproductive health may be awkward to talk about, but there's a need to do so. For example, about one-sixth of all couples worldwide have difficulty conceiving… Read more »
February 01
South Africa: What's Stopping Sunny South Africa's Solar Industry? Court Case Sheds Light On the Wider Problem
A South African solar manufacturer, ARTsolar, is taking the government and several renewable energy developers to court. The case focuses on local content rules for renewable… Read more »
January 30
South Africa: Fossil Hunters Find a New Dinosaur Track Site On South Africa's Coast - the Youngest So Far
Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of… Read more »
January 29
South Africa: Student Well-Being Comes From Care, but Is Caring Enough? Academics Reflect On 3 Stumbling Blocks
Students' well-being in higher education has been a growing concern globally since the coronavirus pandemic, which disrupted learning and lives generally. Read more »
January 28
South Africa: South Africa's Floods Turned Deadly Because Limpopo Wasn't Prepared
Limpopo, in northern South Africa, home to 6.6 million people, several large mines and the Kruger National Park (one of Africa's largest game reserves), experienced unusually… Read more »
January 27
South Africa: South Africa's New Immigration Policy Takes a Digital Direction - Will It Succeed?
South Africa has a new draft white paper on immigration, citizenship and refugees. This, the fourth in three decades, represents a step change from the previous efforts. It is a… Read more »
January 22
South Africa: Colonial Tax Records Hold 3 Lessons for South Africa Today - Economic Historian
In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa's Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen… Read more »
January 21
South Africa: What Should Education Look Like Today? 6 Essential Reads On Learning Together
The United Nations made 24 January the International Day of Education to highlight the role of education in peace and development. In 2026 the theme is "the power of youth in… Read more »
January 19
South Africa: Getting Into University Is Only the First Hurdle for Students From Rural South Africa. Here's What Comes Next
As universities in South Africa prepare to admit a new group of students, thousands of young people from rural parts of the country hope for a life-changing opportunity. Read more »
January 15
South Africa: Student Teachers in South Africa Choose Comfort Over Challenge in Practical Placements - but There's a Hidden Cost
South Africa's schools still carry the imprint of apartheid, where resources, language and geography were deliberately divided according to "race". Many communities today remain… Read more »
January 12
South Africa: High Cholesterol and Insulin Resistance Are Rising Among Young South Africans
In a small mining town in South Africa's Limpopo province, young people are showing worrying signs of diseases that were once thought to affect only older adults. Read more »
January 11
Africa: Nigeria and South Africa Risk Breaking Climate Change Pledges
Just 20 countries produce 80% of the world's oil, gas and coal. Since 2019, researchers have released regular reports analysing how these governments plan to continue drilling and… Read more »
January 08
South Africa: South Africa's Addressing System Is Still Not in Place
"Turn right after the first big tree; my house is the one with the yellow door." In parts of South Africa, where settlements have grown without formal urban planning due to rapid… Read more »
South Africa: Arrow Tips Found in South Africa Are the Oldest Evidence of Poison Use in Hunting
The oldest evidence for the use of arrow poison globally was long thought to come from Egypt, dating to 4,000 years ago. It was a black, toxic residue on bone arrowheads from a… Read more »
