Communities claiming a large slice of the northern Kruger National Park (KNP) want full title to their land without any developmental restrictions. The land would remain part of the world-renowned wildlife reserve, says the Limpopo Land Claims Commission. Negotiations over this proposed settlement of the second-largest land claim in the Kruger could set a precedent for claims by communities dispossessed during apartheid.

ANC MPs on Thursday rallied around embattled Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to protect her from the ”unfair treatment” that she has received at the hands of opposition parties and her other detractors. A motion, tabled in Parliament on Thursday afternoon, was shot down by the ANC because it was bent on “damaging her integrity and injuring her dignity”.

South African and international researchers are stripping the luxuries and costs from First World products to build independently powered technology that could save millions of lives around the globe. A wind-up foetal heart rate monitor is heading towards an initial production run.