Phase three of the Kei Rail Project gets rolling on Thursday with a special launch by the Eastern Cape government at the Kei Bridge between East London and Umtata.
The loss of skills caused by the brain drain is not an acute problem for South Africa’s economy, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Tuesday at the Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (Thrip) awards.
The hunt for the fishing vessel suspected of catching several million pounds worth of endangered Patagonian toothfish took an extraordinary twist yesterday when the Australian customs vessel Southern Supporter pursued it into the Antarctic icefloes, then had to help it navigate out to avoid a full-scale rescue operation.
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew apart a bus in the heart of Jerusalem last night as it carried religious Jews from a visit to the Wailing Wall, killing at least 20 people, including children, wounding more than 100 and inflicting the most serious blow yet to the six-week-old ceasefire.
A huge truck bomb struck at the heart of the international humanitarian effort in Iraq yesterday, destroying part of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and killing at least 20 people including the head of the UN mission.
UN Baghdad headquarters blasted
Nanotechnology. It may sound like something out of <i>Star Trek</i>, but for researchers and postgraduate students from the Inorganic Porous Media Group (IPMG) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) it is an integral part of designing cheap, green and renewable energy.
In the absence of palaeo-cassette recorders the problem of determining when speech began might seem insoluble, but analysis of recent evidence suggests we may have started talking as early as 2,5-million years ago.
In a joint initiative with the French government, the Paris Chamber of Commerce and the National Research Foundation, Technikon Pretoria is paving the way for bigger and better communication networks.
The word is out: nanotechnology, a new field of science and engineering that focuses on the very small, is about to go very, very big…
When was the last time the Earth moved for you? A strange question, perhaps, given that South Africa is not widely recognised as being prone to earthquakes. So is building earthquake-resistant structures a priority in South Africa? You bet it is.