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Can you get reinfected with Covid-19? SA has ‘4 000 potential reinfections’

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Although the new strain 501Y.V2 of the virus has spread 50% more rapidly, current evidence shows that it is not more severe than the one experienced in the first wave

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Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

Friday Theresa Mallinson - 12 Nov 2020

As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

South Africa’s southern right whale population is falling, research finds

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Researcher Els Vermeulen has a whale of a time conducting an annual aerial survey of the country’s southern right whales. But decreasing numbers reveal the depressing nature of this work

Testing sewage: The Covid canary in our wastewater

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Local scientists are using wastewater-based epidemiology to trace the SARS-CoV-2 virus in South Africa’s sewage system, which could act as an early warning system for outbreaks of Covid-19, as well as other diseases

Investing in innovation will reduce unemployment and poverty

Education Thokozani Majozi & Tshilidzi Marwala - 30 Aug 2020

South African inventions that have changed the world are all underpinned by research, development and significant financial backing — to lose this would be tragic

Excess deaths increase but we are ‘still in the dark’

Coronavirus M&G Data Desk - 23 Jul 2020

The data shows 17 000 more people have died than usual since May, but only 6 000 deaths have officially been attributed to Covid-19

Nattrass’s article should be retracted rather than debated

Education Keymanthri Moodley - 19 Jun 2020

The relationship between science and ethics is inextricable and a study that does not consider the latter in its design cannot be supported

Perverse incentives for universities are wasting the skills and work of postdoctoral fellows

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Decision-makers appear to be outsourcing core work to an insecure academic workforce who don’t necessarily receive recognition or permanent employment

Tawana Kupe: It takes a continent to raise the Africa we want

Coronavirus Tawana Kupe - 24 May 2020

Collaborating with other universities will assist in dealing with diseases and other social issues that know no borders

What universities are doing in the fight against Covid-19

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While teaching students during lockdown, institutions of higher learning are also using their expertise to make masks, develop vaccines and research labour abuses

Chair boosters fuel SA’s research engine

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Is the government's research chairs initiative helping to meet SA's demand for highly skilled graduates?

HIV research on monkeys makes breakthrough

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A single shot of antiretroviral drugs has protected lab monkeys from HIV for weeks, according to two US trials.

Beauty in ‘eh?’ of beholder

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New research shows that attractive people are easy on the eye while looking at them, but you probably won't remember them once you look away.

Plans to snub a silent killer

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Can you get reinfected with Covid-19? SA has ‘4 000 potential reinfections’

Extract from ‘The Journey’: Responses to the archive

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

South Africa’s southern right whale population is falling, research finds

Testing sewage: The Covid canary in our wastewater

Investing in innovation will reduce unemployment and poverty

Excess deaths increase but we are ‘still in the dark’

Nattrass’s article should be retracted rather than debated

Perverse incentives for universities are wasting the skills and work of postdoctoral fellows

Tawana Kupe: It takes a continent to raise the Africa we want

What universities are doing in the fight against Covid-19

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HIV research on monkeys makes breakthrough

Beauty in ‘eh?’ of beholder

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