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Dr Niall Vine and his team are developing methods to mass produce the probiotics diet supplement that improves the perlemoen’s immune system.
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/ 4 September 2008
High on the Highway Africa agenda will be debates on how to deepen the democratisation role of the media.
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/ 3 September 2008
The DTI has accepted a parliamentary submission by the M&G arguing for greater transparency in the new Companies Bill.
Tebello Nyokong has come a long way — from herding sheep in Lesotho as a young girl to becoming a professor of medicinal chemistry and nanotechnology
As a young learner growing up in Zimbabwe, Dionne Shepherd was fascinated by molecular/physical science and astronomy.
News on mobile: Guy Berger writes about a bid to crack cellphones for future journalism.
Intellectuals, public officials, business and civil-society leaders and political commentators have complained about South African universities’ lack of ”visibility”. For some, universities have not addressed the myriad economic and social-development challenges the country faces.
The saga of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi has won the Mail & Guardian‘s investigations team the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for story of the year, it was announced on Wednesday evening at the seventh annual awards ceremony held at the Wanderers club in Johannesburg.
If laughter is fine medicine, then it’s appropriate that South Africa’s lead dispenser — the ace cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro — can now be called ”Doctor”. For his world-class cartoons that both hurt and heal, the journalist received an honorary doctorate at Rhodes University last week.
Remember the days when, as inaugural transport minister, Mac Maharaj insisted that he would continue to drive his beat-up old Jetta? It struck a chord, for it spoke of a government that would live comfortably yet simply. Those days died quickly as the new democrats dusted off old protocol books designed for a venal order.
Consumer rights champion Isabel Jones died in the early hours of Mach 11, said her son Adam Jones. Described at one time as all that stood between South Africans and high prices, Jones underwent heart surgery in November and made a full recovery, her son said.
Consumer rights champion Isabel Jones has died, one of her agents confirmed on Tuesday. Jones, who underwent open heart surgery in December, was not feeling well on Friday and was admitted to hospital, said Stuart Lee, chief executive of Famous Faces Management, the agent for aspects of Jones’s commercial career. Jones died on Tuesday morning, said Lee.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela personally congratulated 23 students who were awarded the Mandela Rhodes scholarship for 2008 on Tuesday in Johannesburg. The 89-year-old Mandela slowly entered the room of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation where the students were anxiously awaiting the moment they would meet him.
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/ 13 February 2008
A 29-year-old man is accused of breaking into a Rhodes University residence and raping a woman — while he was out on bail on a previous rape charge. The man appeared in the Grahamstown High Court on Tuesday.
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The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) has expressed ”dismay” at the African National Congress’s (ANC) succession debate focusing on the personalities of President Thabo Mbeki and ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma. ”The PSAM believes that debate should be refocused on the protection of civil and political rights,” it said.
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/ 21 November 2007
Ian Smith, who defied the world in 1965 when he led 270Â 000 white Rhodesians in a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain rather than accept moves to black-majority rule, has died in South Africa aged 88. State-owned radio ZBC, reporting his death, said ”Smith will be remembered for his racism and for the deaths of many Zimbabweans.”
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/ 20 November 2007
Ben Mafani never met Piet Koornhof, who died this week at the age of 82. But he hopes to come face to face with Koornhof in the life hereafter, because he has a question for the apartheid-era Cabinet minister. Mafani wants to know why he, his family, and thousands of other people were forcibly removed from ”white” South Africa three decades ago.
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/ 2 November 2007
Margaret Legum, best known for her call to sanction apartheid South Africa, died in Cape Town at the age of 74 on Thursday. She died of complications arising from a cancer-related operation. She leaves behind two sisters, three daughters, five granddaughters and one grandson.
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/ 25 October 2007
South African theatre icon Patrick Mynhardt, famous for portraying the Herman Charles Bosman character Oom Schalk Lourens on stage, has died at the age of 75, it was announced on Thursday. Mynhardt passed away of natural causes in London where he was performing his biographical one-man show Boy from Bethulie.
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/ 20 October 2007
Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya was accused of lying about his ”imminent arrest” by South African Broadcasting Corporation group chief executive Dali Mpofu and writer Ronald Suresh Roberts at a conference in Sandton on Friday.
So-called surprise visits by businessman Tokyo Sexwale to branches of the South African Students’ Congress (Sasco) have raised the ire of the student body. ”We demand a public apology from Mr Sexwale for bringing the name of our organisation into disrepute,” said Sasco president David Maimela on Wednesday.
A new exhibition documents the lives of people in polluted environments, writes Niren Tolsi.
Lisa Johnston writes about an artist whose fabric panels are snapshots from her life
Bugs have become the new cadets in the crime war as forensic entomology provides crucial evidence in court.