Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
council for scientific and industrial researchlatest news & developments
African Reclaimers Organisation members stand in front of the trucks they use to collect waste from communities and industrial sites.

Reclaimers bemoan loss of livelihoods

About 140 waste pickers, who had spent years recovering recyclables from a landfill site, say they were given just a day’s notice that it would close

Neglecting existing infrastructure generates higher long-term costs.

South Africa must revive its industrial ambitions

Black economic empowerment has been transformative but it needs to be revisited to broaden its pool of beneficiaries

A chain-forming diatom, a common type of phytoplankton, found in the New York Bight area. (NOAA)

Climate models underestimate global phytoplankton decline, study warns

A CSIR study analysing 26 years of satellite data reveals how ocean warming is significantly reducing ocean productivity

The CSIR rejects the claim that the CSIR is a “culprit” for using a deviation process to procure certain goods and services.

Response to the M&G: CSIR is not a procurement culprit

The CSIR was depicted as a culprit for purchasing certain goods and services using the deviation process, but such a process is allowed and the word ‘culprit’ is thus wrong

Drivers in the cabin of a hydrogen-powered truck during a moving demonstration, part of Anglo American Plc’s NuGen carbon-neutral project, at the Anglo American Platinum Ltd. Mogalakwena platinum mine in Mogalakwena, South Africa, on Friday, May 6, 2022. Anglo American unveiled the worlds biggest green-hydrogen powered truck at a platinum mine in northeast South Africa where it aims to replace a fleet of 40 diesel-fueled vehicles that each use about a million liters of the fossil fuel every year. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

South Africa faces skills gap in hydrogen economy, report finds

The Labour Market Intelligence report has found that occupational workers lack hydrogen-specific skills to compete in the global economy

(Phill Magakoe/Getty Images)

El Niño, the next inflation frontline

South Africa, and the world, seem to be emerging out of an inflation-induced economic malaise. But as the world heats up, so will prices

Developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change are angry about a new text released at COP29 on Friday, which says developed countries must pay $250 billion a year until 2035 for climate action.(Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

SA’s R210 billion grid dilemma hits pause on load-shedding fix

Renewable energy could close the gap between demand and supply, ending load-shedding. But out-of-pocket Eskom must find money to upgrade its transmission infrastructure first

Photo: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Harness ‘waste’ food for SA’s hungry, says nonprofit FoodForward SA

Food considered ‘waste’ after reaching its ‘best before’ date can help stem hunger and malnutrition

The proposed 4 000MW project would be built at Duynefontein next to the existing Koeberg  nuclear power station near Cape Town.
Photo: David Harrison

OPINION|Nuclear is South Africa’s energy solution

Small modular nuclear reactors can help South Africa transition to a low-carbon economy

Eskom told Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts that it was targeting suppliers mentioned in the Zondo report

Eskom’s head of generation quits amid load-shedding crisis

The state utility’s generation division is central to the country’s energy crisis as its ageing coal fleet has caused South Africans to put up with 15 years of intermittent…

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Government is reviewing Eskom board, says Gordhan

The power utility’s board and management need reinforcements to ready it for the future, the public enterprises minister said

(Photo by Mahmoud Issa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New era of health science for Africa as NantSA launches vaccine-manufacturing campus

The first locally manufactured Covid-19 vaccine from the new facility, which is based in Cape Town, is expected within the next year

‘Don’t call me, I’ll call you’ — Mashaba tells ANC

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba holds all the cards in the coming coalition talks

Supporters of the ruling African National Congress  man their party stand outside a polling station in Hangberg, an area of Houtbay, near Cape Town, on November 1, 2021, during South Africa’s local elections. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

Is the ANC’s corrective action too little too late?

Although the ANC believes it has done okay in these elections, the numbers tell a different tale

Leading the pack in vote counting is the Northern Cape, where 89% of the province’s results have been completed. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

LGE 2021: IEC making strides in reaching target of 90% counted ballots

Northern Cape leads in the vote counting with 89% of its results already completed

Mashaba will not strong-arm parties to become Johannesburg mayor

ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba says he is ready to negotiate for a coalition in good faith

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen. Photo by Lulama Zenzile/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Steenhuisen hints at Maimane’s exit hurting the DA at the polls

The DA leader apportioned some of the blame for the DA’s decline on his predecessor Mmusi Maimane “walking off the job”

South Africa’s youth are not apathetic but they don’t feel connected to the government and political parties and they don’t trust politicians.
(David Harrison/M&G)

LGE 2021: Thousands turned away, but IEC says it is not to blame

The IEC came out guns blazing on Tuesday, despite thousands of voters who had registered in September being turned away because of technical glitches

ActionSA is the dark horse of this year’s local government elections. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ActionSA’s rise, low voter turnout likely to dominate aftermath of this year’s elections

The projections suggest that the two biggest parties — the ANC and the DA — will be eating a huge piece of humble pie as both the broad church and the blue party will see a…

South Africa gets major investment to treat Covid-19, TB, cancer, and HIV

President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the investment, noting that it ‘is a leapfrog to cutting edge technology’