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The devastation at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran after a US-Israel missile strike this weekend: Images: Fars News Agency

Khamenei killing puts limits of self-defence under UN Charter to the test

The United Nations Charter prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another state, the only recognised exception being…

Expressing anger on social media is merely performative outrage and does not result in action to prevent such abuse

Universities need to better address gender inequality, report says

The report by the Commission for Gender Equality found that universities were reluctant to review their sexual harassment policies This content is restricted to registered users…

Prof Emmanuel Iwuoha, Chair of the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) for NanoElectrochemistry and Sensor Technology.

The biosensor sage

Prof Emmanuel Iwuoha’s legacy transforms lives through nanoscience

Prof Timothy Dube, Director of the Institute for Water Studies at UWC.

The aqua innovator

Prof Timothy Dube harnesses AI to revolutionise water management

Wordsmiths: Translated into English by fellow poet Karen Press (below), Antjie Krog’s collection Plunder explores themes of family, body and land through pillaging. Photos: Brenda Veldtman

Poems from plunder to pillage

Antjie Krog’s latest collection of poems, which were written in Afrikaans, has been translated by another poet, Karen Press

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu calling for peace in Katutura, Namibia in 1988. Photos: Rashid Lombard

The Rashid Lombard Archive is where it’s happening

With the induction last week of the Rashid Lombard Archive at the University of the Western Cape his photography and stories will soon be accessible to a new generation.

A scene showing the rich life on the reef below the kelp canopy in False Bay

Voltaren found in False Bay wastewater treatment water

Study reveals how high concentrations of pharmaceutical products are ending up in False Bay’s marine environment

Choices: The proposed site of the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone in the Limpopo Valley is on Malumbwane land but residents are divided over the zone. (James Puttick)

Musina-Makhado zone cut down to size but ‘it’s window-dressing’

Opponents claim the reduced metallurgical and energy cluster with a coal-fired power plant will still cause harm to the environment

Shipment of 300 000 J&J vaccines expected soon in SA

The next Covid-19 vaccine shipment is set to arrive in South Africa on Friday evening. How is South Africa doing on the vaccination front?

Single-dose J&J/Janssen Covid-19 vaccine hopes to speed up SA’s vaccination programme

A high efficacy rate for a single-dose J&J/Janssen Covid-19 vaccine might help to speed up the much-needed roll-out plan

Safeguarding the future:
Isaac Sekwama believes
the government cares more
about the SEZ than the
people who live on the land. Photo: James Puttick.

Musina-Makhado SEZ: ‘We don’t want Limpopo Valley to turn into industrial wasteland’

The government should find a less environmentally sensitive site for the special economic zone, especially if water can’t be secured, EIA report finds

(John McCann/M&G)

Universities rally to fight pandemic

These institutions are a crucial part of the research and development process that underpins South Africa’s life-and-death fight against the Covid-19 outbreak

The market requires entrepreneurialism, innovation, critical thinking, decisiveness and problem-solving abilities, but most schools and tertiary institutions don’t support this. Photo: AFP

Graduates and their unemployment dilemma

South African university graduates are willing to take menial jobs because of the dearth of suitable employment despite being highly educated

While the drought was about the lack of accumulating and circulating water, the transport-related crisis is about the non-movement of humans, their goods, and their economic potential. (David Harrison/M&G)

Seeking mobility justice

The drought-related day zero and the mobility day zero have more in common than you may think, writes Dr Bradley Rink

Professor Narend Baijnath said an institution can lose its accreditation if

Eight universities get full LLB accreditation; five more in the balance

Universities that faced the risk of losing their accreditation for the bachelor of laws qualification are off the hook

Times gone by: Dutch and English ships sought safe harbour in the Cape’s Table Bay

Poets reclaim Cape Town’s historical narrative

A jamboree of poets traverses the city, feels it’s pain and emerges to restore what was taken

The Incoming chief justice Raymond Zondo cautioned against populist accusations that the judiciary is captured. (Paul Botes/M&G)

​Campus politics signals a jump to the left, say student leaders

The Economic Freedom Fighters and Pan Africanist movement dominate Cape university SRCs.

University of Cape Town students protesting on October 20 2015.

Students occupy #FeesCommission, demand Max Price remove interdict against students

UCT vice-chancellor barred from leaving meeting by protesters who want the commission to investigate how free education can be realised.

Eight SA universities feature in new top 100 list

Quacquarelli Symonds has published its top 100 universities in the five Brics countries, of which eight are South African.

Members of the University of the Western Cape’s rights group ‘Gayla UWC’ claim security failed to intervene in an assault on a transgender student.

University of WC faces rights row after transgender student beaten

Members of the University of the Western Cape’s rights group Gayla UWC claim security failed to intervene in an assault of a transgender student.