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Probiotics are health-promoting bacteria that naturally occur in the intestine of any animal with a gut.

Workplaces are adopting new forms of advanced automation at a rate that suggests a digital revolution in the making.

Gqeberha health workers march to hand in a petition against the district manager and end “nepotism and racism”. They say, "De Vos must go".

Saldanha Bay harbour on the west coast of South Africa has long been an important point for global shipping routes.

Almost 60 people are still left homeless after last weeks fire in Khayelitsha. The cause of which is still unknown.

The trouble with metropolitan cities, or metros, is that, even in the best of times, they are hellishly difficult to govern.

Concerning findings have delayed the Auditor-General in finalising this years audit report for the National Lotteries Commission.

Academics and residents are working together in two Limpopo villages, Ga-Komape and Ga-Manamela, to find out more about the areas’ groundwater resources.

A global target for the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV globally was set in 2015.

An extra 8 months has been granted to PRASA to relocate the families living along Cape Towns main train line.

Hunting for variants requires a concerted effort. South Africa and the UK were the first big countries to implement nationwide genomic surveillance efforts for SARS-CoV-2 as early as April 2020.

Skin lightening products have been popular for more than 40 years among sub-Saharan African populations.

The author’s choice of 1902 as his starting point is presumably because from then on South Africa was under one political ruler – first, the British imperial government; then white settlers; and since 1994, majoritarian democratic rule.

To effectively combat the new Covid-19 variant we will need to restrict ourselves in a timely and sustainable way.

The world around us, and the way researchers study and understand it, changes all the time. The constant change means that what we know through science also shifts.

To fetch water, young girls and women sacrifice much. And simply in order to provide sanitation and safety for their families.

Africa boasts an immensely rich diversity of plant and animal species. These are the building blocks of healthy ecosystems.

With little to no access to municipal water, residents demand that the municipality at least drill boreholes and provides tanks.

For machine learning to be effective at making useful predictions, any learning system needs access to training data.

Many bodies of water in and around Cape Town are full of pollution, but the residents are not the only ones to blame.

Comparative criminology is not just an academic exercise. In view of Africa’s ongoing and deepening engagement with China, it is worth asking what South Africa can learn from that culture when it comes to some of its most pressing social ...

A project started in 2018 is teaching school children to care for nature through planting fynbos in and around their areas.

Perhaps surprisingly to some, the small-scale fisheries make a greater contribution to the continent’s economy than their industrial counterparts.

The recently released IPCC working group 1 report dealing with the physical science basis of climate change is clear. Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C ...