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Children wade through the flooded Westpoort road on their way to school in Mitchells Plain on 10 May. Archive photo: David Harrison

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Sassa gets the bulk of social development budget allocation

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The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) African Regional Certification Commission declared South Africa polio-free in 2019. Image credit: , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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A major step for food security in SA: The SABS food donation standard is published

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Solar boom exposes critical engineering workforce gap

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Why processing is the food security lever Southern Africa keeps ignoring

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How South Africans are showing up for Western Cape storm victims

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Why SA's youth shouldn't waste the circular economy opportunity

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Seynabou Diop works at a station in a laboratory where the hantavirus genome was sequenced from the April 2026 outbreak, at Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal. Image credit: Reuters/Ricci Shryock

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X3M Ideas created a Nollywood series called Don’t Burn Their Future. Source: X3M Ideas.

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African scientists invited to apply for $150k Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant

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No plan to review SA’s coal exports to Israel, says Parks Tau

Matthew Hirsch 18 May 2026

Act For Change: Checkers and Meals on Wheels to deliver R1m worth of stationery to learners in SA

18 May 2026

SA Agulhas II to evacuate Marion Island team after fuel shortage delays relief voyage

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Eviction law reform sparks debate over housing rights and market access

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Social development shake-up as Ramaphosa sacks minister

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