News
Food, Water & Energy Security
South Africa’s polluted rivers pose food contamination risk
Steve Kretzmann 26 May 2025
Healthcare
Why is it so difficult to make a new antibiotic?
Alistair Farley and Helen Smith 22 Apr 2025
Food Security
Herbicide-resistant weeds threaten profitable soya bean production
Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria 31 Mar 2025
Events & Conferencing
Singularity Summit 2024 brings mind-bending exponential technologies to Africa
Issued by Mann Made 7 Nov 2024
Agribusiness
South African agriculture needs to crack the Chinese market. How to boost exports
Wandile Sihlobo 16 Sep 2024
Circular Economy & Waste Management
Failing sewage plants continue to pollute False Bay
Steve Kretzmann 16 Feb 2024
Medical Research
Africa's understudied human gut microbiomes could be a rich source of therapeutics
Issued by University of Pretoria 28 Jun 2023
Construction & Engineering
2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation finalists announced
12 Jun 2023
Infrastructure & Utilities
Plans to stop raw sewage being pumped into the sea off Cape Town
Steve Kretzmann 24 Feb 2023
Research & Development
New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature
Nutrition
Are probiotics designed for children giving South African parents more peace of mind?
Issued by Insight Survey 24 Oct 2022
Environment & Natural Resources
The state of our rivers is a clear reflection of the health of our environment
Dr Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa 6 Jun 2022
Circular Economy & Waste Management
Marine life in Western Cape's False Bay is full of chemical pollutants
Leslie Petrik and Cecilia Yejide Ojemaye 2 Jun 2022
Circular Economy & Waste Management
Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue
Professor Anthony Turton 28 Mar 2022
Agro-processing
Swapping probiotics for antibiotics: How it could be a game changer for chickens, and us
3 Dec 2021
Pharmaceuticals
South Africa needs to tighten controls on substandard and counterfeit medicines. Here's how
David R. Katerere 25 Nov 2021
Public Health
Water, power cuts and neglect are taking their toll on South Africa's top hospitals
Daynia Ballot 8 Jul 2021
Infectious Diseases
How The Gambia beat trachoma, an infection that causes blindness
Musa Mutali 7 Jun 2021
Viticulture & Oenology
Webinar sheds light on holistic management of grapevines
Carin Venter 12 Mar 2021
Covid-19
Is Covid-19 a bacteria or a virus? Affinity Health explains the differences
Issued by Affinity Health 26 Nov 2020
Infectious Diseases
Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is a growing threat: a South African case study
Remco Peters & Liteboho Daniel Maduna 28 Oct 2020
Circular Economy & Waste Management
The war against plastic is distracting us from pollution that cannot be seen
Thomas Stanton, Matthew Johnson and Paul Kay 27 Oct 2020
