‘The fact that some of the figures are all over the place suggests hurried and shoddy work. That puts a question mark over the credibility,' says an environmental justice researcher. In order to crank out roughly 1,200MW of electricity from…
Saving the kelp forest that stars in My Octopus Teacher The Bafta-winning Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher focuses on a film-maker who befriends an octopus. But the unsung star of the show is actually the kelp forest off the coast of Cape…
Ten years ago today, Andries Tatane died after being shot with rubber bullets at close range by police in Ficksburg. The officers who stood trial for the killing were acquitted and kept their jobs. Last month, Mthokozisi Ntumba was shot and killed…
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Stephen Grootes
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The Chief Justice has put former president Jacob Zuma on the back foot in his stand-off with the Zondo Commission. In a case this important, his action could be the masterstroke that changes the political and legal equations around the issue. The…
All 195 countries on the planet are in the same big salad bowl. Covid knows no borders, carries no passport. We can say that there is a vaccine, but not that ‘we all' have a vaccine. People with money and power have a vaccine. A mere 16% of…
