Urban food gardens produce more than vegetables, they create bonds for young Capetonians – study
Young urban farmers in Khayelitsha are nurturing connections, creating economic opportunities, and promoting environmental ...
Finding ‘Kape’: How Language Documentation helps us preserve an endangered language
Some languages in the world are facing extinction rapidly. Language Documentation helps us to safeguard and preserve them.
South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a ...
Motor neurone disease campaigner, former AFL champion Neale Daniher, is 2025 Australian of the Year
Neale Daniher, a campaigner in the fight against motor neurone disease and a former champion Essendon footballer, is the 2025 ...
Peter Dutton’s reshuffle: David Coleman the surprise choice as shadow foreign minister
Peter Dutton has chosen David Coleman for the key shadow foreign affairs portfolio, in a reshuffle that also seeks to boost ...
Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...
The Holocaust: how ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses
Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then ...
Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories. ‘We give previously faceless ...
Trump labels drug cartels as terrorist groups – what it means for Mexico and beyond
Donald Trump returned to the US presidency on January 20 with a flurry of executive orders. This included the designation of ...
Seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression
Four photographs by celebrated artist Sally Mann were recently removed from the walls of an exhibition at the Modern Art ...
Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’
When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So ...
Mark Zuckerberg thinks workplaces need to ‘man up’ − here’s why that’s bad for all employees, no matter their gender
Do companies need to embrace a more diesel-fueled, meat-eating mentality? Many already do – and the results aren’t pretty, ...