Hunting has long been a highly controversial activity, whether as a sport (leisure or recreational), for commercial purposes or if done for cultural reasons. African countries that legalise hunting activities experience scrutiny around their conservation efforts, and how much money they make from it. In an article in The Conversation Africa, Nkabeng Maruping-Mzileni, a lecturer…
We’re excited to announce that we’re putting up round-ups about science in South Africa on crowdCaster, a new platform for short-form sound-bites. It’s like a podcast with ADHD! Every Friday, we’ll try to post a short summary (the format allows a maximum clip of 140 seconds) of what we covered during the week and why…
Have you built something that you’d like to show off to the country? Do you have an opinion on a gadget, game or anything at all that’s vaguely techie that you’d like to share? Do you do unboxings on YouTube that nobody watches and you’d like a bit more exposure? Well, here’s your chance: EDGE,…
Unlike those who can afford a security system for their homes, residents in informal settlements have virtually no way of telling if their homes are being invaded. But now, a new cost-effective alarm system is looking to change that. Most township alarm systems we’ve seen lately, like Lumkani andScova, are made to combat fires in townships. Cape Town-based…
South Africa’s children are bearing the brunt of increasing food prices – and the effects may be permanent. More than one in five children in South Africa are stunted because of malnutrition, according to the Global Nutrition Report 2015 released on Friday. Experts warn that this will get worse as food prices rise. Childhood stunting…
Die 85-jarige koskultuurkenner Renata Coetzee word beskou as die pionier as dit kom by die navors en opskryf van Suider-Afrika se koskultuur. Sy’s ‘n opgeleide voedingskundige, en het op haar dag by die 250 000 kultuursensitiewe maaltye beplan vir diegene wat by Anglo American se myne gewerk het. Sy’t al vir Nelson Mandela gekook en…
On Saturday 22 August, SciBraai, Code4SA and the International Center for Journalists hosted the first ever science-themed Data Quest, which produced some great potential multimedia science stories. Held at Code4SA’s Codebridge lab in Cape Town, the event put data nerds, scientists and journalists into teams tasked with sifting through publicly available data to find stories and create interactive data…