Jozi’s Parktown prawn: evolution at its best
Marcus Byrne, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa’s notorious Parktown prawn gets its name from the leafy Johannesburg suburb where it has flourished and spread...
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Jozi’s planning a digital revolution
by AdminBraai
Barry Dwolatzky, University of the Witwatersrand Over the past two years, an initiative has been underway to put an area of central Johannesburg on the...
IBM research lab to work with the cool kids
by Sarah Wild
Multinational research company IBM announced on Friday that it will be opening a research laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Witwatersrand, in the Tshimologong...
Downward spiral of Africa’s dying vultures
by Sarah Wild
Poisoning is the chief menace but power lines, wind turbines and loss of habitat are also a threat to to Africa’s endangered vulture populations, writes...
The legacy of mining: an environmental and health disaster in the making
For episode 3 of The Science Inside, we went to Kagiso, a township in Johannesburg’s West Rand, where the community has had enough. This is...