# Founder and chief designer of the popular luxury Xhosa knitwear brand MaXhosa Africa, Laduma Ngxokolo, presented his Spring/Summer 2026 collection at Paris Fashion Week over the weekend. The collection of 30 bold looks is titled Izipho Zabadala, which means Gifts For the Ancestors. Former US first lady Michelle Obama and singer Beyoncé are among the […]
# Durban University of Technology postgraduate librarian, Nonsikelelo Patricia Badenhorst, has been named as the Research Support Librarian of the Year by the Library and Information Association of South Africa. This prestigious national award recognises librarians who go above and beyond in advancing research support, empowering researchers, curating knowledge, and integrating innovation within academic library […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie sê e-sigarette dryf ‘n ontstellende nuwe golf van nikotienverslawing aan, met miljoene kinders wat tans verslaaf is aan damprook. Lande wat die data kan verskaf, toon kinders is gemiddeld nege keer meer geneig as volwassenes om e-sigarette te rook. Die VN se gesondheidsagentskap sê die bedryf bevorder damprook as minder skadelik as […]
# ‘n Israelse drukgroep wat hom beywer vir die vrylating van gyselaars in Gaza vra dat die Nobelprys vir Vrede toegeken word aan die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, vir sy vasberadenheid om vrede te bewerkstellig in die Midde-Ooste. Die forum skryf in ‘n brief aan die Noorweegse Nobel-komitee Trump het moontlik gemaak wat baie as […]
# The World Health Organisation says e-cigarettes are fuelling an “alarming” new wave of nicotine addiction, with millions of children now hooked on vaping. In countries that have the data, children are on average nine times more likely than adults to vape. The UN health agency said the industry was promoting vapes as supposedly less […]
# An Israeli advocacy group campaigning for the release of hostages in Gaza has called for US President Donald Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “determination to bring peace” to the region. In a letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Trump made “possible […]
# Vanjaar se Nobelprys vir Medisyne is toegeken aan ‘n Japanese en twee Amerikaanse wetenskaplikes wat ontrafel het hoe die immuunstelsel die menslike liggaam beskerm teen duisende verskillende mikrobes wat dit probeer binnedring. Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell en Shimon Sakaguchi deel die prys vir die identifisering van regulerende T-selle wat as die immuunstelsel se […]
# The 2025 Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded to a Japanese and two American scientists for unravelling how the immune system protects the human body from thousands of different microbes trying to invade it. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi will share the prize for identifying “regulatory T cells,” acting as the […]
# Die Tafelberg-sweefspoormaatskappy vier hierdie maand sy 96ste verjaardag, wat beteken besoekers word reeds byna ‘n eeu lank na een van die nuwe sewe natuurwonders van die wêreld gelok. Meer as 32-miljoen mense het sedert 1929 die skilderagtige rit geniet. Die besturende direkteur, Wahida Parker, sê die mylpaal val saam met die “Local is Lekker”-spesiale […]
