# The Technology Innovation Agency is investing 14-million-rand into a programme aimed at fast-tracking detection of livestock diseases. The funding will support biotechnology company TokaBio and its work on diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and avian influenza. TokaBio operates laboratories in Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal, supporting disease surveillance in the ostrich and livestock sectors. The agency […]
# Die Gautengse polisie ondersoek ‘n dubbele moord nadat 14-jarige tweeling seuns vermoor is in hul huis in Mamelodi-Wes, Tshwane. Die seuns se ma het volgens berigte op die lewelose liggame in hul slaapkamer afgekom toe sy van die werk af teruggekeer het. Die seuns het verskeie steekwonde opgedoen. Die motief vir die moorde is […]
# NamLamb het aan die 2026 Lamb Champs-kompetisie onttrek weens die uitbreking van bek-en-klouseer in Namibië. Lamb Champs is ‘n landboukompetisie waar boere meeding om te bepaal wie die lamvleis met die beste smaak produseer. Die Namibiese span sou op 31 Oktober teen Suid-Afrikaanse boere meeding, maar beperkings op die beweging van lewende hawe en […]
# NamLamb has withdrawn from the 2026 Lamb Champs Invitational in Pretoria because of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Namibia. Lamb Champs is an agricultural competition where farmers compete to determine who produces the best-tasting lamb. The Namibian team was due to compete against South African farmers on 31 October, but livestock movement restrictions and […]
# Die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap sê professor Fanelwa Ngece-Ajayi se reis van haar kinderjarejare in Khayelitsha tot waar sy nou ’n vooraanstaande wetenskaplike is, toon die krag van onderwys, mentorskap en die ondersteuning van die gemeenskap. Ngece-Ajayi se navorsing fokus op groen nanotegnologie, insluitend sensors vir geneesmiddelmetabolisme, watersuiwering en tegnologieë om skadelike mikrobes te […]
# The University of the Western Cape says professor Fanelwa Ngece-Ajayi’s journey from growing up in Khayelitsha to becoming a leading scientist shows the power of education, mentorship and community support. Ngece-Ajayi’s research focuses on green nanotechnology, including drug-metabolism sensors, water purification and technologies to fight harmful microbes. She also promotes Science, Technology, Engineering and […]
# Gauteng police are investigating a double murder after 14-year-old twin boys were found murdered at their home in Mamelodi West, Tshwane. Their mother reportedly discovered the lifeless bodies in their bedroom when she returned from work. The boys had sustained multiple stab wounds. The motive for the killings remains unknown, and no arrests have […]
# Die Johannesburgse Metropolisie het ‘n vlaag aanvalle op sy personeel veroordeel. ‘n Verkeersbeampte, Reagan Joseph, is Donderdag doodgeskiet toe hy en twee kinders in sy privaat voertuig was. Een van die kinders is beseer en in die hospitaal opgeneem. Woordvoerder Xolani Fihla, sê dit is die derde aanval binne ‘n week. In die ander […]
# Tygerberg-hospitaal vier sy 50ste bestaansjaar met die herdenking van vyf dekades van gespesialiseerde gesondheidsorg in die Wes-Kaap. Sedert sy opening in 1976 het die hospitaal pasiënte met ingewikkelde mediese toestande behandel en geslagte gesondheidsorgwerkers opgelei. Die hospitaal was ook betrokke by belangrike mediese deurbrake, waaronder Suid-Afrika se eerste vierling wat deur middel van in-vitro-bevrugting […]
