Nature22h
Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...
South Africa’s 20-million-year-old fynbos fish face final gasp
Fynbos fish, some dating back 20 million years, are disappearing from South Africa’s rivers. Conservationists warn that ...
South Africa’s 20-million-year-old fynbos fish face final gas
Fynbos fish, some dating back 20 million years, are disappearing from South Africa’s rivers. Conservationists warn that ...
eLife2d
Single-cell sequencing provides clues about the developmental genetic basis of evolutionary adaptations in syngnathid fishes
This study provides a valuable new resource to investigate the molecular basis of the particular features characterizing the pipefish embryo. The authors found both unique and shared gene expression ...
Live Science3d
7,000-year-old bone holds 3 arrowheads with mixed poisons — the oldest of their kind on record
This is the oldest confirmed use of a mixture comprising two or more plant toxins specifically applied to arrowheads.
Gang leader 'Tiger' evades South African police after 78 mine deaths
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, ...
USA Today20d
Video of South African firefighters wrongly linked to LA fires | Fact check
A Jan. 11 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a large group of people singing, dancing and holding South African flags in an airport baggage claim. "South African firefighters landed ...
The Economist20d
West African booze is becoming a luxury product
Besides Nigeria, Pedro’s is sold in Ghana and Britain, with Kenya, South Africa and France next on the list. For now, both distilleries produce only small batches, partly to emphasise that they ...
sanews20d
Call to help police track down suspect in hit-and-run incident
The South African Police Service (SAPS) in Welkom is urgently appealing to the public for assistance in locating the driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and-run incident. In a statement, the ...
CNN21d
Rescuers try to free men trapped in South African gold mine with scores reported dead
The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...
Al Jazeera English21d
South Africa accused of ‘horrific’ crackdown as 78 bodies pulled from mine
At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...
Reuters21d
South Africa accused of 'horrific' crackdown as 78 corpses pulled from illegal mine
Earlier, there were fears dozens or even hundreds more men could still be trapped. The South African Federation of Trade Unions accused the state on Tuesday of allowing miners "to starve to death ...