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Claire Keeton is a features writer who has earned awards for her HIV and mental health coverage, and has reported on Covid, including as a vaccine trial volunteer and from inside a Covid ICU. She has spent 30 years exploring SA and been to more than 60 countries reporting on human rights, civil conflicts and environmental threats, as well as doing adventure travel
Thousands of women dressed in black gathered across Cape Town and South Africa, lying down in silence for 15 minutes to honour the 15 women killed every day in the country. The national Women For Change Shutdown attracted mass support.
Scientists collect samples and demonstrate floating lab while cruising
“I want to fix the state so that it is working for the most vulnerable people in society.”
Chanting and singing, hundreds of climate activists spanning more than a city block marched in Cape Town on Thursday to parliament, waving posters and banners with their demands for change.
Eighteen volunteer “helihackers” removed more than 1,300 pines and other invasive trees from Table Mountain’s upper slopes, and 800 invasives from its lower slopes, over just five days in October.
Fishing will be restricted in waters around penguin colonies for at least 10 years to protect the critically endangered African penguin from extinction, forestry, fisheries and environment minister Barbara Creecy said on Friday.
Forestry, fisheries and environment minister Barbara Creecy said on Friday that 9,789MW of renewable energy applications are in the department’s hands.
The Gift of the Givers has engaged the captors of paramedic Gerco van Deventer, who has been held hostage in Mali since November 3 2017, said director Dr Imtiaz Sooliman on the return of their negotiator this week to South Africa.
Two of 12 cheetahs to be flown from South Africa to India in an ambitious transnational relocation project were darted early on Friday at Rooiberg veterinary facility in Limpopo.
New Covid-19 cases and deaths in Africa have risen slightly over the past four weeks but Africa CDC acting director Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma reports cholera has claimed more than 2,000 lives.over this period.
The world is a step closer to fairly sharing natural resources following the UN global biodiversity summit, which ended in Montreal, Canada, this week.
“It’s been three years and I’m free,” says Sean Davison, the right-to-die champion whose three-year house arrest ended on Monday morning with him signing documents at the Cape Town high court.
Johannesburg paraglider and climber Pierre Carter became the first person to legally fly off Mount Everest in Nepal this week and the second solo pilot ever to do this.
The risk of dying from Covid-19 is 20 times higher among people who are not vaccinated than those who had the double dose Pfizer vaccine, a new study by Discovery Health shows.
Covid-19 vaccinations do not increase the risk of first-trimester miscarriages in pregnant women new research shows.
