Month: December 2017

Most new knowledge in South Africa comes from universities, but that is often where it stays. Bound tightly in academic jargon and kept within disciplines, […]

  Thifhelimbilu Mulateli Rhodes University – MSc   The jointed cactus, Opuntia aurantiaca, got a foothold in South Africa because it is pretty. It gave […]

Serina Sowman University of KwaZulu-Natal – MSc   For thousands of years, humans have protected themselves from the sun. The ancient Egyptians, for example, were […]

Senamile Masango University of the Western Cape – MSc     The universe is full of mysteries: some in the farthest reaches of space, others […]

  Rodney Buang Sebopelo North West University – MSc   From students through to tenured professors, everyone on a university campus is on the internet. […]

Mcebisi Qabaqaba University of Fort Hare – MSc   It contains some of the most extensive and well-exposed sequences of rocks from the supercontinent Gondwanaland, […]

Kimberleigh Tommy The University of the Witwatersrand – MSc   Two legs and walking upright by putting one foot in front of the other over […]

  Katherine Hutchinson University of Cape Town and the South African Environmental Observations Network – PhD The American vessel RV Knorr bobs on the surface […]

  Ingrid Minnaar Stellenbosch University – PhD It looks innocent with its black spots and big eyes, but the harlequin ladybird, an invasive species native […]

  Diego Castillo University of Pretoria – MSc   With trillions of bacterial cells in our bodies, some say that we are more bacterial than […]