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AfriForum appeals SCA decision on ‘Kill the Boer’, forms strategy to oppose Malema’s “racist” actions
Civil rights group AfriForum will approach the Supreme Court of Appeal to oppose the Equality Court ruling that singing 'Kill the Boer' is not hate speech.
Losing her grandmother inspired Zwothe Muthabeni to become a nurse
Zwothe Muthabeni graduated with a Nursing degree at 22 from university and became a nurse after she couldn't care for her ailing grandmother before she died.
In a warming world, is an air-conditioned future inevitable?
They are ubiquitous in the United States, controversial in Europe and coveted in South Asia. In the United States, where about 90 percent of households have AC, studies have highlighted the role of air conditioning in protecting the population -- and the potentially devastating effect of widespread power cuts during heatwaves.
Most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen: UN
Most of the oil on board a rusting super-tanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said. "More than half the oil aboard the decaying FSO Safer has been transferred to the replacement vessel Yemen in the past seven days," the UN resident coordinator for Yemen, David Gressly, said on social media on Tuesday.
TikTok video shows 2 men riding in bakkie with plastic bags over them to keep warm from cold wind, SA amused
Two men were captured on video covered in large plastic bags while riding in the back of a bakkie to try to escape the cold wind. South Africans were amused.
Less power, lower emissions: improving AC technology
With air conditioner demand surging, scientists are looking for ways to improve the energy efficiency of cooling systems and limit damaging emissions that accelerate global warming. Separate groups of scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, respectively have built air conditioners that use water to cool the air.
Sonia Mbele denies Musa Khawula's infidelity claims with strong alibi as proof
Actress Sonia Mbele has denied dating a married Limpopo man amid scandalous claims by gossip blogger Musa Khawula, expressing disinterest in romantic affairs.
The fight to save 'sacred' Carpathian forests from loggers
Vast gaps in the forest canopy are visible from above Romania's Carpathian mountains, while stumps studding the ground are reminders of the trees chopped into logs and piled beside dirt roads. Slovakia's share of the Carpathians -- second in size to Romania's -- has also come in for environmental concern.
Venezuela torture victim uses VR to shed light on infamous prison
Cries of pain ring out from the dark hallways and cramped cells, punctuated by the sound of electric shocks. And not everything is virtual: the cries of pain, in between the electric shocks, are real, recorded by a prisoner who secretly had a cellphone.
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