BEYOND the Loony Toon Hate Parade, will a movement to defend the world against militant theocrats and odious Jew-haters emerge? Those who are quick to label any defense of secularism in the Middle East (or at home) as an 'illiberal plot' against t...
South Africa to Produce Its Own Fleet of MAN Electric Buses
South Africa is gearing up for a major step forward in sustainable transport with the introduction of a new fleet of locally built electric buses. The Paruk Group, which operates one of the country’s largest bus fleets with around 2,000 vehicles, has finalised a deal with MAN Truck & Bus to purch...
The Optimal Energy, Joule EV story
Excellent interview relates how the Zuma administration literally pulled the plug on a project that could have ushered in an era of South African EV dominance.
Breathing New Life into TB Treatment: Wits Researchers Pioneer Inhalable Nanomedicine
JOHANNESBURG – In a bold leap against one of humanity's oldest foes, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Lindokuhle Ngema at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is revolutionizing tuberculosis (TB) treatment with an innovative inhalable nanomedicine. Developed at the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Pl...
NGK washes sin of apartheid with help from Francesca Albanese
WHEN THE World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) declared "Apartheid is a heresy" at Ottawa in August 1982, they did so knowing that the general synods of South Africa's Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) had posited there were "skriftuurlike gronde" (scriptural grounds) to support "rasse-ap...
CRL Rights Commission: Freedom of religion is also freedom from the religious views of others
THE Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) is once again pushing for mechanisms to vet, license and regulate ALL religious organisations and leaders. Freedom of Religion South Africa maintains the proposa...