SpaceX Starship prototype exploded, but it’s still a giant leap towards Mars: Private company SpaceX launched SN8, a prototype of its Starship spacecraft, designed to go to the Moon and Mars, on December 10. Its short flight attracted a great deal of attention for it’s final few seconds before landing – when it exploded. But …
South Africa in the news: TymeBank and IDEMIA Collaborate Towards Increased Security and Convenience in Customer Card Issuance: TymeBank, South Africa’s first truly digital bank, teams up with IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, to deliver a secure, convenient and frictionless way for customers to acquire bank …: “South Africa” – BingNews Global Anhydrous …
Continental report ranks how friendly African governments are towards girls: Failure to invest in girls has socioeconomic impacts on multiple generations. shutterstock There are approximately over 308 million girls below 18 years on the African continent. While the African Union’s legal and policy framework does refer – patchily – to the rights, interests and plight …
South Africa in the news: EMERGING MARKETS-Stocks climb and rouble slips as Biden inches towards presidency: Russia’s rouble suffered on Thursday while China’s yuan and emerging market stocks scaled multi-year highs as Joe Biden moved closer to victory in a tight U.S. election race.: “South Africa” – BingNews Catch a Lift on South Africa’s newest …
Nagorno-Karabakh: are Armenia and Azerbaijan sliding towards all-out war?: Nagorno-Karabakh is a place name few in the West will recognise. But this small, unrecognised mountainous state with a population of about 150,000, is now the site of deadly ongoing clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Nagorno-Karabakh, known in Armenian as Artsakh, has been the object of …
Young Belarusians are turning away from Russia and looking towards Europe: Since Belarus’s disputed presidential elections on August 9, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have taken to the streets. Their protests have been met with extreme police brutality. According to the country’s electoral commission, Alexander Lukashenko won 80% of the vote share, and his principal …
South Africa in the news: OPINION | The future of journalism in South Africa: Through the rear-view mirror towards the windscreen: I glance at the rear-view mirror and catch glimpses of the glory of days gone by. This view is breathtaking. It is the “God’s Window” view of the legacy of journalism in this country. …
International research collaborations: how can we shift the power towards Africa?: Post-COVID, there's an opportunity to form lateral research partnerships driven by the needs of African communities. GettyImages The higher education sector globally has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Academics have been discussing various aspects of the disruptions in a series of webinars organised …
Charles Dickens’s attitude towards women was more complex than ‘misogynist’ label suggests: Charles Dickens with his two daughters. National Portrait Gallery “Charles Dickens the misogynist”, ran a headline in the Mail on Sunday on May 23 2020, publicising a new book marking the 150th anniversary of his death on June 9 1870. “The novelist was …
How my research into 19th-century military music revealed progressive attitudes towards homosexuality in a farmer’s diary: Recently, quite by accident while looking for something completely different – information on British military music in the Napoleonic era, to be precise – I discovered a remarkable discussion of homosexuality in the diary of an early 19th-century Yorkshire …
How fungi can help us towards a green construction industry: Hy-Fi, The Living, MoMA. Jessica Sheridan/Flickr, CC BY-SA The world of fungi has attracted a lot of interest and seems to be becoming very fashionable of late. A new exhibition at Somerset House in London, for example, is dedicated to “the remarkable mushroom”. No surprise: …
CMAG Youth Climate Forum: Working Towards a Sustainable Future – a Culture interest event taking place on 2020-02-01 16:00:00 in Australia at Community & Culture London Circuit Canberra Australia – Add your South African Event here. Have you tried: Travelling to South Africa?
International Biosphere Eco-City Symposium towards SDGs – a Africa interest event taking place on 2019-07-03 20:30:00 in Canada iBEC "International Biosphere Eco-City Symposium towards Sustainable Development Goals" will be held on July 03 – 05, 2019 in Ottawa, Canada. iBEC2019 slogan is ”Green practices for the future” to discuss initiatives, practices and solutions for the …
Bangladesh is booming, but slide towards authoritarianism could burst the bubble: On the right track? Shutterstock Bangladesh has been a development success story in recent years. The country made remarkable progress in poverty alleviation prior to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015 and has over performed on multiple social indicators, such as education, …
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Injustice towards Black Trans Women and the First Trans Cultural District – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-01-03 18:30:00 in United States This conversation will center around two topics: Injustice towards black trans women in our criminal justice system and the formation of the nation's first transgender cultural district – the Compton's Transgender …
A nice Camps Bay Beach image: From Goat Island (Mapoutahi Pa) towards Doctors Point Blueskin Bay Otago Image by Alpat The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 11 1939 Mapoutahi Pa (Goat Island Blueskin Bay)The Massacre at Mapoutahi Pa The Story of a Southern Maori Inter-Tribal War Before The Coming of the Pakeha (By …
50 years after Star Trek’s ‘kiss’, how have attitudes towards interethnic marriage changed?: 'The kiss' was probably the most memorable, if not the first, of early on-screen interracial embraces. CBS/Paramount Pictures © 1968 In the long-running sci-fi serial Star Trek, the mission of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise is to “boldly go where …