UCT’s professor Liesl Zühlke has won the L’Oréal-UNESCO International Science Award. (Photo: supplied) University of Cape Town (UCT) professor Liesl Zühlke has been selected as the 2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award laureate for Africa and the Arab States, recognising her work in cardiac and cardiovascular science, particularly among children and underserved communities….
The UN Charter is facing one of its gravest tests in decades, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday, warning that wars, arms races, climate shocks and the erosion of international law are placing intense pressure on the multilateral system established to prevent a third world war. Addressing a high-level Security Council debate…
H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, this morning received H.E. Prof. @AmbMiguelBembe , Ambassador of the Republic of #Angola to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the AU. The Chairperson commended Angola’s longstanding commitment & valuable contributions to the promotion of peace, security, & stability across…
The remaining 16,000 residents of a Southern California city were allowed to return home Tuesday, days after the threat of a catastrophic explosion at a chemical tank prompted fears of an environmental disaster. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The crisis at the 7,000-gallon tank of…
OpenAI CEO SSam Altman. Kylie Cooper/Reuters OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday that the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global “jobs apocalypse” and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared. Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney,…
Far beyond entertainment, sport has repeatedly demonstrated a unique ability to unite people across divisions of race, class, geography and generation. Arsenal’s 2025/26 Premier League triumph, alongside some of South Africa’s most iconic sporting moments, reveals how loyalty, belonging and shared celebration can foster social cohesion in an increasingly fragmented world. Sport is often dismissed…
The Minister of Higher Education and Training, Buti Manamela, has secured commitments from private sector leaders to partner with government in advancing South Africa’s skills development agenda and strengthening the country’s education-to-employment pipeline. The commitments emerged from a high-level business breakfast convened by Manamela on Monday, ahead of the Higher Education and Training Budget Vote…
The country has recorded more than 60,000 suspected cases of measles in just over two months.
Sunitha Chalam, a partner at the Singapore office of global strategic communications and advisory firm Brunswick Group. We still talk about cyber incidents as if they’re black swan events – unexpected, rare and shocking. “But the truth is that cyber incidents have gone from being something that only happens occasionally to something that happens regularly.”…
Africa’s meaningful participation in the rapidly expanding global space economy will depend not only on technological advancement, but also on strengthening the continent’s legal, policy, regulatory and institutional frameworks for space governance. This was according to Nomfuneko Majaja, Chief Director of Space Affairs at the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) and Africa…
