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1 week ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
GROUNDUP More than 747,000 South African motorists are waiting for their driving licences to be printed.
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1 week ago | 
groundup.org.za | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
Department of Transport says staff will work extra hours to deal with the backlog The machine which prints driving licences, stalled since January, is working again, the Department of Transport has announced. But there is a backlog of nearly 750,000 cards. The department says staff will work overtime to deal with the backlog. The Department of Transport says that the country’s sole printing machine for driving licence cards, stalled since 4 January, is working again.
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1 month ago | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
Like many other countries around the world, mine has been struggling with US cuts to foreign aid. The current administration in the White House has a particular eye on South Africa, and president Trump issued an executive order cutting all aid to the country. Trump’s aid cuts could force up to 5.6 million more Africans into extreme poverty in the next year. It will lead to millions more cases of malaria and childhood malnutrition.
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1 month ago | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
He stands, arms crossed in a determined and powerful pose, against a backdrop of stylishly miscellaneous tech. Across his simple black T-shirt, reminiscent of other rich geniuses and their simple wardrobes, is the line “How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future”. This is the front cover of the biography of Elon Musk that I gave my bookworm father for Christmas almost a decade ago. Unlike other, similar biographies of billionaires, this one had a special glint to it.
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1 month ago | 
theworld.org | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
In a suburb of South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg, hairdresser Allie John has had to adapt to frequent water outages. John, bending over a plastic bucket, uses a jug to scoop out water to wash her client’s hair. “I have water stored in the garage for an emergency. I have to heat and bring in buckets to use on my clients,” she said. “So, it’s very uncomfortable.”Water outages have become part of daily life in Johannesburg.
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2 months ago | 
eurasiareview.com | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
More than 40,000 previously unknown gut microbes in African populations could completely change how medicines work for millions of people, according to scientists. Research led by the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, addressed the gap in microbiome studies, which have largely overlooked African populations.
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2 months ago | 
scidev.net | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
[JOHANNESBURG] More than 40,000 previously unknown gut microbes in African populations could completely change how medicines work for millions of people, according to scientists. Research led by the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, addressed the gap in microbiome studies, which have largely overlooked African populations.
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2 months ago | 
ijnet.org | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
Every year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and The Kavli Foundation honor excellence in science reporting from around the world through the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. The awards recognize submissions in categories such as reporting for children, video reporting, magazine reporting and more. The 2024 winners were celebrated in February at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.
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2 months ago | 
ijnet.org | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz
Cada año, la Asociación Americana para el Avance de la Ciencia (AAAS, por su sigla inglés) y la Fundación Kavli premian la excelencia de la información científica de todo el mundo a través de los Premios Kavli de Periodismo Científico, que se entregan en distintas categorías, incluyendo video e información para niños. Los ganadores de 2024 se dieron a conocer en febrero en la reunión anual de la AAAS en Boston.
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2 months ago | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz |Biénne Huisman |Nthusang Lefafa |Elri Voigt
The Networking HIV and AIDS Community of Southern Africa which relied on USAID money to fund one of their projects. (Supplied: NACOSA/Anotherlove Productions) News & Features3rd March 2025 | Jesse Copelyn South Africa’s public health system is in turmoil after the widespread cancellation of USAID funding agreements. Among others, a USAID-funded project that helped to keep orphaned children on their HIV medication was forced to close.
