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The Johannesburg suburb’s Light Festival realised — over the course of a day — the magical, equalising and humanising moments that culture can create. 

Four activists who exposed corruption in the province were killed in 2019. Three people have been arrested, but those who allegedly orchestrated the assassinations remain at large.

Projects in North West and Limpopo grow hope of surviving climate change

Chatbot advice for lockdown-hit workers 18 Dec 2020 14 December 2020. LUMA (Legal Understanding Made Accessible) is a free chatbot that provides users with legal advice. (James Puttick) Your contact with the law starts at birth, says Grace Gichanga. “There are legal contractual obligations that happen at many steps in your life journey. But only when you find that you’re in trouble, you realise, ‘Oh wow, I need to know what’s happening here’.” Gichanga is the creator of Luma, a legal advice chatbot that helps ordinary people access information about their rights and the law when ...

Cape Town has been named the biodiversity capital of the world, but sadly also the extinction capital of the world. Of the city’s 19 veld types, six are found only in Cape Town. Dr Caitlin von Witt says this unique diversity is partly the result of the varying climate, topography and soils. Gardeners monitor one of the fynbos circles. (Photo: Caitlin von Witt) In partnership with the City of Cape Town, FynbosLIFE has created two veld circles so far as part of the FundaFynbos project to showcase two of Cape Town’s endemic and endangered veld types: Peninsula Granite Fynbos and Cape Flats D...