African Utility Week returns to Cape Town in May with latest updates and success stories in power, energy and water: Mother City to welcome back 10 000+ energy and water professionals Photo: Spintelligent “The African Utility Week conference has a longstanding reputation of producing innovative, topical and high-level content, discussion and engagement” says event director Evan … [Read more...] about African Utility Week returns to Cape Town in May with latest updates and success stories in power, energy and water
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CEO’s exit underscores how few South African women hold top jobs | The Conversation
CEO's exit underscores how few South African women hold top jobs: Maria Ramos, pictured here at the 2009 World Economic Forum early in her tenure at ABSA. Copyright World Economic Forum www.weforum.org / Eric Miller emiller@iafrica.com [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-NDThe CEO of one of South Africa’s top four … [Read more...] about CEO’s exit underscores how few South African women hold top jobs | The Conversation
How we know that ancient African people valued fossils and rocks | The Conversation
How we know that ancient African people valued fossils and rocks: The trilobite manuport (Bainella sp) from Robberg on the Cape south coast was carried at least 10 km to a small cave shelter. For scale, the bar is 10 cm long. Author Supplied It’s been nearly 50 years since geologist and author Dorothy Vitaliano coined the term “geomythology”. This refers to the study of oral … [Read more...] about How we know that ancient African people valued fossils and rocks | The Conversation
Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost | The Conversation
Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost: Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. ShutterstockAll organisms are unique. Each having a set of genetic instructions for their build-up and maintenance. This set of genetic instructions is contained in genes that makeup a genome. The World Health … [Read more...] about Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost | The Conversation
How South Africans forged a path to making opera truly African | The Conversation
How South Africans forged a path to making opera truly African: South African soprano Pretty Yende (L) & Mexican tenor Javier Camarena during a rehearsal of 'I puritani' in Spain, 2018. EPA-EFE/Quique GarciaThe transformation of the arts in South Africa has been on the cultural agenda since the dawn of democracy in 1994. Prior to that the apartheid government was … [Read more...] about How South Africans forged a path to making opera truly African | The Conversation
