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Meet Dr Nonkululeko Dladla: SA’s first black woman to earn a PhD in marine geology
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (611+ words) Nonkululeko Dladla never grew up near the sea but her fascination with Earth's hidden history beneath the ocean led her to become South Africa's first black woman to earn a PhD in marine geology. This Women's Day, she reflects on…...
Adelaide Mokonyama
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (266+ words) Every mine begins with a plan, but the best ones shape far more than production targets. Adelaide Mokonyama is helping design the future of South Africa's mining industry, combining engineering precision with long-term thinking to ensure one of the country's…...
Amathole East Teachers Lead the Way in Inquiry-Based Science Education
4+ week, 5+ hour ago (986+ words) Nearly 60 Natural Sciences teachers from the Amathole East Education District in Eastern Cape are strengthening their ability to inspire scientific curiosity and critical thinking in classrooms through an innovative inquiry-based science education programme. The three-day programme, presented by Advancing Knowledge…...
Barrick and Twiga Minerals launch helicopter surveys to boost Tanzania gold exploration – The Mail & Guardian
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (637+ words) Gold mining company Barrick, in partnership with the government through Twiga Minerals, has launched a state-of-the-art helicopter for conducting airborne geological surveys, aimed at reducing environmental impact and enhancing mineral exploration activities in Tanzania. Speaking at the launch of the…...
‘We dig, they profit’: Africa told to turn mineral wealth into power, not poverty – The Mail & Guardian
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (1295+ words) A year ago, Maxwell Gomera’s daughter asked him a question he couldn’t answer. “She had been reading about Zimbabwe’s lithium boom and she said to me: ‘Dad, if we have all this lithium, why are we still poor?’” said Gomera,…...
Governments’ fossil fuel production plans threaten Paris climate goals, new report warns – The Mail & Guardian
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1073+ words) A decade after the Paris Agreement was adopted, governments, in aggregate, still plan to produce far more fossil fuels than would be consistent with limiting global warming to between 1.5°C and 2°C, new analysis has found. Countries are now collectively…...
Shell, mineral and petroleum resources department to appeal court ruling blocking offshore oil drilling – The Mail & Guardian
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (1280+ words) The mineral and petroleum resources department and Shell are to appeal a Western Cape High Court judgment that set aside the government’s environmental authorisation for TotalEnergies EP South Africa to drill for oil and gas off the country’s south-west coast....
Advancing inquiry-based teaching of physics and astronomy in the Overberg education district – The Mail & Guardian
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (862+ words) Advancing Knowledge NPC’s professional development sessions for natural sciences teachers concluded their 2025 delivery in the Overberg Education District of the Western Cape Education Department. A total of 25 Intersen (grades 4-7) teachers braved the bad weather on the weekend of August 1, 2025, to…...