Oxford dons should stop ‘throwing tantrums’ over statues, says Oriel’s only African tutor Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda is ‘perplexed’ over the fuss surrounding Rhodes statue She said academics should be promoting equality by ‘raising awareness about places…where there is still much more work to be done’ She added that patriarchy in Victorian Britain was ‘in … Read more
More than 1,000 fortune seekers have flocked to a South African village in search of what they believed to be diamonds after a shepherd discovered unidentified stones in the area. People travelled from across the country on Monday to join villagers in KwaHlathi in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. Locals have been digging since Saturday after a … Read more
The dinosaur that grew like a TREE: Analysis of 200million-year-old South African creature’s bones reveals its growth varied season-to-season — more like a plant than a puppy or a baby human Massospondylus carinatus was a plant-eating dinosaur from the early Jurassic Experts from American Museum of Natural History studied its fossil thigh bones They counted growth … Read more
A university director who had faced calls to resign after he used the N-word in a video meeting will keep his job after students campaigned to get him sacked. The director of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, Professor Adam Habib, had said the word as he explained that action would be taken … Read more
Rumble between the jumbos: Bull elephants slug it out in 30-minute brawl during breeding season in a South African game reserve Belinda Joubert filmed two bull elephants facing off in a South African reserve The large pachyderms try to push each other from the road in Pilanesberg They blocked the road for half an hour … Read more
Rumble between the jumbos: Bull elephants slug it out in 30-minute brawl during breeding season in a South African game reserve Belinda Joubert filmed two bull elephants facing off in a South African reserve The large pachyderms try to push each other from the road in Pilanesberg They blocked the road for half an hour … Read more
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine booster shot that protects against South African variant will be ready by FALL, CEO says Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the company has been testing three coronavirus vaccine booster shots in parallel Two-thirds of the volunteers will be given two different dose of the third dose, which codes for the spike protein of … Read more
The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa may be better at breaking through the protection provided by the Pfizer vaccine, but the shot remains highly effective, Israeli researchers have said. The study updated its findings to state that the South African variant’s prevalence in Israel is very low and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine still appears to … Read more
Infections of South African and Kent coronavirus variants in those who have been vaccinated have already been recorded, NHS expert warns Cases of people getting South Africa and Kent variants after vaccine recorded Dr Susan Hopkins said vaccines acted as ‘primer’ for the immune system She said the cases were to be expected as vaccines … Read more
Infections of South African and Kent coronavirus variants in those who have been vaccinated have already been recorded, NHS expert warns Cases of people getting South Africa and Kent variants after vaccine recorded Dr Susan Hopkins said vaccines acted as ‘primer’ for the immune system She said the cases were to be expected as vaccines … Read more