FOR DECADES those leading the challenge against race labeling, the idea that all individuals occupy distinct race categories defined in law, and backed up by pseudo-scientific theories, for example the discredited multi-regionalist theory of human...
Its been 28 years since South Africa launched SunSat
SUNSAT, an advanced microsatellite developed by students at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, was launched by NASA from Vandenberg Airforce Base on a Delta II rocket in May of 1997. Its been 28 years since our first satellite. And 23 years since Mark Shuttleworth became the first South Afr...
How a Garage Idea Became Africa’s Electric Mobility Revolution
Beyond the Loony Toon Hate Parade
BEYOND the Loony Toon Hate Parade, will a movement to defend the world against militant theocrats and odious Jew-haters emerge? Those who are quick to label any defense of secularism in the Middle East (or at home) as an 'illiberal plot' against the very progressive values they claim to hold so d...
South Africa to Produce Its Own Fleet of MAN Electric Buses
South Africa is gearing up for a major step forward in sustainable transport with the introduction of a new fleet of locally built electric buses. The Paruk Group, which operates one of the country’s largest bus fleets with around 2,000 vehicles, has finalised a deal with MAN Truck & Bus to purch...
The Optimal Energy, Joule EV story
Excellent interview relates how the Zuma administration literally pulled the plug on a project that could have ushered in an era of South African EV dominance.