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Samara Private Game Reserve employs nature’s smallest guards
By Travel reporter 22h ago Share this article: ShareTweetShareShareShareEmail Bees will save key tree species at a South African game reserve. The move by Samara Private Game Reserve will help animals from tearing down trees. The game reserve in the Eastern Cape will use “nature’s smallest guards”, which is a widely used weapon in the conservation […]
Tazne van Wyk: Main suspect arrested in Eastern Cape
A 54-year-old man by the name of Pangaker Moyhdian, believed to know the whereabouts of missing Tazne van Wyk, has been arrested in the Eastern Cape following a two-week search by Western Cape police. Eight-year-old Van Wyk went missing on Friday 7 February. She was last seen by her father in Claire Street, Connaught Estate, […]
Central Karoo still clear as Western Cape Covid-19 cases rise to 348
Winde praised the community of the Bo-Kaap, on the edge of Cape Town city centre, for setting up its own Covid-19 response team. “This team, together with proactive and open family of a patient, was able to alert the community to a positive test in a way that was informative and did not stigmatise the […]
PAN AFRICAN RESOURCES PLC – Update regarding the 21-Day Covid-19 Lockdown and impact on Group operations – SENS
Update regarding the 21-Day Covid-19 Lockdown and impact on Group operations: Update regarding the 21-Day Covid-19 Lockdown and impact on Group operations Pan African Resources PLC (Incorporated and registered in England and Wales under Companies Act 1985 with registered number 3937466 on 25 February 2000) Share code on AIM: PAF Share code on JSE: PAN […]
Koppie Loskop, Karoo Basin [image]
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Tazne murder: Alleged killer’s family getting death threats, one relative doused in petrol – report
A relative of alleged child killer Moyhdian Pangarker, who gave him a place to sleep shortly before murdered Tazne van Wyk went missing, has said he is getting death threats and was attacked by someone who tried to set him alight, a Cape Town publication reported on Friday. According to the Daily Voice, Stanley Adams, 67, […]
In Earth’s largest extinction, land animal die-offs began long before marine extinction: New dates for fossils indicate land animal turnover extended for hundreds of thousands of years
New ages for fossilized vertebrates that lived just after the demise of the fauna that dominated the late Permian show that the ecosystem changes began hundreds of thousands of years earlier on land than in the sea, eventually resulting in the demise of up to 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species. The later marine extinction, in […]
Cops were scared to search house where Tazne murder accused was seen, Cele told
Police officers were allegedly too scared to search a property pointed out as a potential hiding place of Moyhdian Pangarker when he was sought for the disappearance of Tazne van Wyk, her grieving mother told Police Minister Bheki Cele on Wednesday. Carmen van Wyk said that after eight-year-old Tazne disappeared on February, 7, one of […]
SANSA And SARAO To Commission The Digital Earth South Africa Data Cube
Data analysts have long encountered challenges in the interpretation of large datasets for use in decision-making. With the advent of data cubes in recent years, the burden on analysts has been alleviated through reliance on multidimensional arrays of values represented in the form of a data cube. In light of these developments, discussions are underway […]
Our health is our humanity – Ginkgo Agency
Coronavirus has all but brought the world to its knees. Countries are under lockdown. People are being quarantined. Stock markets are falling. Life as we know it has been fundamentally altered, requiring a recalibration of actions and behaviours, both large and small. This global crisis has placed our human fragility into stark focus. Who are […]
SOUTH AFRICA: Government releases ZAR25M for drought mitigation plan in Western Cape
By Inès Magoum – Published on March 25 2020 / Modified on March 25 2020 The Western Cape Province is benefiting from a South African government contingency plan to deal with drought. It consists of a 25 million rand ($1.42 million) package to support agriculture in the Central Karoo and Garden Route districts. The Western […]
*PAN AFRICAN RESOURCES PLC – Announcement regarding South African 21-Day Lockdown and suspension of 2020 Production Guidance – SENS
Announcement regarding South African 21-Day Lockdown and suspension of 2020 Production Guidance Pan African Resources PLC (Incorporated and registered in England and Wales under Companies Act 1985 with registered number 3937466 on 25 February 2000) Share code on AIM: PAF Share code on JSE: PAN ISIN: GB0004300496 (“Pan African Resources” or “the Company” or “the […]
South African government declares national state of disaster due to drought
The declaration of a nation-wide state of disaster that appeared yesterday in the Government Gazette has taken agricultural organisations by surprise, given that large parts in the east of the country recently received good rains. In a statement Agri SA, an agricultural industry association said: “The rationale behind this national disaster declaration remains unclear due […]
Our system failed Tazne, says Bheki Cele at young murder victim’s funeral
The criminal justice system failed murdered Tazne van Wyk, Police Minister Bheki Cele said at her funeral in Cape Town on Saturday. Addressing mourners in Elsies River, Cele said government needed to relook the country’s laws. “Our system failed Tazne van Wyk,” he said, metres away from her little white coffin. “Some laws are too […]
SA telescope engineers submerge computers in oil to protect them from the sweltering Karoo heat
Radio telescopes are located in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, and their hardware systems need to survive the elements. IronHive, developed as part of SA’s giant MeerKAT telescope, is a collection of computer processors, each the size of a credit card, encased in an oil-filled container. This is one of a number […]
Moehydien Pangaker charged with murder of 8-year-old Tazne van Wyk
By Norman Cloete and Staff Writer Feb 21, 2020 Share this article: ShareTweetShareShareShareEmail Cape Town – Moehydien Pangaker was on Friday charged with the kidnapping and murder of eight-year-old Tazne van Wyk whose body was found in a stormwater pipe in Worcester on Wednesday evening two weeks after she disappeared. The 54-year-old appeared at the […]
Lamola: Review of prison parole system is imminent
Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, has admitted that parole boards are given “flawed” data when needing to consider whether a prisoner should be eligible for parole. Lamola said on Wednesday that improving data on whether a prisoner would re-offend if released could be the key to improving the country’s parole policy. Lamola had convened an […]
Cape Town hotel offers self-isolation rooms for returning South Africans
“What we want to do is to secure some revenue and make the wheels turn, albeit a little bit slower.” He said an interest rate cut and a decision from municipalities to suspend payment of rates could help small businesses. “We have to battle through and knuckle down, I fear for the small business. They […]