Cape Town, Feb. 7, 2006 (THE_HERALD) – EDUCATION Minister Naledi Pandor believes that maths and science teachers should be paid more because “if you have a scarce skill you must recognise it as such”. Addressing a media briefing, Pandor said in the drive to recruit more maths and science teachers “that is part of what we will proceed with”. The minister said the possibility of “full service bursaries” to recruit more teachers in scarce skills areas such as maths, science and African languages was being explored. |
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (UPI) -- It is important that poverty-stricken South Africa have it own space agency so the country can cooperate with other countries on science-related issues, according to Mosibudi Mangena, the country`s science and technology minister.
The minister, a former mathematician and anti-apartheid activist himself, says South Africa will have its own space agency by the end of 2006. Legislation is being drafted and will be submitted later this year.
The minister says space has become very important for communication, research and climate observation. South Africa already has the best star-viewing facilities on the vast African continent, with the Southern African Large Telescope, or SALT, officially opening in chilly Sutherland, inland of Cape Town, later this year.
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Indonesia (6 May 2005, NEWS24)- Many of us suspect it as we trudge to work in the morning, but scientists studying some of the last primitive tribes in deepest Borneo say they now have proof - modern life is, indeed, rubbish. A team of experts has spent months comparing the lives of the Punan people, who still live as hunter-gatherers in the forest of Indonesian Borneo, with those of tribe members who have been lured away by civilisation. Not surprisingly, many of the Punan's dreams are dashed on arrival in the big city, however the scientists say that even basics like food, health and quality of life also turn out to be much worse in town than the forest. |
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 Cape Town (5 May 2005, NEWS24)- Climate change in South Africa could see provinces such as Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng becoming malaria zones in the near future, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday. Van Schalkwyk was speaking at a media briefing in Cape Town marking the release of a SA National Biodiversity Institute report on the phenomenon. He said climate change would also have a profound impact on the country's agricultural sector, biodiversity and water supply. |
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 Bloemfontein (NEWS24)- A Free State University student's groundbreaking discovery could be used to clean up blocked arteries more efficiently in the future. Professor Lodewyk Kock of the department of biotechnology at Kovsies said on Wednesday that Olihile Sebolai made the breakthrough during his MSc studies this year. "He discovered a whole cascade of oily substances in a yeast that have the potential to be used as lubricants which can be used in the future to clean up blocked arteries," said Kock. |
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By Marietta Gross – Scoop Media Auckland.
Researchers have found that environmental poisons can significantly change the number of sperms which carry the male XY chromosome. Scientists from the Swedish University Lund http://www.lu.sehave identified a special group of environmental toxins which change the number of the sex determining Y-chromosome – the Y chromosome when matched with an X chromosome determines that the sex of the baby will be male.
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