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ViewSA researchers respond to HIV vaccine failure

Disappointing news, but unlikely to affect funding flows for vaccine R&D

ViewSA opens development-focused ideas ‘lab’

UN-backed centre in Pretoria aims to boost social development

ViewBroad support for South Africa in US copyright row

Support pours in for South African copyright law-change at crucial US meeting

ViewBlade warns of ‘university capture’ and corruption

Corruption one of higher education’s ‘most serious challenges’, South African minister says

ViewFormer NRF head defends researcher ratings

Rating system ‘transformed science in South Africa’, says Khotso Mokhele

View‘Drone academy’ opens in Malawi

A programme to promote the use of drones and drone data has opened in Malawi.

ViewSouth Africa’s research kit needs to be shared more equitably

Book says access to top equipment must include those outside traditional elites

ViewWhat 2020 has in store for South African science

South African researchers are right to look at the year ahead with trepidation

ViewThe African science decade that wasn’t

Ten years of hard-won progress has birthed a generation that dares to speak out

ViewSouth Africa: 2019 in review

Science gets a governance overhaul, but no funding windfall

ViewAfrica news roundup: 6-12 December

Germany backs health research in East Africa

ViewScience amendment bill to finally pass in 2020

Weary science committee ends year by sending contentious bill to Assembly

ViewAaaand they’re off!

Science and innovation jostled for position at South Africa’s end-of-year forum in Pretoria

ViewWhat is the 4IR anyway?

Fourth industrial revolution 'overcooked and overhyped'—and more from the 2019 Science Forum

ViewForesight exercise identifies nine priority areas for SA science

Critics say plan lacks focus and ‘out of the box’ long-term thinking

ViewTUT appears before Parliament, finally

Science and technology portfolio committee members remain unsatisfied

ViewSA launches national geospatial company

Public-private partnership designed to ‘demystify space for business’

ViewResist US pressure over copyright bill, Ramaphosa urged

Creative US industries are lobbying for SA sanctions should ‘fair use’ bill be passed

ViewNzimande: ‘We must bridge the gap between North and South’

South African science minister takes a swing at lopsided global science spending

ViewLarge classes and language barriers fuel SA plagiarism, trio claims

KwaZulu-Natal academics ‘feel relegated to security officers and investigators’

ViewTwo European research collaborations for SA

Ocean science and agriculture benefits from deals with Norway and France

ViewSA hosting of research integrity conference welcomed

Cape Town-based 2021 meeting will help Africa fight unethical practices, say NRF officials

ViewSouth Africa is on track building nanotechnology capacity

But racial and gender transformation remains a concern in the sector

ViewSA to partner Hungary on cars, water and lasers

‘Commonalities’ between economies will drive research partnerships

ViewTwo SA universities in top 100 health ranking

Thirty-four African universities appear in Times Higher Education subject ranking for health

ViewUS foundation backs SANBI data competition

Teams in Malawi, Rwanda, and Ghana will compete for prizes but more funding is available

ViewParliament fumes as TUT ‘gives it the finger’

No-show indicative of ‘culture of impunity’ at university, says committee chair

ViewSouth Africa to probe quality of PhD training

Doctoral numbers have increased faster than supervisory capacity at universities

ViewL’Oreal rewards first winners of SA programme

Five doctoral and two postdoctoral researchers share over R700,000 in total

ViewSouth African parliament ratifies SKA convention

But EFF denounces new body and says its adoption is ‘submitting to imperialism’