Liberal Arts faculty member Gabeba Baderoon, who grew up South Africa during apartheid, has received international accolades for her third book of poetry.
9 March 2021 - Wits University
Scientific evidence shows specialised features in the large brains of whales and dolphins that are adapted for heat production.
Whales and dolphins have the largest brains on the planet, some of them weighing over eight kilogrammes, six times heavier than the average human brain.
These mammals’ huge brains have often been cited as evidence of them being highly intelligent; however, does their large brain size mean they have the same mental – or better – capabilities as humans?
Scientific evidence from a study led by Professor Paul Manger from the School of Anatomical Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits University), indicate that whales and dolphins’ large brains lack the diversity, flexibility and adaptability in their mental processes and behaviour that humans have, and that their large brains instead evolved to keep these brains warm in icy oceanic temperatures. This research has been publi
Christian Community Raises Alarm Over Mozambique Conflict Thu 04th March 2021 | 06:20 PM
JOHANNESBURG (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th March, 2021) An umbrella group of Christian churches in southern Africa has sounded the alarm over a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the north of Mozambique, where a quarter of the population has been displaced by what the UN calls a perfect storm of fighting and natural disasters.
The Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa met by video this week to discuss the situation on Mozambique s Cabo Delgado, a resources-rich region that has been under siege by Islamist insurgents since 2017. The UN estimates that over 530,000 people have been displaced by December, many of them in the past few months. More than 1,300 civilians have been killed.
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Debretsion Gebremichael, the leader of the Tigray People s Liberation Front, is believed to have retreated into the mountains EDUARDO SOTERAS Text size
Debretsion Gebremichael, the leader of Ethiopia s dissident Tigray region before he was ousted in a federal military offensive, once ran a guerrilla radio station before rising through the ranks to head the Tigray People s Liberation Front (TPLF).
It has been nearly two weeks since Debretsion a top target of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed s campaign against the TPLF leadership has issued any kind of statement.
After three weeks of fierce fighting, Abiy claimed victory in late November and said federal forces had Debretsion and other TPLF leaders in their sights but he remains on the run.