The time of year is fast approaching when billions of sardines will set off up the east coast, bringing a phenomenal array of sharks, whales, dolphins and other hungry creatures in their wake. Alex Patrick recounts last year's action near Port Saint Johns

Research has found modern pesticides damage the brains of bees so they can't move in a straight line, lowering their ability to forage and pollinate flowers.

Years of research and scientific study and all everyone is talking about is what she wore to her graduation. Anja Erasmus received her PhD in environmental science last week wearing a dress with her thesis printed on it.

South Africans can brace for even greater load-shedding misery this week if Eskom suffers another major breakdown this weekend as a pay strike adds to the utility's woes.

A rare WW 2 Christmas 1943 toffee tin - with the toffees still inside - given to South African soldiers by Jan Smuts and his wife Isie for Christmas during the war is expected to go for thousands of rands on auction.

In a family of nine struggling to buy food, the adults often go hungry so that the children have something to eat.

After a R499m upgrade by the Gauteng health department, the AngloGold Ashanti Covid field hospital on the West Rand has been closed and is being dismantled, having seen just a handful of patients since May.

Medical marijuana has officially gone mainstream, with three cannabis pharmacies opening this month — complete with their own doctor and chef.

Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is buckling under the strain of additional referrals from the emergency unit at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital and a pile of unpaid bills, placing the world’s third-largest hospital at risk of breakdown.

The police are looking to recruit 12,000 officers by the end of the year which, according to defence & military veterans minister Thandi Modise, will help bolster “stressed” units in the force.