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Written from the heart
Amid the invisible threat of Covid-19, a series of writing competitions looks set to spark creative spirit among learners missing out on classes. William Western reports. 12-year-old Wild Coast lad
Starlight express: night adventures among the turtles of Bhanga Nek
Climate change may be shifting turtle sex ratios. But you’ve got to go the distance to prove it. Natalie dos Santos on the hard yards and sweet pleasures of research
Local inventor breathes hope into Covid-19 battle
An inventor working day and night in his home garage during lockdown has come up with a cheap ventilator that has won a national competition and will now be assessed
Abundance during lockdown: A guide to growing food from scraps
You don’t need a lot of space and it needn’t cost you a cent to grow tomatoes, lettuce, bok choy… and a bunch of other stuff at home. Diony Lalieu
Numbers man graphs hard as conspiracies thicken
Modelling the progression of the pandemic involves complex data and a wide range of disciplines. It’s a far from exact, often flawed, business, but the alternative is confusion and conspiracy
Lockdown far from child’s play in Klip
Lockdown in the Gauteng township of Kilp is a little bit like the popular street game of amathini. It’s rough and ready and there’s a real risk of being struck,
How lockdown threatened to spoil the party
It looked like lockdown was going to ruin a special birthday date for Nontuthuko Ngubane. Here’s what happened…
A lot on our plate:
Why the way we farm and eat must change
We’re travelling less and using less energy – good news for our efforts to rein in climate change – but we’ve still got far to go. Embracing nature may get
High stakes at Somkhele: Mine relocation row puts lives on the line
Shootings, threats and other violence have ratcheted up tensions in Somkhele where a mine extension has exposed deep fault lines in a poor community. Fred Kockott and Matthew Hattingh report
Tourism takes a pounding in lockdown purgatory
As tourism languishes in lockdown purgatory the communities it supports will be feeling the pain. Vital funding for conservation has vanished too, writes Dr Andrew Venter
