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Thursday, May 22, 2025

#PoeticLicence: How SAA got its wings back

The probabilities for the transition from a shack to a cockpit are close to those of us being colonised again.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

SA Fashion Week designers prioritise calm, comfort, colour in latest collections

The Covid-19 pandemic, which has spread to every corner of the globe, has revolutionised the fashion industry and forced designers to adjust to the new realities imposed by the global health crisis.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

#PoeticLicence: If you are reading this, take it as a reminder of the cleansing that we need

The heavens are embarking on a mission to cleanse us with a baptism of heavy rains and thundershowers.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Warming temperatures, urbanisation, could lower rates of malaria and increase outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases - research

Climate change is going to rearrange the landscape of infectious disease, said Stanford biologist and study lead author Erin Mordecai.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

More creatures susceptible to impacts of climate change than decades ago-study

Every species currently on Earth is the survivor of a “fiercely competitive, treacherous and arduous natural selection contest spanning millennia”.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

’Day and night we smell it’: Sewage spills make life hell for Deneysville residents

Refengkgotso and Deneysville residents demand urgent intervention from authorities.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Experts’ letter calls for action to save cetaceans

Cetacean populations are slipping closer to extinction because of numerous interacting factors, including chemical and noise pollution, loss of habitat and prey, climate change and ship-strikes.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Collisions and electrocutions on power-lines are a major culprit in vulture declines

Unfortunately, vultures are now at risk of disappearing from the African landscape

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

#aTypicalInterview: Wheelchair tennis star Kgothatso KG Montjane would love to take on Naomi Osaka

She is South Africa’s top wheelchair tennis star and is ranked number seven in the world among her female compatriots.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

’Gross cruelty’ towards the consignment of sheep and cattle headed for the Middle East

The NSPCA said it documented numerous contraventions to the Animal Protection Act.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Government's 10-year plan to build SA's resilience to changing weather patterns

Cabinet has approved a 10-year plan on how to build the country's resilience to changing weather patterns that threaten to widen the gap between rich and poor.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Advancements in sexual assault case against former Bryanston school coach

The accused failed in his bid to have the case thrown out of court.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Feathers flying over the fate of flamingos housed at Gauteng facilities

Around 200 rescued juvenile birds await repatriation to Kamfers Dam.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Delay in irrigation pipe repairs leaves birds at the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens high and dry

The repair of the pipe at the waterfall needed specialists and experienced service providers due to the position of the pipe.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Overfishing drives fishers to take sharks

The huge number of petroleum platforms is also a major constraint to artisanal fisheries reducing the artisanal fishing zone by two thirds and polluting coastal waters.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Chinese community demand justice over couple who were gunned down in Joburg CBD

Zhi-wei Zhong and his wife Xuejie Hua were gunned down in the Joburg CBD on the afternoon of August 13.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Consignment of reptiles smuggled from SA, hidden inside stuffed toys in a package destined for the US

Endemic to SA and nationally-protected, armadillo girdled lizards are a Cites Appendix II-listed species.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Joburg Zoo in tortoise trade saga

The Johannesburg Zoo, the report states, sold more than 700 leopard tortoises last year to South African Venom Supplies.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Why the Mauritius oil spill was a disaster waiting to happen

Authorities warned before MV Wakashio ran aground off the south-east coast of Mauritius.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

'The alcohol ban has turned us into criminals'

The mother of three, who is unemployed, started selling alcohol on the black market recently to help bring in an income.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Sewage can help scientists track Covid-19

Sars-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, is shed at relatively high titres in the stools of some individuals.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Locals angry over government’s inaction over Mauritius oil spill calamity

The oil spill “is likely one of the most terrible ecological crises ever seen on the small island country. ”

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Independent schools struggling to keep their doors open due to Covid-19 lockdown

Many independent schools are struggling to keep their doors open as parents, hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, battle to pay school fees.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

75% of pandemic-related waste will end up in landfills or floating seas

Before the pandemic, plastic pollution was one of the biggest threats to the planet.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published

Four pangolins rescued in a week from illegal trade

In total, 11 people were arrested by a team of dedicated and specialised law enforcement officers.

Saturday Star News
Sheree Bega|Published