Cultural Innovations

Shivani Talati | 01 November 2017 India: Heavy reliance on technology can prove to adversely affect the nature and society. We might have often heard our grandparents talk about the traditional techniques they undertook ...

Nyangani Tshabalala | 01 November 2017Appropriate technology is the technology that is designed to be “appropriate” to the context of its use, it therefore becomes the epitome of hope to its beneficiaries. The technology...

Lwando GoxoOn the 22nd of September 2017, the Science Students’ Association (Sci-SA) hosted Inkcubeko – a utamaduni. This cultural event was held at the Nelson Mandela University’s South Campus where a whopping 60+ stude...

Lindelwa Badi and Cleopatra Dube | 02 September 2017 A piece about SMMEs being the solution to STEMI’s unemployment and lack of jobs in general, by exploring new science and re-evaluating the so-called used up science to...

Moneleli Govuzela | 03 October 2017 It might seem as a challenging and/or frustrating task for one to come up with and/or mention any place of science, let alone an achievement made by Africa in science. However, this is...

Maboni Mmatli For far too long when many of us hear about Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), we immediately shift it from ourselves and picture some old white man in a lab, with a beaker filled with chemicals. ...

Cleopatra Dube |15 August 2017 Plastics have for years been and continue to be an environmental nightmare due to their nature of not being able to degrade in nature. So much so that a little over a decade ago, as a measu...

Maboni Mmatli Morago ga go thopa sefoka phadišanong ya South African Youth Water Prize (SAYWP), baithuti ba bararo go tšwa sekolong sa Lebeko Senior Secondary kua Phalaborwa Limpopo ba filwe monyetla wa go yo etela torop...

Maboni Mmatli Morago ga go thopa sefoka phadišanong ya South African Youth Water Prize (SAYWP), baithuti ba bararo go tšwa sekolong sa Lebeko Senior Secondary kua Phalaborwa Limpopo ba filwe monyetla wa go yo etela torop...

Maboni Mmatli In South Africa, the marula fruit (Sclerocarya birrea) – aka morula / mokano in local languages in the Limpopo province forms a very integral part of the people’s livelihood and identity. It is found growin...

Maboni Mmatli Yolanda Nkala and Kholiswa Ntshinga from Khayelitsha are young Science enthusiasts who won gold at the 2015 Annual Cape Town Eskom Expo for Young Scientists hosted at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The ...

Maboni Mmatli With clean and safe drinking water still as a challenge, two young female learners have innovated a water purification device that promises to bring relief to rural villages. Mpho Mashangoane and Ramasela R...

Maboni Mmatli Ramasela Mitchell Ramonyai and Mpho Emmarencia Mashangoane are the latest winners of HIP 2B2 3M Science, Maths and Technology innovation challenge. The two are 15 year olds grade 10 learners from Noordeland...

Maboni Mmatli From reincarnation movies and history channel documentaries, African people have and continue to be shown as people of communal farming practices. Chief amongst the many practices is farming with livestock ...

SOUTH AFRICA, like many other developing countries, has a challenge when it comes to water and sanitation. These challenges include but are not limited to poor waste removal and clean drinking water. Because of the forme...