By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Doctor administers a vaccineUdom Pinyo/Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 23 September Volunteers will be deliberately infected with the coronavirus in first challenge trials Healthy volunteers will be deliberately infected with the…
SAFA has endorsed an application called MySAFA that will help register a database of all SA amateur players and help them to be able to claim their FIFA transfer funds.It's estimated there are between $400 million (R6.7 billion) and $1 billion (R16.9 billion) in unclaimed FIFA Solidarity and training compensation funds.The spinoffs are that MySAFA…
Technology 23 September 2020 By Layal Liverpool We can harvest the windPeter Cade/Getty Images A small device can harvest energy from the breeze generated as you walk and could potentially be used to power your gadgets. The apparatus, developed by Ya Yang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues, takes advantage…
People dig up the road in a protest of service delivery. Residents complaining about the lack of water and electricity services, decided to block the R33 with stones, and dug up the road.Most of the communities in Umzinyathi were in the deep rural parts and it was therefore hard for them to deliver services as…
Health 23 September 2020 By Clare Wilson QR codes are used to scan in samples at a new testing centre in GlasgowAndrew Milligan/Pool/AFP via Getty images THIS month, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced an ambition to increase the country’s capacity for coronavirus testing to several million tests a day. Billed as Operation Moonshot, the…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…