Retrain your brain to like healthy food
New research shows it may be possible for overweight people to retrain their brains to prefer healthy low-calorie foods.
Gauteng’s acid mine water time bomb
To rehabilitate mines, taxpayers will have to dig deep, says environmentalist.
Johannesburg Zoo, then and now
When Johannesburg Zoo opened, if you wanted to visit but had no money, you could make a different sort of donation.
Warm seas could bring cyclones to SA
Climate warming trends will affect our weather, say scientists.
Dead babies found at dump
A security guard found the bodies of two babies wrapped in the same plastic bag at a rubbish dump in Joburg.
Tracking data leads to cops’ arrest
It was Fahim Essack’s word against two cops’ - but now tracking data from the officers BMW appears to fit the victim’s story.
‘Cops stole R500k from me’
A man has opened a docket with police, claiming that metro police officers robbed him of more than R500 000 and threatened to shoot him.
Crime and grime plagues Joburg court
Putrid smells, dirt and murder is just some of the dangers lurking outside the Johannesburg High Court.
Jub Jub keeps on fighting
Despite being sentenced to 25 years, Jub Jub is still trying to convince the courts he should be allowed out.
Money down the drain
Department of Water says fixing growing infrastructure problems will cost hundreds of millions over next few years. Theresa Taylor reports
The invisible killers in our water
Theresa Taylor explores how damage to SA’s rivers leads to health problems.
Where SA’s water goes
Theresa Taylor looks at the evolution of water use in South Africa.
Lightning moulded our mountains - study
The Drakensberg gets its angular points, not from erosion or temperature, but from the strike of lightning bolts.
Habitat crucial to chicks’ survival
After nearly two decades of effort, South Africa’s first wattled crane chick has been bred in captivity.
Band hits more than Skin deep in SA
The adoring crowd followed Skunk Anansie frontwoman Skin’s every command in a show that rocked Newtown.
Storing fracking water ‘not practical’
Treating wastewater from fracking could pose significant challenge, says study.
Oil giant issues renewables warning
"What's it going to be? Fear of fracking or more reduction of global energy emissions?" This was the message from BP.
Sleeping man shot 18 times
Someone carefully removed the glass from Nelson Khumalo’s bedroom window, climbed in and shot him 18 times.
SA vulnerable to climate change - scientists
Humans are causing climate change that is going to alter South Africa’s weather in decades to come.
‘You never know if your child might need it’
JC Koster lived less than three months, but he saved two lives. “He touched more people’s lives in two and a half months, or one day ...
Activists speak up for abused pit bulls
“It’s the way you bring them up, if pit bulls could buy you flowers they would. ”
Puzzle of dead man with nine names
One corpse. Nine names, but no identity. This is the conundrum cops were dealing with when they tried to identify a dead man.
Cops, robbers in gun battle
An armed robbery at an electronics store at Fourways Mall ended in a dramatic crash with a taxi and the recovery of a stolen safe.
Pippi goes home on a weekend pass
For the first time in more than seven months, little burn victim Pippi Kruger, 3, has spent a night in the same house as her parents
Some twisting the spirit of Mandela Day
Advertising execs have brainstormed the catchiest way to combine the numbers 67 and 94.