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South African scientists have identified two new breast cancer genes -- RAB27A and USP22 -- in Black women, marking the first GWAS of its kind on the continent. This breakthrough highlights the ...
Musk claimed Starlink isn't allowed to operate in South Africa because he's not Black. Here's what we know Tech billionaire Elon Musk was born in South Africa but emigrated at age 17 and ...
South Africa’s president won’t offer refugee status and a chartered airplane to Black Americans when he visits the White House on Wednesday. But if he uses the same standards Donald Trump used ...
As 14-year old Oratilwe Phiri whizzes past his father on a black and turquoise motorcycle at a racetrack east of Johannesburg, he has one goal in mind: to one day be the first Black person to race ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — In a country where racial segregation was once brutally enforced, South Africa’s new coalition government has brought a Black president and a white opposition leader ...
An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...
In pivotal elections on Wednesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa and his African National Congress party are struggling to keep the support of Black middle- and upper-class voters.
"Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I'm not black," the billionaire wrote on X.
New research has identified genetic variants associated with breast cancer in Black South African women for the first time ever.
Researchers in South Africa have unearthed 360 million-year-old fossils belonging to a newly described voracious fish species that preyed on our ancestors.
Sindiso Khumalo is ethereal; one can tell this by how she speaks about herself and her art. But it’s also impressive to describe her as the South African designer who built a decade-long fashion ...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk was born in South Africa but emigrated at age 17 and eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen.