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Law of Succession

Dispute over life partnership status fuels legal battle for estate

Loraine Strydom and Kaamilah Paulse 15 Jul 2025

Family Law

Disturbing the dead for DNA testing? High Court rules

Anelisa Zungu and Kaamilah Paulse 4 Jul 2025

Medical Aid

Umvuzo Health turns 21:Sets benchmarks in South Africa's medical schemes

25 Apr 2025

Source: Institute for Molecular Bioscience.

Healthcare

Calls for private labs to solve South Africa's DNA backlog grow louder

14 Apr 2025

Health and well-being trends in 2025

Trends

Health and well-being trends in 2025

6 Feb 2025

Focus on cervical cancer in Women’s Month

Women's Health

Focus on cervical cancer in Women’s Month

Issued by CANSA 15 Aug 2024

Mourners as seen at the Central Methodist Mission, at the memorial service in honour of the Marshalltown fire victims, in Johannesburg, South Africa, 8 September 2023. Reuters/Shiraaz Mohamed/File Photo

Public Liability & Personal Injury

Inquiry blames Joburg authorities for neglect leading to deadly building fire

Tim Cocks 6 May 2024

Medical Aid

Fedhealth's new model of genetic testing is transforming precision medicine

10 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied.

Hospital Groups

Mediclinic Southern Africa expands into precision medicine

2 Feb 2023

All the 2021 Gauteng Accelerator Programme Innovation competition winners

Awards

All the 2021 Gauteng Accelerator Programme Innovation competition winners

25 Feb 2022

Cannes Lions

Warc reveals insights from 2021 Cannes Creative Effectiveness Lions winners

6 Aug 2021

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing can help scientific researchers. Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock

Medical Research

How South Africans can use their DNA to be good genomic citizens

Caitlin Uren 3 Dec 2020

SAPS Amendment Bill out for public comment

Legislation & Regulation

SAPS Amendment Bill out for public comment

30 Sep 2020

Do you know where your coffee comes from? The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of knowing about our supply chains. Here, a woman carries harvested coffee beans in a coffee plantation in Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique, in August 2019. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Supply Chain

The coronavirus pandemic requires us to understand food's murky supply chains

Cory Searcy and Pavel Castka 6 Aug 2020

Conservation and biodiversity - the upside of mine rehabilitation

Mining

Conservation and biodiversity - the upside of mine rehabilitation

5 Jun 2019

Contraceptives, could it be increasing the risk of breast, ovarian cancer?

Healthcare

Contraceptives, could it be increasing the risk of breast, ovarian cancer?

6 May 2019

How MSC's ecolabelling is tackling seafood fraud

Regulatory

How MSC's ecolabelling is tackling seafood fraud

25 Mar 2019

Babies to order. Andrew Crotty/Shutterstock.com

Medical Research

Those designer babies everyone is freaking out about - it's not likely to happen

A Cecile JW Janssens 14 Dec 2018

Geneway breaks DNA down to ABC in clever new television campaign

Advertising

Geneway breaks DNA down to ABC in clever new television campaign

Issued by Jenny Griesel Communications 24 Aug 2018

The risk of listeriosis lingers

Health & Safety

The risk of listeriosis lingers

Catia Folgore 17 Jul 2018

Tumelo Mojapelo, head of content at Flux Trends Analysis

Trends

#BizTrends2018: Mind, body and soul - holistic health is the theme of the year

Tumelo Mojapelo 9 Jan 2018

Defective product risk is an increasing peril for companies

CRM, CX, UX

Defective product risk is an increasing peril for companies

5 Dec 2017

Professor Vanessa Hayes, head of the Human Comparative and Prostate Cancer Genomics Laboratory at the Garvan Institute

Oncology

Exposing the prostate cancer genome through mapping

21 Apr 2017

Pap smear overtaken by HPV screening

Women's Health

Pap smear overtaken by HPV screening

12 Jan 2016

Awareness leads people out of the darkness of neurodegenerative disease

Neurology

Awareness leads people out of the darkness of neurodegenerative disease

10 Feb 2015

Stellenbosch to analyse DNA from Nigerian church deaths

Administration

Stellenbosch to analyse DNA from Nigerian church deaths

24 Oct 2014

Limpopo police nab alleged serial rapist

Law Enforcement

Limpopo police nab alleged serial rapist

12 Aug 2013

Human DNA in meat samples

Law Enforcement

Human DNA in meat samples

27 Mar 2013

Food scandals speak to trust more than science

Retailers

Food scandals speak to trust more than science

Gareth Ackerman 20 Mar 2013

Branding

SA's meat fraud and the betrayal of consumer trust

Issued by Ornico 12 Mar 2013

DNA test reveals breast cancer risk

Women's Health

DNA test reveals breast cancer risk

3 Oct 2012

Rhino CSI, a South African reality

ESG

Rhino CSI, a South African reality

9 May 2012

Paediatrics

New study offers hope for children with MPS I genetic disorder

3 Dec 2010

World travel trends spell opportunity for 2010

2010 FIFA World Cup

World travel trends spell opportunity for 2010

Dr Nikolaus Eberl 16 Nov 2009

Cardiology

Follow healthy lifestyle to overturn genetic predisposition to heart disease

23 Oct 2009

Film

Search for the Knysna Elephants at the Labia

14 Oct 2009

Healthcare

Genetic ancestry testing could spawn unwelcome societal consequences

22 Oct 2007

Retail Marketing

Top SA celebrities battle it out in anti-ageing contest

3 Aug 2007