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Lightning is both beautiful and terrifying - and it can be extremely dangerous. In the latest article from our Curious Kids series, which sees experts answering children's questions, Jasper Knight explains how lightning forms and how to keep safe when it strikes.
A thriving population of wild cats has been discovered at an industrial site near Johannesburg. The finding shows that industrial sites - a habitat long thought to be detrimental - can be a safe haven for wild animals. Sam Williams and Lourens Swanepoel outline how a team of scientists learnt about servals that call the petrochemical plant home.
As far back as colonial times musicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been sucked into patronage networks. It’s unclear whether this will change when President Félix Tshisekedi takes over. Either way Congolese musicians likely have to accept the patronage of the powers that be, or face the consequences, writes Thomas Salter.
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Jasper Knight, University of the Witwatersrand
There are many reasons to be careful when there's a big storm. But there are also ways you can protect yourself to avoid lightning.
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A serval captured on a camera trap at an industrial site in South Africa.
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Sam Williams, Durham University; Lourens Swanepoel, University of Venda
A high number of carnivores have been discovered at a huge industrial site in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Lexxus Legal is a hip-hop artist and at the forefront of the activist movement in the DRC.
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Thomas Salter, University of Edinburgh
The intertwining of the market, state and society has continued to see itself expressed through music in the DRC.
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Politics roundup
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Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa needs to make life as uncomfortable as possible for members of Zimbabwe's government.
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Richard Calland, University of Cape Town
The state capture inquiry is a remarkable political as well as legal event.
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Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg
The argument isn't whether African democracies are better than those in the West. It's simply that the idea of "real" and "not yet real" democracies expresses a colonial mentality, not reality.
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Luka Kuol, Africa Center for Strategic Studies
The uprising in Sudan has weakened the authority of President Omar al-Bashir and political Islam in the country.
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Looking at Nigeria
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Tolu Olarewaju, Staffordshire University
There is a huge amount of secrecy around the budgeting process at every level of the Nigerian government.
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Stephen Onyeiwu, Allegheny College
Most of the things Nigerians complained about in 2015 are still unresolved -- unemployment, poverty and economic disempowerment.
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Podcasts
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Ozayr Patel, The Conversation
Taking a look at the interesting world of the South African Astronomical Observatory.
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Ozayr Patel, The Conversation
Vertical farms have the potential to feed many on the African continent.
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