Retrain your brain to like healthy food

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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

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To rehabilitate mines, taxpayers will have to dig deep, says environmentalist.

Johannesburg Zoo, then and now

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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

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Climate warming trends will affect our weather, say scientists.

Dead babies found at dump

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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

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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’

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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

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Putrid smells, dirt and murder is just some of the dangers lurking outside the Johannesburg High Court.

Jub Jub keeps on fighting

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Despite being sentenced to 25 years, Jub Jub is still trying to convince the courts he should be allowed out.

Money down the drain

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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

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Theresa Taylor explores how damage to SA’s rivers leads to health problems.

Where SA’s water goes

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Theresa Taylor looks at the evolution of water use in South Africa.

Lightning moulded our mountains - study

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The Drakensberg gets its angular points, not from erosion or temperature, but from the strike of lightning bolts.

Habitat crucial to chicks’ survival

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After nearly two decades of effort, South Africa’s first wattled crane chick has been bred in captivity.

Storing fracking water ‘not practical’

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Treating wastewater from fracking could pose significant challenge, says study.

Oil giant issues renewables warning

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"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

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Someone carefully removed the glass from Nelson Khumalo’s bedroom window, climbed in and shot him 18 times.

SA vulnerable to climate change - scientists

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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’

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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

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“It’s the way you bring them up, if pit bulls could buy you flowers they would. ”

Puzzle of dead man with nine names

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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

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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

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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

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Advertising execs have brainstormed the catchiest way to combine the numbers 67 and 94.

HIV testing kit recall ‘no cause for alarm’

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World health body to review quality-control mechanisms and procedures.