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ArticleElec­tions: Chronic water short­ages cast shadow over Durban busi­nesses

WATER out­ages last­ing up to four days have forced an uMh­langa guest house to refund guests and stop accept­ing book­ings dur­ing long week­ends, rais­ing con­cerns about the fin­an­cial con­sequences of unre­li­able muni­cipal water sup­ply for...

ArticleFood afford­ab­il­ity crisis: House­holds choose between cost and nutri­tion

ArticlePace­man Rabada ruled out of first Test

THE Pro­teas will not risk fast bowler Kagiso Rabada in the first Test against Aus­tralia at Kings­mead today. Play gets under way at 9.30am. Rabada has been mak­ing good pro­gress after sus­tain­ing a ham­string injury last month, but the team...

ArticleDALAI LAMA

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ArticleETh­ek­wini needs fun­da­mental reform to restore ser­vice deliv­ery

ArticleSwitch­ing on brain cells: the Nobel-win­ning sci­ence of opto­gen­et­ics

IN OPTOGENETICS, sci­ent­ists con­trol neur­ones by stim­u­lat­ing them with light — poten­tially unlock­ing break­throughs for con­di­tions such as demen­tia, depres­sion and blind­ness. Three sci­ent­ists won the Nobel medi­cine prize this week for...