By Shout-Africa – JOHANNESBURG – Versatile Physics Professor, Peter Barham of Bristol University UK, renowned for delivering edutaining lecture demonstrations in restaurants, bars, lecture halls and classrooms, on topics as varied as the physics of ice-cream and the conservation of the endangered African penguin will visit the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre from the 18 – 19 July to raise public awareness on the role and relevance of science in our daily lives. Winner of the 2003 Kelvin Medal (Institute of Physics) for his contributions to the promotion of public awareness of science, Prof. Barham will be performing the following Science Demonstrations... Continue Reading
Ziggy Marley The Show: ZIGGY MARLEY AFRICA UNITE CONCERT Venue: BASSLINE, NEWTOWN Johannesburg South Africa Date: 04 July 2010 Doors open: 19h30 Ticket price: R300 (limited to 800 tickets) Line up: Ziggy Marley backed by The Tidal Waves
By Janine Erasmus South Africa’s Rhodes University is hosting a three-day conference on journalism education in July 2010, with the theme Journalism education in an age of radical change. The second edition of the World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC2) takes place in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, from 5 to 7 July 2010. Hosted by Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies, the conference has almost 350 confirmed attendees from 42 countries across Africa and further afield. With thousands of the world’s media currently in South Africa to cover the 2010 Fifa World Cup, the conference is an ideal opportunity to... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa – WASHINGTON- What do newly declassified documents about weapons grade uranium and dual-use technology diversions from the US reveal about the role of espionage in building Israel’s secret arsenal? Did Israel’s proposed nuclear weapons sales to apartheid South Africa signal they are still for sale if the partner and price are right? Do FBI and CIA cover-ups of investigations into Israeli nuclear espionage signal official US government approval or political acquiescence? Did cooperating with Israel’s policy of “strategic ambiguity” ever make sense for the United States? Is the era of “nuclear opacity” now coming to an end? Are... Continue Reading
