The Alternative BreakfastProf Nigel Bennett joins Alternative Breakfast to unpack a remarkable University of Pretoria discovery showing how the naked mole-rat queen uses a chemical scent to suppress reproduction and maintain social order, opening a fascinating conversation about evolution, power, communication, African science and what this discovery could eventually mean for human medicine
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Nco Dube examines the growing tension between political leadership and the independence of South Africa’s legislatures, asking what happens to parliamentary accountability when the person presiding over the legislature becomes an active political player.
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Dr Brittany Kesselman explores whether the plants we dismiss as “weeds” could actually hold nutritional, ecological and cultural value — and what their disappearance tells us about indigenous food knowledge and the way we have come to define what counts as food.
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As National Wills Week encourages South Africans to put their affairs in order, we reflect on what it really means to leave a legacy — and whether a “free” will gives families freedom, protection and clarity or simply begins a more complicated conversation about what happens after we die.
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