Creating a buzz to save our bees
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The Department of Agriculture – working with bee associations in the Western Cape – has released a new strategy aimed at ensuring the sustainability of the bee population in the province. The honeybee is as important to agriculture as water, land and air. According to the South African National Biodiversity Institute, more than 50 different crops in South Africa are reliant on insect pollination. In the Western Cape, 50% of commercial bee keepers’ revenue currently
The future is now
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This week I saw irrefutable proof that the future we’ve been waiting for is already here. It has been sneaking up on us for the past ten years. But few things are as telling of a futuristic presence, that talking robots and cars that drive themselves. In fact, I grew up day-dreaming about one day owning a car that could do all the wonderful things that Michael Knight’s black Trans-Am could do. Besides being able
