George Hull

El Niño hot and dry conditions + US–Iran War fertiliser and fuel shortages + reduction in aid programmes funding from richer countries may add up to a perfect storm of food insecurity in Southern Africa. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…

NATIONAL ORDERS | Prof. Tulio de Oliveira is bestowed with the Order of Mapungubwe in Gold for his work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister Gayton McKenzie jokes that he was hoping not to see the Prof again.

There was a Guy in my class this semester who kept using the word ontologically wrong and one day my professor finally broke and said “Ontologically can be a tricky word to use so don’t feel like you have to” and then the guy stopped showing up for classes entirely

Yesterday's honours workshop on medieval and renaissance manuscripts of works by Classical authors (with a focus on Valerius Maximus) in the Grey Collection at the National Library of South Africa.

Buffeljags Dam legend, Kosie van Zyl may live a simple life, but it’s a life filled with freedom and adventure. In the Overberg he’s found the recipe for true happiness – his family, nature, and the things he’s made with his hands.

Arthur Rubinstein plays Chopin's Polonaise op. 53 in A-flat major at the infamous Moscow recital on 1 October, 1964.

@readswithravi “Conscience of the King” by Alfred Duggan.

Have you ever read a book by an author that was so good it made you want to read everything else they've written?

Museum manager at Genadendal Mission Museum, Judith Balie’s studies may have taken her across the world, but it’s her roots and passion for history that called her back home to the small town. Here, she brings the past to life to future generations and uplifts the community.

That time a 9-year-old skeptic named Emily Rosa debunked energy healing (a pseudoscientific alternative medicine treatment) and published in a top medical journal. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Is there a human nature? Can knowledge of it help us to live better lives? Tom Angier's new book develops an innovative theory of normativity and defends it against traditional and emerging challenges to #perfectionistethics, including #evolutionarybiology and #transhumanism

Incredible work of @nicd_sa, South Africa in sequencing the #hantavirus There has been excellent collaboration as @WHO works to coordinate efforts and actions of governments, experts around the world, the Ship to keep people safe. @DrTedros @Chikwe_I cnbcafrica.com/2026/two-cases…

It sounds like ready access to extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation machines may be key to saving lives when there is a Hanta virus outbreak. @kakape @ScienceMagazine science.org/content/articl…

The hard blow to universities will come from the erasure of many white collar jobs in the near future not AI plagiarism. Before AI risk of taking the loan to get a degree made sense & one hoped to make the cut, get a middle class job & pay back the loan. Much harder to bet on that now.

Can @PepsiCo afford NOT to relaunch the “old” ProNutro? @robrose_za @FinancialMail financialmail.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026-0…

Congratulations to Dr @OLEMOGOMOTSI for graduating last week from @UCT_news @ucthumanities with a PhD in Philosophy (dissertation: “Being a Self of One’s Own in the Social World: Developing a Hegelian Account of the Marginalised Self”)!

Unless we condemn this evil and support real democracy in the SADC region we will not be able to stop the immigration crisis. The ANC should not back Zanu PF and @edmnangagwa in this pursuit of turning Zimbabwe into the Mnangagwa Kingdom. Mugabe and Mnangagwa caused the immigration crisis in South Africa. Any ANC minister who speaks loudly about borders but whispers about the evil regime in Zimbabwe is not telling South Africans the truth.

Food for thought from @SealeWade of @huma_africa, @ucthumanities: dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

Military force to protect an FBI arrest is permitted without legislative approval under US law, but this very rationale creates a problem under the UN Charter, ratified by the US, because it’s not self-defence or approved by Security Council or Venezuela. nytimes.com/2026/01/03/us/…

Shortly after I'd been elected to the chair in 1953, the undergraduates gave me a party and we had a very jolly time. And they said, 'what we want is a book about law -- telling us what law is. Why don't you write one?' So I did. -- HLA Hart

🎉🇿🇦 HISTORIC: For 56 years Cape Town has celebrated the switching on of our festive lights. Last night a record 100 000 Capetonians came TOGETHER to enjoy our heritage and culture in the Mother City! THANK YOU CAPE TOWN 🎄👏