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How the Zebra got it’s stripes…
Read how Africa’s equine design serves a very practical purpose

This week The art of sustainable social business development Invent Africa goes to NBIA 2012 in Atlanta	We look at organizations that combine innovation with upliftment	Featured Video Solar light from plastic bottle Amazing! Watch video
Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Training to become an entrepreneur	Each year Grahamstown hosts Scifest, South Africa's national science festival. This year the theme is 'Science Rocks'. We'll be there covering the even, uploading video on a daily basis. Watch Scifest 2012 promo	On reflection Find out what happened at Scifest 2012

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01. Video introduction to Invent Africa

Watch this brief video overview of the concept behind the Invent Africa Project: Web, Mobile and television broadcast

1. From Kayak to PaddleYak...a novel invention

Johan Loots of Hout Bay has developed a kayak that combines the best features of sit-in and sit-on models.His hybrid design has set in motion a new international trend in Kayak design. The design feat...

11. The Qdrum revolutionary water transportation device

How did these women manage to move 500 litres of water over 3K? The QDrum – a simple and revolutionary way of transporting water. As revolutionary as the wheel...watch the video

12. Green Wind Turbine powers two schools in Cape Town

Earlier last year (2010) 15 high school students spent 9 weeks learning about energy conservation and how to build their own wind turbine, made from locally available recycled materials. After deve...

2 Litre Light Bottle

Add free light to your home using a 2 litre plastic bottle filled with water...

2. World's 1st Heart Transplant

Christiaan Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world’s first successful human to human heart transplant. He performed the world's first human heart transplant operation on 3 ...

3. Life saving invention

Inventors: Dr. Dave Woods & John Hutchenson Dr Dave Woods is a dedicated Cape Town Paediatrician who’s work focuses on the wellbeing of pregnant mothers and babys in rural areas. He and his team have...

4. SASOL Synthetic Jet Fuel

South African petrochemicals company Sasol has flown the world's first passenger aircraft using internationally approved 100% synthetic jet fuel, a milestone in the development of cleaner-burning alte...

5. Cybertracker

The Cybertracker is a hand-held animal tracking and positioning device. Designed originally for the San Hunters of the Kalahari Desert, it runs on a palmtop with built-in GPS. Instead of recording the...

South African born physicist Allan Macleod Cormack who, with Godfrey Hounsfield, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing the powerful new diagnostic tec...

7. Tellurometer

The tellurometer was invented by South African Trevor Wadley and is an instrument that measures the distance between two points to an accuracy of up to 3:1 000 000. The Tellurometer was far more accur...

8. Pratley Putty

South African Engineer George Montague invented Pratley Putty in the early 1960’s when he was looking for a glue and insulator that would hold components together in an electrical box.

9. Neil Turok Theoretical Physicist

Dr Neil Turok is an innovative and pioneering scientist, changing the way we look at the universe, time and creation. He has developed a cyclic model for cosmology, known as ‘M’ theory…

Adri de Beer interview

A business analyst at Sasol Chemcity's Social Enterprise Development, Adri explains Sasol Chemcity's involvement in the Ikageng project, and why they are passionate about it.

Adri de Beer Interview

Adri de Beer, Business Analyst for Sasol Business Ventures talks briefly about her presentation at the NBIA

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