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South Africa: Innovation

Homegrown innovators are facing a brain drain and battling a funding squeeze. Yet South Africa has launched a cutting-edge radio telescope that scans the universe, opened ATM-style medicine dispensers and tackled Cape Town’s drought with clever water-saving devices

South Africa ‘frontier vibe’ still drives advances
Homegrown innovators fight brain drain and find ways to bypass a funding squeeze
Cape Town’s garage inventors who beat the drought
Threat of severe rationing inspires flood of water-saving ideas and devices
South Africa’s drug ATMs offer formula to treat chronic illness
Dispensing machines in malls save time and ease pressure on health system
MeerKAT telescope puts South Africa at forefront of astronomy
Project to examine far-distant galaxies also brings benefits closer to home
South Africa’s entrepreneurs create jobs and reduce inequality
Initiatives to assist small businesses will help tackle high unemployment
South African miners modernise to dig industry out of a hole
Sector turns to technology to improve efficiency while preserving jobs

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