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Why we need to decolonise the skies

Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph explores how rethinking way we look at the stars could improve our relationship with our own planet and make it a healthier place to live.

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When you can’t return home

Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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  • Cape Town, South Africa: part of the city. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Line drawing of the Burroughs Wellcome & Co. office, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Cape Town, South Africa: part of the city with Table Mountain and Lion's Head. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Ink sketch of Farmer Peck's refreshment station, on the road from Simon's Town to Cape Town, South Africa 1844.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: houses of parliament. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: Groote Schuur, a Dutch colonial house (the home of Cecil Rhodes). Photograph by Tempest Anderson, 1905.
  • Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis Rubiaceae. Cape jasmine - as erroneously believed to have come from South Africa. Distribution: China. Named for Dr Alexander Garden FRS (1730-1791) Scottish-born physician and naturalist who lived in Charles Town, South Carolina, and corresponded with Linnaeus and many of the botanists of his era. The fruits are used in China both as a source of a yellow dye, and for various unsubstantiated medicinal uses. Other species of Gardenia are found in tropical Africa and the roots and leaves have all manner of putative uses. Gardenia tenuifolia is used as an aphrodisiac, for rickets, diarrhoea, leprosy, gall bladder problems, toothache, liver complaints, diabetes, hypertension, malaria and abdominal complaints. It causes violent vomiting and diarrhoea. It, and other species, are used to poison arrows and to poison fish. Some native, muthi medicine, healers regard Gardenia as a ‘last chance’ medicine, given to patients when all else fails – the patient either dies or recovers (Neuwinger, 1996). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Free confidential voluntary counselling & testing (VCT) / City of Cape Town.
  • Get your free condoms here! / City Health, City of Cape Town.
  • "I've been taking AZT, 3TC and NVP for almost 4 years. I'm healthy and happy." / City of Cape Town, Medicins sans frontiers.
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