Space & STEM: South Africa’s Rooibos in Space programme will send rooibos seeds to the ISS in October, linking plant science with classroom STEM in a first-of-its-kind local initiative. Public Health: A large sub-Saharan Africa trial (PediCAP) finds children with severe pneumonia can safely step down from IV antibiotics to pills once improving, leaving hospital about a day earlier without worse outcomes. Digital Infrastructure Governance: A new report argues SA is approving data centres too fast and treating them like routine real estate, even though they function like strategic national assets needing tighter oversight across energy, water, environment and cyber. Education & Research Equity: A study on historically disadvantaged institutions digs into whether liabilities or assets better explain research productivity, highlighting how apartheid-era structures still shape outcomes. Connectivity Troubles: Afrihost says a power loss to a Teraco cabinet hosting its core connectivity disrupted service for multiple ISPs, with tips on checking whether outages are local or nationwide. Agriculture & Food Systems: Solidaridad Southern Africa joins the International Fertiliser Association as an affiliate, aiming to connect smallholder soil and nutrition lessons to global plant nutrition policy. Safety & Policing: Western Cape’s new police commissioner, Lt-Gen Sizakhele Dyantyi, pledges renewed action against gangs, illegal firearms and extortion under SAPS’ Reset Agenda. Payments Tech: NjiaPay launches one-click payments for South African merchants, promising higher card-on-file conversions by reducing checkout friction. Local Science Discovery: Zimbabwe’s newly described Musango matusadonaensis dinosaur adds clues to how early dinosaurs diversified across southern African ecosystems.