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While restrictions on civil and political liberties may be necessary to protect lives, human rights law requires that they go no further than what’s strictly necessary to achieve this goal.
Teachers still hold the key to children’s learning and no keyboard or screen can replace their role.
Through his work, the Argentinian cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon, known to all as Quino, engaged in pointed social critique on a range of topics that are even more relevant today.
Emergency relief measures were operational for six months and are due to end soon. But the impacts of COVID-19 will be felt long after.
South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
Many political issues in the 2020 US election are domestic. But black resistance to white supremacy has long had global repercussions.
Zimbabwe’s Education Amendment Act of 2020 is a step in the right direction, but more still needs to be done.
That none of his collections were published in apartheid South Africa testifies to the police state’s censorship.
There needs to be greater clarity on the nature of the crisis for an informed and meaningful intervention.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi deserves better than being dismissed as an apartheid stooge. But he deserves little praise as an advocate for human rights and civil liberties.
Citizens have been denied their right to elect officials at the grassroots and this has allowed the central government to maintain rigid control of the country’s regions.
Trump recently suggested that a vote for Biden would hurt God. Religion scholars explain what, in Christian theology, it would take to injure the creator.
A study shows that low-income communities and communities of color are bearing the brunt of the energy industry’s pollution in the region. The risks also extend to the unborn.
A two-dose coronavirus vaccine would mean we need to produce 12-15 billion doses. This is roughly twice the world’s current total vaccine manufacturing capacity.
This controversy shows that assessment is not neutral: the system used can clearly benefit some groups of pupils over others – it requires more than technical processes to ensure justice.
Given their ability to accept correction, children have a better claim to rehabilitation, reorientation and reintegration.
The polarisation of today’s political discourse has echoes of the intolerance that characterised the Puritan era and the French Revolution.
The court’s decision has wider implications for international criminal law.
It is a good time to ask how the travel and tourism industry has contributed to racism and how that can change.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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