Nelson Mandela and outgoing president Frederik Willem de Klerk.
Nelson Mandela’s dream of a great rainbow nation has been badly but not fatally undermined by corruption, violence and inequality.
Health professionals must work effectively in a team.
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Sharing expertise and experiences of different health and social care professionals can improve health care.
South Africa urgently needs to get its economy moving again.
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Half of South Africa’s population remain chronically poor, and the quarter in-between struggle to stay out of reach of destitution.
Millions of South Africans rely on taxis for their daily commute.
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Violence is very common on South Africa’s various taxi routes.
A well implemented science policy can transform a country’s economy.
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South Africa’s White Paper doesn’t outline how science, innovation and technology can improve ordinary people’s lives.
Community workers are key to transforming health services and the well-being of communities.
South Africa has the potential to improve primary health care.
Women Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Canada last year.
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South Africa has a long history of women at the helm of its foreign affairs ministry but this hasn’t translated into a gender balanced foreign policy environment
Professor Greta Dreyer, head of the Gynaecological Oncology Unit at the University of Pretoria, being interviewed by SABC TV.
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The new White Paper can help scientists understand better why public engagement is crucial.
Lessons learned from the threat of Cape Town’s “Day Zero.”
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Cities need to pay attention to how extreme weather events effect their resources.
Understanding how people move through job sectors is crucial.
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Little is known about how many people transition between the informal and formal sectors, a phenomenon called “churning”.
Speaker of Rwanda’s Chamber of Deputies Donatille Mukabalisa on international women’s day. Rwanda is a trend-setter in female representation.
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In many African states power is concentrated in the executive branch. That’s why women’s representation in cabinet matters.
A barman using candle light as another rolling blackout affects large parts of South Africa’s biggest city, Johannesburg.
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South Africa isn’t having an honest debate about proposals to fix its power utility Eskom, and the role that renewables might play.
A mentor works through a problem with a pupil at one of Makhanda’s schools.
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Universities have both a responsibility and a degree of potential influence on public schooling that set them apart and impose a special duty of leadership.
New research holds promise of a shorter treatment course for people with drugresistant- TB.
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New research shows that the treatment of drug resistant-TB can be reduced from the current duration of 20 to 24 months to less than a year.
X-rays, CT scans or MRIs may be necessary to detect TB in organs other than the lungs.
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TB outside the lungs accounted for 14% of TB cases recorded globally in 2017.
Once cubs in captivity get too big to be stroked and cuddled by tourists, they’re sold into the canned hunting and Asian bone trade industries.
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While the international conservation community unites against the captive breeding of big cats in South Africa, the government stalls.
An elephant faces down a car full of tourists.
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Wildlife tourism is a million dollar industry, but do we know enough about how wildlife feel about tourists in their habitat?
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Why it's important South Africa doesn't ignore sexually transmitted infections.
Often students plagiarise because they don’t understand how to write in an academic setting.
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These programmes allow institutions to claim they’re doing something without really tackling the issues that lead students to plagiarise.
A community health worker interacting with children in a village South Africa’s Limpopo province.
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Community-based HIV programmes helps improve access to health care.