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Cities need to pay attention to how extreme weather events effect their resources.
Until then we need to get effective, accessible treatment for all who need it, while deploying the many prevention tools at our disposal.
Research shows that women in Africa are more likely to die as a result of complications related to C-sections.
In the past few decades, there’s been more critique of global knowledge inequalities and the global North’s dominance.
Community-based HIV programmes helps improve access to health care.
The lengthy nature of some of Africa’s wars is one of the main hindrances to ending the “refugee cycle”.
With the exception of Somali piracy, counter-measures have failed to stop transnational criminal networks from taking to the seas.
A progressive Afrikaans newspaper will be relaunched soon. But Vrye Weekblad can’t trade on its history alone. It will need to consider the challenges of the present and the future.
Eskom, South Africa’s power utility will be unbundled and receive financial support from national treasury. These are the next steps.
Female-centred health services are good, but they may detract from gender equality and men’s health.
Medical and Health Humanities conversations and collaborations about health are growing and gaining momentum in Africa.
Many of the crime prevention strategies South African President Cyril Ramaphosa proposed have been tried, with few positive results.
South Africa’s president has committed to structural reforms in the energy sector.
Education remains one of government’s key priority sectors yet it continues to be in a crisis.
Women are drastically under-represented in the science, technology, engineering and maths fields.
Fraudulent academic qualifications have increased dramatically in South Africa.
The False Bay ocean food chain in Cape Town began to change significantly in 2015 with the appearance of shark-eating killer whales.
Les systèmes d’approvisionnement en eau n’ont pas été conçus pour répondre aux évolutions météorologiques provoquées par le changement climatique. Il est désormais nécessaire de les adapter.
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Professor of Development Finance & Insurance, University of Cape Town
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Director of Sleep Science and associate professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer Department of African Studies and Linguistics, University of Cape Town
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Research Officer / EIDM Specialist, University of Cape Town
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Research Fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor Emeritus of Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Senior Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Water and Production Economics Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Institute of Marine and Environmental Law, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
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Climate Scientist and Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Consultant, University of Cape Town
