There is no clear delineation of roles and responsibilities relating to the integration of clean water, sanitation, safe hygiene and nutritional status.
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Vice-chancellors from three South African universities unpack how the COVID-19 pandemic could alter the country’s higher education sector.
An historical perspective on the politics, dominance and conflicts over the dams on the Nile is useful.
With the right leadership, mindset and policies African countries can achieve, even exceed, the growth and development successes of Asian counterparts.
Changing social norms in a short amount of time is difficult, and a one-size-fits all policy is unlikely to have the desired effect.
Africa accounts for nearly 27% of the World Trade Organisation’s membership and 35% of members from developing countries, but an African has never run it.
Investments are starting to help grow the African continent’s science preparedness.
Kenya’s new internet balloons could help to get more Kenyans online and drive new industry.
An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
The magazine grew to be the largest circulation publication for black readers in South Africa, and expanded to include East and West African editions.
There is concern over the growing influence of non-regional players in decision making at the regional bank.
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South Africa is trialling a vaccine for COVID-19. Here's what you need to know about it.
There isn’t enough clinical research being done in Africa. This has had a lot of repercussions in terms of the timing when interventions become available and effective in high income countries.
Increased capital investment and productivity need not result in job losses. Government can use industrial policy to link investment incentives to job preservation and even job creation.
South Africa’s public health system has been allocated R21.5 billion more for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic but there’s no strategy to guide how it should be used.
The budget is one of the key tools that government has to effect meaningful change.
It will take a long time for the full economic impact of COVID-19 to be known, but a careful scrutiny of labour market outcomes over the next couple of months will shed some light.
South Africa’s testing and tracing has not been at a level needed to suppress the spread of COVID-19. It must now focus on containing opportunities for super-spreading and transmissions.
African policymakers should strenuously safeguard their right to choose from the widest possible range of technology options that suit their countries’ development needs.
Young black men are often viewed through a criminal lens. A new book based on an 11-year-long study of adolescent men in a South African township upends the stereotypes.
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Associate Director and Researcher at the Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Herpetology, Environmental Physiology and Physiology, Ecology and Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean of Research: Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand
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Science Communication Officer, GENUS, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, Finance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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GENUS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, School of Public Health, University of Gothenburg Sweden, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD student, Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher in Systems Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
