South Africa’s independent regulators have failed. Instead of introducing new ones, alternatives need to be found.
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Monitoring the timing of recurring biological events is key to understanding the effects of climate change.
Un colegio femenino de Pretoria ha pedido a sus alumnas que se corten el pelo. A partir de este hecho, la autora derriba mitos y prejuicios en relación con el pelo afro.
There are three important issues to consider when thinking about quakes: what causes them; how to prepare and plan for them; and, how to move on after a damaging quake.
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The sounds our ancestors made are important because they teach us about spaces and behaviour and rituals of the time.
South Africa’s new Copyright Amendment Bill could help the country take an important step in tackling its own “book famine”.
Faced with the same problem, South Africa is turning to the familiar toolkit to explain a recurrent problem.
South Africa and Nigeria need to lead policy debates on long term measures to address migration in Africa.
South Africa needs to develop low-cost housing solutions that are inherently comfortable and environmentally sustainable. Green roofs could be part of these solutions.
¿En qué lugar del panteón de los líderes nacionalistas africanos que llevaron a sus países a la independencia debemos colocar a Mugabe?
Where should we place Mugabe among the pantheon of African nationalists who led their countries to independence?
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It’s not enough to simply promote healthy eating and exercise without considering South Africa's very real environmental and structural constraints.
South Africa’s planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It’s deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
The election’s result endorses other evidence that trust in South Africa’s constitutional settlement and its political institutions is steadily declining.
Do African decision-makers and leaders approach crises differently from counterparts elsewhere in the world?
The more we know about the animals that lived during this time, the more we can start to comprehend how species react and recover after an extinction event.
South Africa’s data collection is constantly improving. That’s especially true when it comes to metrics that weren’t collected or were distorted for political purposes during apartheid.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
One of the most interesting developments to emerge from the disaster in Brazil is how investors can work together with mining companies and regulatory bodies to improve tailings management systems.
Health systems are generally structured around nation-states. Migration, especially across national borders, therefore leads to challenges.
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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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Professor of Urban Governance, 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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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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Associate Professor in the SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), 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
