Staff members of an e-commerce company in Rwanda.
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Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
Learning recovery requires both in-school and out-of-school programmes.
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Researchers estimate that COVID-19 disruptions in 2020 set back the education system by five years.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela on his 91st birthday in 2009.
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The death of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2021 has triggered renewed frustrations over the elusiveness of a “new” South Africa.
Flourishing as a concept involves what it means to live a good life.
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People want to talk about how they conceptualise good health as much as they want to explain what caused them to become sick.
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Doctors and nurses fear arrests and being charged with culpable homicide even for minor mistakes.
South Africa’s energy sector is being guided by an outdated Integrated Resource Plan.
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South Africa’s biggest successes in the last year in relation to energy have been in regulatory matters.
There are large inequalities between those who have been vaccinated and those who have not.
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Income plays a large role in shaping the structural barriers people face in accessing vaccination.
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The sums aren’t adding for South Africa on either the spending or revenue side. It’s a problem that’s developed over time with no action being taken.
Vaccination rates in South Africa are sub-optimal.
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South Africa is still likely to experience periods of increased cases, smaller-scale outbreaks and even the development of new variants.
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Moody’s acquisitions are a setback for the development of alternative rating agencies to compete against the monopoly of the ‘big three’.
Smoke rises from a building set on fire at the height of looting and violence in South Africa in July 2021.
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As the July 2021 unrest and looting graphically showed, crime and lawlessness can debilitate and destroy government efforts to facilitate and support economic growth.
In the nineteenth century, improved breeds and new agricultural technology underpinned exports of ostrich feathers from South Africa.
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This book is a history of individuals, ideas and institutions that were at the fulcrum of important scientific developments.
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Saponins from plants can destroy viruses and other microorganisms in the same way commercial soaps and detergents do.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa will need political courage to introduce basic income support.
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Basic income support is not a question of government “being generous”. The money will be taken from employed citizens and the affluent.
Women have a valuable role to play across scientific disciplines - but can’t do this without proper support.
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Young academies, which generally represent early career scientists, fared far better than their senior counterparts - a promising sign for the future.
As the pandemic winds down, continual surveillance of wild animals is vital to ensure that it doesn’t switch to another sphere of life.
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A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 protocols should be extended to areas in which there is a human-animal interface such as zoos, wildlife sanctuaries and game farms.
The world needs game-changing tools to prevent more TB cases and deaths.
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Manufacturers and health systems have shown that vaccines can be quickly and effectively deployed when accompanied by keen political and financial commitments.
President of South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal Mandisa Maya has been recommended as the country’s next Chief Justice.
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The egregious failures in the Judicial Service Commission’s process have muddied the water and complicated the President’s decision-making.
A member of the Yansakai vigilante group poses with a gun in Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria.
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Aside from human rights abuses, vigilantes may be unreliable, poorly skilled, and lacking transparency and accountability.
After South African scientists sounded the alarm about the new omicron variant, countries around the world closed their borders.
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