Throughout the entire period, central political power has been almost absolute.
A Boxing Day Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Our research project sought to investigate the capacity of professional sport to communicate environmental issues and awareness.
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Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in North Africa.
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Study suggests that the UN’s own principles sometimes prevented it from living up to its objectives
A new short drug treatment for tuberculosis, called BPaMZ, is showing promise in trials.
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We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
Asking questions can create new ways of teaching and learning.
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It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
In a technology-driven and interconnected world, the speed of creation and dissemination of knowledge makes it even more central to economic growth that it was fifty years ago.
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria