South Africans need targeted and accessible interventions and counselling programmes.
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Adverse childhood experiences are associated with an increased risk of mental health problems in adulthood.
President Carter’s interest in southern Africa was crucial to keeping the peace.
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Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and under appreciated part of his legacy
Demonstrations against South African power supplier ESKOM in 2015.
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South Africa’s courts are likely to set a high bar in cases brought against the government’s most recent state of disaster declaration.
Wine remains among South Africa’s major agricultural exports.
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South Africa’s focus should be on maintaining smooth relations with critical export markets while searching for new ones.
Members of the African Christian Democratic Party protesting against the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa.
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The repeal of outdated apartheid-era laws would have a far-reaching, positive impact on individual sex workers’ health and well-being.
Pastors pray for former South African president and ANC leader Jacob Zuma.
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Perhaps the combination of religious rhetoric and secular laws is a winning electoral strategy.
Women around the world have adjusted to new working realities after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The pandemic affected working women in several spheres of life.
Mondli Gungubele, former minister in the Presidency, was in charge of intelligence.
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Having an intelligence service that is not fit for purpose means the country is vulnerable to security threats from within and outside the country.
Rapper AKA.
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Mass Country was intended to be AKA’s masterpiece, but he needed certified hit makers to get it there.
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South Africa’s minister of finance should have used the bailout of Eskom to fast-track its split and introduce the private sector into the electricity sector.
Students from the University of Johannesburg: finding jobs even for graduates is tough in South Africa.
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There’s a case to be made for combining cash grants and job-search assistance services.
Patrick ‘Ace’ Ntsoelengoe in action for the Toronto Blizzard.
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Major League Soccer is the most diverse league in the US. Its predecessor, the NASL, led the way.
The building blocks of the Giza pyramids contain trillions of fossilised remains of an ocean-dwelling organism called foraminifera.
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Fossils aren’t just pieces of the past that allow scientists to look backwards. They can play a role in modern policy decision-making, too.
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In hospitals, infection prevention and control cannot be met without a hygienically clean, and safe environment that has an adequate supply of clean running water.
Delegates at an African Union summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2022.
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Member states need to arrive at binding, transparent and enforceable priorities to see progress.
Green spaces provide benefits for people and nature. Photo by Ida Breed,
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South Africa needs to integrate urban green spaces as part of valuable infrastructure and provide framework for their sustainability.
A tractor ploughs a field in the Philippi Horticultural Area in Cape Town, South Africa.
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The work done by the campaign before, during and after the drought remains important for the food security of Cape Town
Women walk with their donkeys in Ethiopia’s Amhara region.
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The demand for donkey hides to produce ejiao has led to a shortage of donkeys in China and increasingly worldwide.
Tottenham Hotspur play Arsenal in a Premier League match in 2023, kit heavily branded.
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Many feel the money could be better spent developing local sport.
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These vibrant writers embrace the open road and claim spaces that were denied them during apartheid.