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The Malawi court’s decision provides a roadmap for future challenges to the death penalty in other southern African countries.
German's commitment of €1.1bn for development projects in Namibia over 30 years is too cheap a price to pay for remorse.
Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
Implementing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in all African countries will require sufficient political will and support from civil society.
The escalation of the liberation wars across the subcontinent had an important impact on the beer industry.
The November 2020 local and regional elections have indeed put Namibia’s political culture at a crossroads.
By eliminating the less fit individuals over time, predation can drive the population to increasing fitness in terms of survival and reproductive success.
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Researchers are looking into why around 5,000 Cape fur seals were found dead on Namibia's coast.
The protests carried on for days and continue to simmer in a country whose social fabric has been torn by toxic masculinity and a violent colonial past.
Fracking in Botswana could have an impact not only the country's groundwater, but also that of Namibia and South Africa.
Locust outbreaks are driven by unusual climatic conditions.
Understanding fire history is crucial to designing effective fire management in order to maintain biodiversity and support the livelihoods of people.
Tourism ventures in a water-stressed region like southern Africa need to balance the needs of guests and staff with the needs of surrounding communities.
Images of white Namibian farmers and their workers and a collection of portraits by travelling black photographers form part of the early archive.
Communities who are the custodians of the knowledge associated with African traditional medicinal plants must derive a fair economic return from these natural resources.
Mason tirelessly sought to convince officials of the need to recognise and celebrate the African past, and the role that African people played in the making of modern South African society.
History shows that treatments and vaccines have been accessible to African countries only after the loss of millions of lives and typically years - sometimes decades - after developed nations.
The culture of remembrance in Germany is viewed by many as exemplary. But it has some grave shortcomings.
The hunger, frustration and desperation of ordinary Namibians should be first on the political agenda. But this isn't the case.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Political Science, University of Freiburg
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate and Development Initiative Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC 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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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Yarik Turianskyi is Manager of the Governance and African Peer Review Mechanism Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs and guest lecturer in African Governance and Eastern European Politics, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR)/Afrobarometer Assistant Project Manager for Southern Africa, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Conservation Social Scientist, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer: photojournalism and digital media, Namibia University of Science and Technology
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Senior researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
