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Oil and gas exploration pose a threat to the Okavango River Basin water resources. The Namibian and Botswana governments need to properly assess the risk of contamination.
Immigration policy is so highly politicised that the South African government seems afraid to move.
The sites provide a rare tangible record of the international solidarity that existed during the Cold War.
Africa contributes less than 1% of research worldwide on movement behaviours in children. This means that research on movement behaviours has largely excluded over 16% of the world’s population.
To what extent should the costs of protecting globally valued rhinos be carried by their local custodians?
How Swapo and the ANC respond to any further decline in electoral support will define the future of democracy in both countries.
Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and under appreciated part of his legacy
He failed to understand that the struggle for justice and freedom in southern Africa was changing the world - and diplomacy itself.
The genocide of the Herero people lives on in today’s Namibia and Perivi Katjavivi’s film illustrates this.
Archaeological discoveries show the different options that have solved human problems over time.
Simply put, southern Africans are experiencing heat stress more often than in 1979.
The findings suggest that poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and levels of local human development are higher.
The erasure of indigenous people living in Windhoek before the German colonisers arrived has angered activists.
External changes, including the end of the Cold War, helped lead to the ending of apartheid. Gorbachev played a major role in that process.
Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.
Legal hunting helps rhino conservation for biological and socio-economic reasons.
With a growing number of younger Namibian voters born after independence, the struggle narrative became increasingly anachronistic.
Namibia’s refusal to condemn Russia undermines the credibility of its claims to support sovereignty, territorial integrity, and self-determination of all nations.
Saponins from plants can destroy viruses and other microorganisms in the same way commercial soaps and detergents do.
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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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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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University of Cape Town
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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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Senior Lecturer Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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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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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
