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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.
No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
It seems that former president FW De Klerk continues to find it hard to accept that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
In his new capacity as President of South Africa, FW de Klerk directly experienced for the first time how the international community had abandoned its support for minority white rule.
The Chinese model of peace differs fundamentally from that pursued by western nations.
A survey of San ostrich eggshell beads - a common find at archaeological sites - paints a bigger picture of hunter-gatherers, herders and shifting cultural tradition.
An archive project is restoring the secret history of Namibia's resistance music culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s -- suppressed and censored during apartheid but now touring the world.
For the first time since independence, Namibia's ruling party has suffered electoral setbacks in the midst of economic and political crisis.
Namibia’s political stability so far has been vested in the dominance of Swapo. Those opposing its control face an uphill battle.
It's imperative that we understand what creates and sustains the delta for the future management of the system.
Critics who called the show featuring Scarlett Moffatt 'racist' need to look at their own prejudices.
Many of the most fundamental aspects of TB disease remain unknown. For example, after exposure to the organism that causes TB, why do only some people get infected and only some of those fall ill?
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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 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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Southern Africa lead, Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer: photojournalism and digital media, Namibia University of Science and Technology
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Professor of Conservation and Applied Resource Economics, University of Kent
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Professor, University of Stirling
