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The relationship between Pretoria and Moscow was forged in the apartheid era with the then Soviet Union giving support to banned ANC fighters.
Tigers exist in South Africa because they’re being intensively farmed for commercial trade in live individuals or their body parts.
Installing enough solar panels and battery storage to see a household through a week without sunshine isn’t yet financially possible.
South Africa’s world-leading wage inequality has as much to do with what bosses are doing as it does with how educated or experienced workers are.
The essential ingredients in achieving the development goals are partnerships combined with smart thinking about how to deploy 21st century technologies.
Volunteering can help people gain soft skills, improving their labour market prospects.
The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
Year after year, challenges have distracted the country from its agricultural expansion goals.
Under South African law, girls have the right to continue their schooling through and after their pregnancies.
By adapting and applying existing policies, South Africa can protect and restore its critical ‘blue carbon’ sinks.
Harmonising tariffs and standards is a big step.
It is useful to recognise why companies either restrict or strengthen their sustainability efforts in response to a crisis.
Market-led microcredit innovations dominated by profit maximisation can harm the very vulnerable.
Eskom needs a new management team, this is clear. But the country also needs new leadership.
Consensus is the first step towards solving problems - but it’s been hard to reach.
Children who need help most tend to experience adversity throughout childhood. That continuing adversity muffles the benefit of improved early nutrition.
There are personal, environmental and structural factors that influence a patient’s ability to adhere to treatment.
Most beaches along Durban’s coastline have critical E. coli levels above acceptable safety levels and should be considered a public health hazard.
Services such as chemotherapy are only available in tertiary hospitals located in the country’s urban centres. Transport to these hospitals can be a barrier to care.
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Technology Management, University of Pretoria
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