It’s time South Africa stopped stereotyping its young people as being disinterested and morally bankrupt and started engaging them.
Leaked information is the life blood of investigative journalists. But there are a few golden rules they should follow when reporting on it.
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When given leaked information journalists should check the information, consider alternative explanations, consider the political context and allow the people implicated a proper chance to respond.
Protesters march past the venue for the World Economic Forum on Africa 2017 meeting in Durban, South Africa.
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Many in the US are celebrating LGBTQ rights for Gay Pride Month. But data show that most countries, including the US, need to do much more to protect sexual minorities.
Children gather around a fossil skull at a South African museum.
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As an intellectual history of the disciplines of paleontology and paleoanthropology, Kuljan’s book is especially adept at narrating the interwoven connections between science and power.
The bad news keeps piling up for South Africa’s economy.
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Tackling the challenge of stunting in South Africa needs a convergence of science and policy along with better coordination at all levels of government.
A woman votes in Zambia. Beyond multi-party systems and regular elections, many countries resemble very little of true democracies.
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Democracy is in a parlous state in many countries in southern Africa. Autocrats hold onto power, while electorates have little to choose from at the polls.
There’s no effective treatment for Keratolytic Winter Erythema that causes skin to peel.
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South African geneticists and international counterparts have traced the origins of a genetic peeling disorder, Oudtshoorn skin, and discovered the mutation that causes it.
More must be done to develop mechanisms based on intrinsic motivations of committed, quality academics. It’s important to limit the harms currently being caused by rent seeking.
Rebel UNITA troops walk through a field twenty miles from the front line at Munhango, Angola April 29, 1986.
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For a military battle whose outcome is still hotly contested 30 years later, the impact was so remarkably clear – independence for Namibia, peace for Angola and the death knell for apartheid.
Brian Molefe’s return as CEO at South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, has caused controversy.
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The drama caused by the return of Brain Molefe into South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, signals a failure of accountability and corporate governance within the public sector.
President Jacob Zuma, left, gets a courtesy visit from President of Namibia Hage Geingob in 2015 in Cape Town.
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South Africa’s ANC and Namibia’s SWAPO, governing parties, enter crucial leadership elections this year, with presidents Zuma and Geingob both facing challenges.
The fossil remains which have caused all the consternation.
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Child support grants are an income resource that enables caregivers to make healthier food choices and provide the means to send their children to school earlier.
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