Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is one of the democratic leaders who have not condemned Russia for invading Ukraine.
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South Africa, India and Brazil are not prepared to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine.
Policeman Shane Naidoo, left, leads Thabo Bester from holding cells in Durban.
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Collusion between the police, the department of correctional services and the private company, G4S, has made it impossible to enforce accountability.
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Criminalisation of medical judgment may interfere with appropriate medical decision making.
Begging is a strategy often used by homeless people.
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Food insecurity remains a major health problem. And poorer households are disproportionately affected.
Organisations must value young people’s time.
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Leaders and organisations across Africa need to seriously rethink how they work with young people.
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The public bears the suffering and costs of the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, and the rapidly accelerating climate emergency.
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The industry has the potential to create jobs, alleviate poverty and help reduce the extreme inequality in South Africa
Noni Jabavu at her London office, 12th September 1961.
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These columns demonstrate that Noni Jabavu’s concerns from 1970s are still relevant today.
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Our understanding of Parkinson’s disease is far from complete. But researchers now believe that in most cases, Parkinson’s is caused by a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors.
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The political content in our personal feeds not only represents the world and politics to us. It creates new, sometimes “alternative”, realities.
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Clinics without pharmacist assistants were more likely to have erratic medicine supply management practices.
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South Africa’s laws designed to protect whistleblowers need urgent reform.
The entrance to South Africa’s coal-fired Tutuka power plant operated by Eskom.
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Nothing will save Eskom in its present configuration.
Workers in one of the poly-tunnels of an urban farm in South Africa.
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Urban farms can work in developing countries if farmers and architects are aware of conditions that favour food production in built spaces.
South Africans need targeted and accessible interventions and counselling programmes.
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Adverse childhood experiences are associated with an increased risk of mental health problems in adulthood.
President Carter’s interest in southern Africa was crucial to keeping the peace.
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Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and under appreciated part of his legacy
Demonstrations against South African power supplier ESKOM in 2015.
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South Africa’s courts are likely to set a high bar in cases brought against the government’s most recent state of disaster declaration.
Wine remains among South Africa’s major agricultural exports.
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South Africa’s focus should be on maintaining smooth relations with critical export markets while searching for new ones.
Members of the African Christian Democratic Party protesting against the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa.
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The repeal of outdated apartheid-era laws would have a far-reaching, positive impact on individual sex workers’ health and well-being.
Pastors pray for former South African president and ANC leader Jacob Zuma.
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Perhaps the combination of religious rhetoric and secular laws is a winning electoral strategy.