Improving school sanitation, reducing household chores, and addressing harassment and bullying could enhance girls’ reading performance relative to boys’.
Detail from the cover of Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase.
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There are several reasons why ethical conduct in scientific research is so important.
South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs, in charge of citizenship, isn’t working well.
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Problems identified include a backlog of visa, permit and status applications, fraudulent applications being first rejected, then accepted, and the system being used illegally.
The Ora Loapi space at the 2023 Joburg Art Fair featured Shepherd Ndudzo’s work.
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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.
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.
Regular physical activity helps to prevent and manage many chronic diseases.
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Factors such as having supportive family and friends, safer communities, positive school environments and adequate resources, are often associated with more physical activity.
Being too hot isn’t just uncomfortable: it can be dangerous.
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The findings suggest that poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and levels of local human development are higher.
Dr Sarah Mothulatshipi and Topo Mpho Çhengeta in Gweta, Botswana exchanging knowledge with the local community about long term environmental change and stone age archaeology in the area.
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Scientists join their profession with the hope their research will benefit humanity. But many still inadvertently exploit local collaborators or communities as cheap labour.
African wild dog with pups.
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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
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