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To achieve diversity in medical schools, we need to look at the stories behind the numbers.
Only some campus workers get to keep their jobs.
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COVID-19 has hit college and universities particularly hard, but do ‘nonessential’ employees have to suffer?
A police officer at a 24-hour roadblock in Cape Town, South Africa after the country went into lockdown.
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It is rare for a post-authoritarian society to get two chances to reconcile. This may be just that, for white South Africans in particular.
Pupils take exams in a Kenyan school.
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Study presents a model that can be scaled to improve learning outcomes and transition rates for young people living in urban informal settlements.
Lesotho’s embattled prime minister deployed troops onto the streets in April, ostensibly to ‘restore order’.
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South Africa’s numerous interventions in Lesotho contribute to the acrimonious nature of its political culture.
Lockdowns to curb the coronavirus have shut down Africa’s dominant informal economy, destroying livelihoods.
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The loss of livelihoods flowing from the efforts to combat the pandemic highlights the dearth of social protection measures on the continent.
Valley of the Dawn members celebrate ‘Day of the Indoctrinator’ at their temple complex in Brazil on May 1. This year’s event is postponed due to coronavirus.
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Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn faith is often dismissed as a cult. But many of the group’s fantastical rituals are a recognizable reaction to this harsh world of inequality, loneliness and pandemics.
Tom Thabane, prime minister of Lesotho, during a recent visit to Ethiopia.
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Power is visibly draining away from Tom Thabane. But, even at 80 years old, he remains a wily operator, and seems determined to cause maximum trouble to secure his immunity from prosecution.
Economic crisis is beginning to bite.
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One of the key economic mitigating measures put in place after the country’s COVID-19 lockdown has had very little uptake by employers and will leave miillions of workers without any cover.
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Empatheatre’s latest production is more than a play about three characters who live near the sea. It’s a model for collective consultation on how to save the ocean.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela with former American world boxing champion Marvin Hagler. The undated photo was taken after Mandela’s release.
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Prison life is about routine: each day like the one before; each week like the one before it, so that the months and years blend into each other.
Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane and his new wife, Maesaiah, at the Magistrate Court in Maseru.
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The doctrine of equality is ingrained both in theory and in the express provisions of Lesotho’s constitution.
Access to clean water remains a huge problem in Zimbabwe and many other African countries.
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The 17 goals seek to end all forms of poverty everywhere by 2030, by achieving 169 targets. Progress in achieving them does not match the hype.
Sudanese protestors celebrate a deal with the ruling generals on a new governing body, in the capital Khartoum, recently.
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The African Union’s staunch support for al-Bashir, cloaked in criticism of the International Criminal Court, denied justice to the millions affected by the conflict in Sudan.
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Short-term schemes make it difficult to assess, but nine basic income-style programmes from Canada to Iran reveal some fascinating outcomes.
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Most of the community radio stations operate on a survivalist level, and should be seen as struggling small, medium and micro enterprises.
Angolan President João Lourenço addressing a meeting of the governing party.
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The Dos Santos family and their supporters claim they are the objects of political persecution.
Refugees at the Central Methodist Church in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Refugee legislation introduced after the end of apartheid was lauded as being progressive. But implementation has fallen short of international standards.
The town of Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, and surrounds have suffered serious neglect by the local municipality.
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The precedent-setting ruling may cause jitters in dysfunctional municipalities around the country.
Protesters march against gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa.
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Underlying direct or personal violence is structural violence that is entrenched in unequal power relations in society.
Millions of youth have participated in climate strikes, negotiations, press conferences and events, demanding urgent climate action this year.
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The actions of today’s leaders on climate change will determine how much more vocal youth will become in 2020.
Former leader of the Democratic Alliance, Mmusi Maimane. The politics of race in the party ended his tenure.
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There is no moral equivalence between apartheid’s use of race categories and their continued use by the democratic government.
The results of the Namibian election reflect growing discontent among voters with the way the country is being run.
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For the first time since independence, Namibia’s ruling party has suffered electoral setbacks in the midst of economic and political crisis.
South Africans celebrate the Springboks winning the 2019 Rugby Woirld Cup.
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Unity for the wrong reasons reduces social cooperation to whatever happens to benefit a particular person or group, making it a zero-sum game.
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When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.