Refugees and asylum seekers move through this refugee camp in Musina, South Africa.
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Beitbridge and Musina are two border towns in Zimbabwe and South Africa that see many migrants pass through – with different health needs.
South Africans and migrants demonstrate against xenophobia in Johannesburg.
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South Africa’s healthcare services are overburdened. But this is not because of non-nationals.
Refugees and asylum seekers were forced to live in the open in Cape Town following xenophobic attacks in 2019.
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Despite regular incidents of anti-migrant violence, peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships between South Africans and migrants can and do exist.
Billions of people globally rely on groundwater. Accurate data about water quality is key.
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It’s about developing a community of practice: people who can work alongside scientists, taking science out of the laboratory and into the field.
The Mapungubwe Golden Rhino is believed to have been made between 1220 and 1290.
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Without a clear framework within which decisions can be made, heritage resources will forever be threatened by development.
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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.
Children benefit enormously from being taught in their own languages.
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A much more flexible and open teaching and language policy would help teachers and pupils to enable a meaningful learning environment in a multilingual and diverse classroom setting.
Local communities have taken advantage of campaign trail visits by leaders such as President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Community radio stations have thrown themselves into the political discussion with gusto.
One of the founders of South African Students’ Organisation, Steve Biko.
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Fifty years after the founding of South African Students’ Organisation this anti-apartheid movement remains a model for student activists.
ZCC members at Moria City.
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A new biography sheds light on Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Zion Christian Church.
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New coal mining operations could threaten
South Africa’s Mapungubwe World Heritage Site.
Limpopo Province, South Africa. Who owned this land?
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In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
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A spike in the number of malaria cases in southern Africa means that the region will not meet its initial target of eliminating malaria by 2018.
Some of the destruction in Inhambane, Mozambique after tropical storm Dineo made landfall.
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In southern Africa there’s been a southward shift in the occurrence of tropical cyclones in the region. This is due to sea temperatures increasing as a result of global warming.