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La régularisation de la libre circulation des personnes à travers les frontières africaines est l'un des grands défis de développement du continent.
Regularising freer movement of people across African borders is one of the continent’s great developmental challenges.
Répondre aux défis sociétaux et promouvoir le développement durable sont une préoccupation particulièrement urgente pour les universités africaines.
A conflict resolution expert – and rugby fan – explains how the game can restore spectacle and avoid farcical and dangerous mismatches due to players being sent off.
Responding to societal challenges and promoting sustainable development is an especially pressing concern for African universities.
The exhibit offers a close look at the problematic history of palaeoanthropology.
His teaching spoke practically but compassionately to the needs of the African child.
Many sources of finance, including those from the World Bank and IMF, don’t adequately cater for African nations’ specific needs.
In South Africa men are 70% more likely to die from TB than women. Tackling social factors such as smoking and high alcohol consumption could save more lives.
Hace unos días, un vuelo comercial de Virgin Galactic partió con dos fósiles de antiguos parientes prehumamos. Los expertos, indignados, insisten en que no hay razón científica para enviar fósiles humanos al espacio.
Experts insist there is no scientific reason for allowing these fossils to travel to space.
South Africa’s white shark population is not in decline but migrating to survive.
Some footprints last thousands or even millions of years, preserved in sand that turned to rock.
Remote medical care gives privacy and no travel is necessary. What’s needed now is better access to technology. Language barriers also need to be broken down
Access to economic and education opportunities increases women’s ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks.
Fossilised tracks of a group of plant-eating dinosaurs have been found in Lesotho’s Roma Valley for the first time.
South Africa’s vaping tax is not well-targeted to reduce consumption of vaping products by the youth.
Nigeria is deeply polarised along ethnic, religious, cultural and political lines – and violence is never far from the surface.
Immigration policy is so highly politicised that the South African government seems afraid to move.
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Associate Professor in Development Finance & Insurance, University of Cape Town
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Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
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Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Research Fellow, Labour, Development & Governance Unit, University of Cape Town
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Adjunct Senior Researcher in the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health at the University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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obstetrician/gynaecologist and researcher, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor, Department of Archaeology and Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town
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Senior lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Media Studies and Production, University of Cape Town
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PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town
