The University of Johannesburg, one of the largest, multi-campus, residential universities in South Africa, seeks to achieve the highest distinction in scholarship and research. Born from the merger between the former Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and the East Rand campuses of Vista University in 2005, the University of Johannesburg fosters ideas that are rooted in African epistemology, but also addresses the needs of South African society and the African continent as it is committed to contribute to sustainable growth and development.
A corner shop in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Small businesses could benefit from sharing resources, like electricity.
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A 1971 law, and the parallel growth of an illegal economy, shaped South Africa’s unique cannabis landscape.
Solar powered water heaters on rooftops above shacks in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Installing enough solar panels and battery storage to see a household through a week without sunshine isn’t yet financially possible.
A family cooking with firewood in Qunu, the rural village where former South African President Nelson Mandela grew up.
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The essential ingredients in achieving the development goals are partnerships combined with smart thinking about how to deploy 21st century technologies.
Dozens of displaced people gather along the fence of the MONUSCO base in DRC.
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When it comes to dependency on coal power plants, South Africa is in a class of its own: 85% of its electricity is produced in coal power plants.
Outgoing Lesotho prime minister Moeketsi Majoro, right, hands over the national flag as the symbol of passing power to his successor, Sam Ntsokoane Matekane, on 28 October 2022.
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An understanding of bird biology is the starting point for conservation efforts. 3-D reconstructions of biological structures greatly add to this understanding.
An artefact is returned to the king of Benin in Nigeria.
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