Teacher training in South Africa is under enormous pressure.
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In South Africa the preparation of history teachers as well as the teaching of history is in serious need of attention.
Foundries in South Africa are the hardest hit by rising electricity costs.
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High municipal electricity tariffs pose a serious threat to South Africa’s machinery and equipment manufacturing industries.
Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza is one of many authoritarian African leaders.
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More leaders in more African countries will abolish term limits unless organisations like the African Union take action.
North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo (centre) before the announcement that his province is being taken over by national government.
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The chaos visiting South Africa’s North-West province shows that ordinary people in rural areas have got a raw deal from ruling party.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Russian President Vladimir Putin. Egypt seems likely to be the next African country with nuclear energy.
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Are there cheaper alternatives to nuclear power to alleviate energy shortages in Africa?
The flaws in the political settlement that ended apartheid need urgent attention.
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Mandela’s reconciliation message may have partly reflected his view of the world. But it was also a product of his party, the ANC.
Terapi kanker dengan senyawa platinum begitu mahal.
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Temuan kami membuka jalan untuk obat kemoterapi baru yang dapat lebih efektif tapi lebih sedikit toksit, dengan lebih sedikit efek samping.
The ANC has had an exceptionally poor track record of governance.
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The removal of Jacob Zuma from power is to be welcomed but, it’s not the answer to South Africa’s problems.
Strikes are a common sight in South Africa. Data helps to put them in context.
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Data reveals that South Africa’s strike action is lower than many other countries, and not as prolonged as politicians claim.
Academics are drowning in bureaucracy.
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Bureaucracy is necessary to manage large institutions. But it can also alienate researchers from their field or discipline.
Pensioner Katherine Boyi, left, with donated blankets and Agnes Makhubela, with donated maize meal, in Doornkop, Soweto.
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Stories from the ground highlighted the unmet needs of people who are vulnerable and who are left behind.
The white captains of South African business need to change their ways.
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The Mark Lamberti case shows that South African business suffers from deeply rooted racial prejudices.
Winnie Madikizela achieved a lot before she met Nelson Mandela.
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Reducing Madikizela’s entire life and legacy to her relationship with Mandela has more to do with patriarchal tropes about powerful women than reality.
Eskom’s pilot wind-farm facility at Klipheuwel. The utility must seriously consider in-house renewable projects.
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South Africa’s power utility would do well to consider swapping out expensive new coal-powered capability for renewables.
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A new silver-based compound that is less toxic with fewer side effects could hold the key to crippling cancer.
Legal senator Tony Chike Iwobi casts his ballot to elect the speaker of the Italian Senate.
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Italy’s first black senator, and the party he represents, won’t be advancing the fight against xenophobia.
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Survivor’s guilt is arguably an instance of good character, an emotional expression.
Tiger Brands was thrown into the centre of the listeriosis storm.
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South Africa’s food making giant, Tiger Brands, could have handled the listeriosis crisis better.
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South Africa needs a robust economic policy agenda to make it more open, productive and inclusive.
People in the township of Khayelitsha near Cape Town have been managing water shortages for ages.
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South Africa is a water-scarce country where inequity and a lack of fairness and justice pervades water distribution.