Birds species vary greatly in the way they handle heat – an important finding for predicting vulnerability to global warming.
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A new ‘rule book’ for naming genomically sequenced bacteria is a boon for science.
Africa’s designated protected areas don’t handle shocks well - South Africa’s wildlife ranches offer lessons in resilience.
Various scholars weigh in on the state of Ghana’s economy, how it got into this situation and on the IMF’s involvement.
Small-scale farmers find it difficult to commercialise and add value to the food chain.
The president has used coup rumour to get rid of anti-reform elements in government, and consolidate his power ahead of 2025 elections
The reality is that the US Federal Reserve has decided price rises must be addressed by raising interest rates. African countries have no choice by to follow suite.
Foot-and-mouth disease rarely kills animals, but it leads to production losses and economic knocks.
If women see other women pursuing and being successful in an entrepreneurial environment, they are more likely to follow that path themselves.
Wits University Press is one of only 15 active university publishers in Africa – crucial for scholarship about the continent.
Subsidies to shield the general population from oil price increases do not automatically reduce poverty and inequality.
There is a useful set of steps to follow to help the transfer of technological innovations to entrepreneurs who can put them into use.
Zulu spirituality and the legacy of the ancestors, personal and musical, are the concerns of the saxophonist and composer.
Au cours des trois dernières décennies, Beyoncé a joué un rôle majeur dans le façonnement de la culture populaire mondiale.
Removing a pre-existing right like cancelling the school nutrition programme is a retrogressive measure, and should only be done under very specific circumstances.
The AU’s first two decades have largely represented a magical, mystical world of unfulfilled expectations.
The IMF sends its staff on two types of mission to member countries: to assess the state of the country’s macro economy or to assess the need for financial support.
Washington must overcome growing anti-west sentiment on the continent given the development alternative that China offers.
The Mapungubwe site offers evidence of precolonial innovation and technology.
Betulkah globalisasi, yang membuat dunia semakin terkoneksi, tengah mengalami kemunduran?
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Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Audiology in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Academic - statistician, University of Pretoria
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PhD candidate, University of Pretoria
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Research Affiliate, University of Pretoria
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Project Manager, University of Pretoria Diabetes Research Centre, University of Pretoria
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Project Head, Tshwane Insulin Project, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Economics, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, Political Sciences, and Deputy Dean Teaching and Learning (Humanities), University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Political Science, University of Pretoria
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Full Professor, University of Pretoria
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Manager and NRF-rated researcher: Chromatography Mass Spectrometry - University of Pretoria and UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP-ISMC), University of Pretoria
