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Oil and gas exploration pose a threat to the Okavango River Basin water resources. The Namibian and Botswana governments need to properly assess the risk of contamination.
South Africa needs a new social contract whose core aim is the creation of dynamic economy.
Immigration policy is so highly politicised that the South African government seems afraid to move.
Africa contributes less than 1% of research worldwide on movement behaviours in children. This means that research on movement behaviours has largely excluded over 16% of the world’s population.
Factors such as having supportive family and friends, safer communities, positive school environments and adequate resources, are often associated with more physical activity.
Simply put, southern Africans are experiencing heat stress more often than in 1979.
Machine learning techniques showed that individual identity is important to spotted hyenas.
The findings suggest that poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and levels of local human development are higher.
Scientists join their profession with the hope their research will benefit humanity. But many still inadvertently exploit local collaborators or communities as cheap labour.
African wild dogs are adapting to rising temperatures using a cue that no longer accurately predicts the best conditions for reproduction.
Patients with low HIV viral loads are just as likely to harbour HIV variants with drug resistance mutations as those with high viral loads.
Instruction through mobile phones can provide an effective, scalable method to provide education instruction when schooling is disrupted.
Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.
Collectively, the evidence studied by ichnologists helps to paint a picture of long-gone landscapes and the creatures and plants that populated those spaces.
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world’s most sunlit regions. A prototype generator uses that sunlight in place of diesel to support unreliable electricity grids.
There’s a new COVID lineage called B.1.1.529. It has a genetic profile very different from other circulating variants
The countries share related populations, economies, ecologies and epidemiologies. This interconnectedness highlights challenges and opportunities for more effective malaria control across the region.
Smaller diamonds are so common that some can be purchased for cheaper than a tank of petrol. Larger diamonds are an entirely different story.
Countries have adopted a wide array of measures involving a proliferation of fraud agencies.
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, North-West University
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer, Education, Arts, Literacies, University of Glasgow
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Director and Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University
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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Yarik Turianskyi is Manager of the Governance and African Peer Review Mechanism Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs and guest lecturer in African Governance and Eastern European Politics, University of Pretoria
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PhD candidate, University of Wollongong
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR)/Afrobarometer Assistant Project Manager for Southern Africa, University of Cape Town
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
