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While a few new residential developments improve racial mixing, most other developments do not.
Water can make you ill for two reasons: it can contain toxic chemicals or pathogenic organisms.
Citizens in South Africa’s industrial heartland use too much water, the city wastes way too much and there is too much theft of drinking water.
If the numbers are correct, and it’s not certain that they are, Cape Town may have overtaken Johannesburg as the largest city in South Africa.
Big data is not the answer to all the challenges that faced Census 2022, but it may be a key enabler for gathering reliable national data in the future.
There’s an urgent need to put water higher on South Africa’s agenda. Various water problems are escalating at a rapid rate.
More than a third of people living in South Africa’s richest province Gauteng can’t afford to buy enough food.
The court ruling that it’s a constitutional right to have clean air highlights the fact that South Africa needs to improve air quality urgently.
The glaring failure by authorities to secure an area notorious for attacks on trucks prompts questions about, at best, utter ineptitude, or at worst, complicity.
An uncomfortable reality is that looting is perceived by the looters to be socially acceptable and is often encouraged and endorsed within social and community networks.
South Africa is quite capable of delivering world-class healthcare to all its citizens. But this is constantly being hampered by an increasingly unconducive environment.
Climate change is causing jacarandas to flower earlier. If this trend continues, they could be at risk of flowering when it’s too cold and become dormant.
Gauteng citizens need to know the uncomfortable truth: for the next six years, their water supplies will increasingly have to be restricted.
Labour migrants from other provinces into Gauteng and the Western Cape are more likely to be employed than the two provinces’ permanent residents.
Women are testing positive at a higher rate than men and women, they have a greater social and economic vulnerability, particularly during lockdown, with working-age being the most affected.
Address data are maintained in silos at different government entities. There is limited coordination and adherence to international standards; good practice is lacking around information management.
Vulnerability in the context of Covid-19 is really complex. Many households in Gauteng have different challenges.
Households headed by the elderly are likely to be particularly vulnerable in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most of the community radio stations operate on a survivalist level, and should be seen as struggling small, medium and micro enterprises.
Top contributors
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Researcher of urban & cultural studies, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Senior Researcher, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director: Research Strategy, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
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Researcher, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Senior Researcher, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Senior researcher, urban sustainability transitions, environmental governance and resilience, University of the Western Cape
