A 1971 law, and the parallel growth of an illegal economy, shaped South Africa’s unique cannabis landscape.
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Experts across the board have identified inequality as a major challenge to efforts to end AIDS.
Time out of school erased a year’s worth of schooling for public school learners in South Africa.
Local control over school funding leads to uneven resources between districts, two legal scholars maintain.
Despite government efforts to provide digital resources for students kept out of school for most of 2020, access to these platforms was deeply unequal
Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 accounted for 25% of new infections, while making up only 10% of the population.
International borders were negotiable for the right price. What residents of former ‘homelands’ and of Lesotho and eSwatini have in common now are limited government services and few job prospects.
After the CDC changed course in late July, recommending universal masking indoors, Nevada became the first state to adopt a flexible masking policy that can quickly adjust to changing COVID-19 rates.
Cities are stepping up to provide free Wi-Fi for families in need in order to close the digital divide in education. But will those efforts make a difference where it counts?
Whatever the eventual impact on women’s candidacies post-pandemic, COVID-19 has the potential to shock the system, upending or reinforcing existing gender imbalances in political power.
Top contributors
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Behavioural Scientist, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of History, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Political Studies; Director, Canadian Opinion Research Archive, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Dean and Director of Education, Counseling and Leadership, Bradley University
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Assistant Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Research Fellow of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Associate Professor of African History, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of History, University of the Free State
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Constitutional Law Fellow, University of South Carolina
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Associate professor in Health Psychology, University of Copenhagen
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Professor of Economics and South African Research Chair in the Economics of Social Policy, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher, Stellenbosch University
