The hunger, frustration and desperation of ordinary Namibians should be first on the political agenda. But this isn’t the case.
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No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
It seems that former president FW De Klerk continues to find it hard to accept that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
In his new capacity as President of South Africa, FW de Klerk directly experienced for the first time how the international community had abandoned its support for minority white rule.
The Chinese model of peace differs fundamentally from that pursued by western nations.
A survey of San ostrich eggshell beads - a common find at archaeological sites - paints a bigger picture of hunter-gatherers, herders and shifting cultural tradition.
An archive project is restoring the secret history of Namibia’s resistance music culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s – suppressed and censored during apartheid but now touring the world.
For the first time since independence, Namibia’s ruling party has suffered electoral setbacks in the midst of economic and political crisis.
Namibia’s political stability so far has been vested in the dominance of Swapo. Those opposing its control face an uphill battle.
It’s imperative that we understand what creates and sustains the delta for the future management of the system.
Critics who called the show featuring Scarlett Moffatt ‘racist’ need to look at their own prejudices.
Many of the most fundamental aspects of TB disease remain unknown. For example, after exposure to the organism that causes TB, why do only some people get infected and only some of those fall ill?
Cape monkfish caught from some areas off Namibia’s coast should be screened for mercury and other heavy metals.
Genetic analysis has traced the evolutionary footsteps of modern humans all the way back to a prehistoric wetland that spanned parts of modern-day Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Urban dwellers who live in informal city settlements have limited access to basic services, and many of them don’t own the land they live on.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
Germany praises itself for having declared a ‘special responsibility’ for Namibia since independence. But the relationship is viewed differently from Windhoek.
The recent ruling to decriminalize same sex behaviour in Botswana may have a positive impact on the rest of southern Africa.
Africa’s democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Political Science, University of Freiburg
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate and Development Initiative Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer: photojournalism and digital media, Namibia University of Science and Technology
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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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Associate Professor in Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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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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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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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
