Conrad Hughes, Université de Genève When I was a child I went to school in South Africa. This was the late 1970s. At school, the teachers…
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Scott A. Williams, New York University Around two million years ago an ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, lived in what is today South Africa, nearby a…
Anculien Schoeman, University of Pretoria Taxes “are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organised society”. As the quote from US…
Ayesha Motala, University of KwaZulu-Natal Diabetes is rising at an alarming rate. One in 10 adults worldwide – 537 million people – now live with the…
Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini, University of Eswatini The Kingdom of Eswatini, the small, landlocked southern African country that shares borders with South Africa and Mozambique, has been…
Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Nicholas Bacci, University of the Witwatersrand, and Tanya Nadine Augustine, University of the Witwatersrand Lightning is one of the most powerful…
Lee Miles, Bournemouth University Sierra Leone is prone to climate-related disasters like fires, water shortages, floods and mudslides. It has also seen serious disease outbreaks like…
Taneshka Kruger, University of Pretoria and Tiaan de Jager, University of Pretoria Malaria is a risk to three quarters of the population in the Southern African…
Joey Akan, The Conversation and Usifo Omozokpea, The Conversation After years of pressure, western countries are finally returning priceless artefacts and artworks that had been looted…
Jaishree Raman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Shüné Oliver, National Institute for Communicable Diseases The World Health Organisation (WHO) took an historic step in the…