November 18, 2022
South Africa: LGBTIQ+ Learners At Risk As Conservative Christian Groups Fight Plans for Safer Schools
Advocacy groups in South Africa are intensifying their efforts to prevent the country's education department from creating safer environments for children of diverse gender… Read more »
November 17, 2022
South Africa: Nation Needs Strategic Leadership to Weather Its Storms. Its Presidents Have Not Been Up to the Task
South Africa is in a state of crisis. Its current reality is necessarily shaped by historical events, not least the outcomes of the political settlement process that led to the end… Read more »
November 16, 2022
South Africa: South Africa Can Reduce Emissions and Create Jobs. a Tough Task, but Doable
South Africa has the dubious distinction of having one of the highest rates of unemployment and inequality in the world. It is also one of the world's most emissions-intensive… Read more »
November 15, 2022
Africa: Woman King Is Set in Benin but Filmed in South Africa - in the Process It Erases Real People's Struggles
The latest film by director Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Woman King, is about a legendary all-woman African army in the 1800s, the Amazons of Dahomey. It takes place in what is today… Read more »
November 14, 2022
South Africa: Mangrove Forests Won't Be Able to Spread Further in South Africa, So Protecting Them Is Crucial #AfricaClimateCrisis
Mangrove forests are a common sight in some tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world like Indonesia, Florida in the US, parts of Brazil and Australia. They can also be found on… Read more »
South Africa: Juby Mayet, Legendary South African Writer and Journalist, Remembered Through New Book
South African writer Juby Mayet passed away in 2019 at the age of 82. She wrote her autobiography in 1997 but it has only now been published, 25 years later. Freedom Writer: My… Read more »
South Africa: Over 12 Percent of South African Adults Have Diabetes - Education Is Critical to Achieve Good Outcomes
Over 12% of adults in South Africa have diabetes. Since 2019, researchers at the University of Pretoria have been working on the Tshwane Insulin Project. The project consists of… Read more »
November 13, 2022
South Africa: South Africa Is Hooked On Fossil Fuels - How It Got Here and How It Can Get Out
South Africa has experienced power shortages with rolling blackouts on an unprecedented scale in 2022. This state of affairs is largely due to technical failures at its ageing… Read more »
November 10, 2022
South Africa: South Africa Provides Fertile Ground for Funders of Terrorism. Here's Why
The US embassy in South Africa has twice raised the alarm recently about terrorism in the country. On 26 October it issued a security alert for a possible terror attack in Sandton,… Read more »
November 09, 2022
South Africa: Crime Is Lower When Cities Are Greener - Evidence From South Africa Supports the Link
South Africa's population is urbanising at a rapid pace. The sheer rate of change poses challenges to planning for sustainable and liveable cities. Read more »
November 10, 2022
South Africa: Climate Change Affects Mosquito Behaviour. This May Make It Harder to End Malaria in South Africa
Changes in climatic factors - such as higher temperatures and increased rainfall - affect the developmental, behavioural and distribution patterns of insects like mosquitoes. These… Read more »
November 06, 2022
South Africa: Can a Coalition Govt Work in South Africa?
South Africa's municipal government elections in 2021 produced a number of largely unstable local government coalitions. There's now a strong possibility that the next government… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Africa: South Africa's Dance Music Craze, Amapiano, Could Conquer the World - If Its Stars Step Up
There's a lot of hype around amapiano. The South African dance music genre has dominated dancefloors since 2019, spreading from South Africa to West Africa and now to the world.… Read more »
November 01, 2022
South Africa: Large Tortoises Lived in South Africa Long Ago - How We Recorded Their Fast-Disappearing Traces
In 1835 Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, was exploring an island in the Galápagos archipelago when he encountered "two large tortoises, each of which… Read more »
October 30, 2022
South Africa: Emergency Services in South Africa Are Overwhelmed - How One Community Created Its Own
In a medical emergency, the time it takes emergency services to respond could be the difference between survival or death. Ambulance response time is a global benchmark of… Read more »
October 27, 2022
South Africa: Multiparty Democracy Is in Trouble - Collapsing Coalitions Are a Sure Sign
South Africa's 28-year-old, continuously transforming multiparty democracy was reminded of its own fragility when, in September, a coalition running its biggest city, Johannesburg,… Read more »
October 26, 2022
Africa: South Africa's Wildlife Ranches Can Offer Solutions to Africa's Growing Conservation Challenges
Designated protected areas for wildlife - such as national parks - are the world's principal conservation strategy. But this model to conserve wildlife in Africa is increasingly… Read more »
South Africa: Legal Sex Work in South Africa Won't Create New Problems, Just Help Solve Old Ones
South Africa's post apartheid government has been toying with the idea of decriminalising sex work for almost two decades. But it has hesitated to act with the necessary courage to… Read more »
October 25, 2022
South Africa: Apartheid 'Town Planning' Created Orlando 90 Years Ago. It Became a Hotbed of Black Resistance
Orlando East, a working class community on the periphery of Johannesburg in South Africa, has turned 90 years old. Orlando was one of the first municipal locations - called… Read more »
October 26, 2022
South Africa: Crime, Covid and Climate Change - South African Tourism Faces Many Threats, but It's Resilient
South Africa's tourism industry has been rocked by the murder of a German visitor during an attempted robbery. The development resulted in negative media publicity, with a… Read more »
October 25, 2022
South Africa: Covid Is a 'Smart Virus' That Can Affect DNA - but That Doesn't Mean You Can Pass It On to Your Kids
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) has changed the world as we know it. Although new vaccines and antiviral treatments have brought hope, the pesky virus has… Read more »
October 24, 2022
South Africa: Artificial Intelligence Is Used for Predictive Policing in the U.S. and UK - South Africa Should Embrace It, Too
In the 2002 movie Minority Report (based on a short story by Philip K Dick), director Steven Spielberg imagined a future in which three psychics can "see" murders before they… Read more »
South Africa: Parliament Fails to Hold the Executive to Account - History Shows What Can Happen
In South Africa's apartheid era from 1948 to 1994, the executive arm of government dominated over parliament. In any system, this allows a small group of politicians to dominate… Read more »
October 23, 2022
South Africa: In 1986 Wits University Did a Survey About Its Relevance to South Africa - Another Is Needed
As the number of black students increased at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa in the 1980s, township struggles spread onto the campus and management came… Read more »
South Africa: 4 Ways Companies Can Strengthen Their Boards to Make It Through Tough Economic Times
South Africa's economy is struggling. A number of factors are behind the decline. These include severe power cuts which are taking their toll on all spheres of the economy, rising… Read more »