May 18, 2022
South Africa: Nation Has Entered a New Phase of the Covid Pandemic - What That Means
Confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been increasing in South Africa in recent weeks. This has been largely driven by two offspring - known as the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages - of the… Read more »
May 17, 2022
South Africa: Inflation Should Be Viewed As Public Enemy Number 1 - Here's Why
Inflation is a process of sustained increases in the general price level over a period of time, typically 12 months. Read more »
May 13, 2022
South Africa: Was Nation's Corruption Commission Worth Four Years of Work?
South Africa's judicial commission into state capture, known as the Zondo Commission, recently handed over the fourth part of its voluminous and scathing findings to President… Read more »
May 12, 2022
South Africa: Black Farmers Need Support - How It Could Be Done
Most countries in both the rich and the developing world have some sort of programme to help early career farmers (mostly, but not exclusively young people) to get established in a… Read more »
South Africa: What School Textbooks in South Africa Say About the Cold War - and Why It Matters
South Africa's stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't that surprising in light of its treatment of the Cold War in the school history curriculum and textbooks. In these it's… Read more »
Africa: Jazz - South Africa's Shane Cooper and His Band Mabuta Make Borders Irrelevant
South African jazz seems to be having another international moment. Recently, for example, the Blue Note jazz label launched a new imprint, Blue Note Africa dedicated to the… Read more »
May 11, 2022
South Africa: How South Africa Is Integrating Covid Into Routine Care for Mothers and Babies
COVID-19 has had a direct impact on maternal mortality. Read more »
May 10, 2022
South Africa: Community Dialogue Can Show the Way to Meeting Water Needs - A Case Study
About 842,000 people die every year from diarrhoea in rural communities because they lack safe water and adequate sanitation. Water and sanitation are essential in preventing a… Read more »
May 09, 2022
South Africa: New Book Unpacks the Complexities of Whiteness in South Africa
In his latest book sociologist Professor Roger Southall, a prolific researcher who has written extensively about political dynamics in Southern Africa, avoids the "negative and… Read more »
May 08, 2022
South Africa: Street Traders in South Africa Play a Vital Role - How Their Rights Can Be Protected
The South African informal economy accounts for 17% of employment. Street trading is the largest. Street traders are scattered around the many corners of the country's towns and… Read more »
May 05, 2022
South Africa: What's Driving Hunger in Gauteng, South Africa's Economic Power House
Food serves as one of the critical needs a person requires for daily survival. In South Africa it's recognised as a fundamental human right under the country's constitution. Read more »
South Africa: Antjie Krog and the Role of the Poet in South Africa's Public Life
When South African writer Antjie Krog was just 17, she wrote a poem for her school magazine which was shocking enough to upset Kroonstad High's parents. The furore caught the… Read more »
May 04, 2022
Africa: Most Maternal Deaths Are Preventable - How to Improve Outcomes in South Africa
The past 20 years have seen a significant decline in maternal mortality rates from 342 deaths to 211 per 100,000 globally . But every day, more than 800 women around the world die… Read more »
South Africa: Removing Alien Plants Can Save Water - We Measured How Much
Humans' relationship with nature is broken. We're transforming the Earth so dramatically that almost one million plant and animals species face extinction. Losing species unravels… Read more »
South Africa: Former President Predicts End of Ruling Party - History Is On His Side
Former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, one of the saner voices in the ruling African National Congress (ANC), has recently given voice to heresy. He has said that the… Read more »
May 03, 2022
South Africa: How Vulnerable Is the University of Cape Town to Destructive Wildfires?
Just over a year ago, a wildfire caused considerable damage to the University of Cape Town and surroundings. Irreplaceable African collections were destroyed. The last active… Read more »
May 01, 2022
South Africa: Can Themba - South Africa's Rebel Journalist Was a Teacher At Heart
Siphiwo Mahala is well known as a South African short story writer, novelist, playwright and literary organiser. He is also an academic. In fact, his most recent book is a product… Read more »
South Africa: South Africa Is Proposing Plans to Manage Diseases Like Covid. Why They're Flawed
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic the South African government published "special regulations" to contain the spread of the disease. These actions were taken under special… Read more »
July 15, 2021
South Africa: Fossil Tracks and Trunk Marks Reveal Signs of Ancient Elephants On South Africa's Coast
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, South Africa's Cape south coast looked very different. Some of the species that roamed this area are now extinct; others evolved over the… Read more »
June 02, 2019
South Africa: How Technology Could Help Rural South Africa Turn Sunshine Into Income
The way energy is produced and distributed is changing rapidly as the industry moves away from carbon-based energy production. Technological development in the production of… Read more »
June 28, 2017
South Africa: ANC Policy Papers Point to a Party in a Panic About Losing Power
The documents released ahead of the upcoming policy conference of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) expose a panicking party that sees enemies everywhere.… Read more »
September 01, 2015
South Africa: E-Cigarettes May Help Smokers Cut Back but That Doesn't Mean They're Not Toxic
A recent study showing teenagers who use e-cigarettes are three times more likely to smoke normal cigarettes than those who don't amplifies the South African government's calls to… Read more »