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South Africa’s Lemba people: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity is linked to one homeland
2nd May 2024 A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and their histories in... →
Global carbon tax urgently needed to manage the climate crisis
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 2nd May 2024 ISS modelling shows that carbon taxing can have major benefits if all nations contribute based on their income status. As the world faces a climate... →
Defending democracy, the Senegalese way
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 30th April 2024 Senegal’s people stood up to protect their democracy rather than wait for the military or external help. After three tumultuous years, Senegal’s... →
Voting trends and party support over 20 years
30th April 2024 Polls predict that the ANC will finish below 50% in the May 2024 general election. Elections are a contest for power in general and control over... →
How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa
29th April 2024 Political history scholar Jonny Steinberg’s 2023 book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africa’s most famous... →
Owning a gun in South Africa offers some safety, but risks run high for users and society – expert
29th April 2024 South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, eclipsed only by Honduras and a handful of Caribbean island states. Furthermore,... →
South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs
26th April 2024 South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research. Some of the country’s researchers have made major... →
Boko Haram factional violence worries Islamic State
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 26th April 2024 In its quest to expand beyond North East Nigeria, JAS–ISWAP clashes aren’t in the global terror group’s interests. In October 2023, Boko Haram’s... →
Reflect and recommit
By: Terence Creamer 26th April 2024 Memories are short and it often feels like they are becoming shorter not only because of the flood of information associated with the 24-hour news... →
R21 anti-malaria vaccine is a game changer: scientist who helped design it reflects on 30 years of research, and what it promises
25th April 2024 Until three years ago nobody had developed a vaccine against any parasitic disease. Now there are two against malaria: the RTS,S and the R21... →
