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Covid-19 school closures in South Africa and their impact on children
16th July 2020 When the new coronavirus rapidly spread across the globe, evidence of its effect on children was still scanty and closing schools seemed the... →
South Africa's minibus taxi industry has been marginalised for too long. This must change
15th July 2020 Hundreds of minibus taxi operators in South Africa recently defied the government’s COVID-19 restrictions prohibiting them from carrying full... →
COVID-19: South Africa should build on HIV activism to foster behaviour change
15th July 2020 During a recent run in Newlands Forest, Cape Town, I encountered a few runners and walkers without masks. When I asked one of them where his mask... →
The ANC insists it's still a political vanguard: this is what ails democracy in South Africa
14th July 2020 A common claim of the governing African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa is its commitment to participatory democracy: the involvement of... →
How COVID-19 is putting the rule of law to the test across Africa
10th July 2020 A number of Africa’s fragile democracies have become vulnerable to the sword of leaders assuming wide-ranging powers under cover of emergency... →
Covid-19 vaccine trial in South Africa: everything you need to know
9th July 2020 There isn’t enough clinical research being done in Africa. Less than 2.5% of all clinical trials in the world are done on the continent. This is... →
Outsourcing has not improved conditions for domestic workers in South Africa
9th July 2020 In South Africa, approximately one-million people, mostly black women from marginalised backgrounds, are employed as domestic workers by the middle... →
How the dimensions of human inequality affect who and what we are
9th July 2020 What does it mean to be human today? It is an excellent starting point for thinking about human inequality. To be human, in an elementary sense,... →
Why protesters are fed up with Sudan's tricky transition
8th July 2020 In the last few days, tens of thousands of people have, once again, taken to the streets of Sudan’s major cities to demand “freedom, peace and... →
Black Lives Matter: four lessons in white allyship from the South African anti-apartheid movement
8th July 2020 As Black Lives Matter protests, triggered by the killing of George Floyd, spread across the world in response to systemic racism and police... →
