Different strategies are required to save coastlines.
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Coastlines need to be recognised as dynamic, shifting environments rather than as environments that need to be controlled and managed.
A refugee child in South Africa plays on a road side after attacks on foreigners in 2008.
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The South African print often uses language that portrays foreigners in a bad light, and dehumanises them.
In her artwork for the project, Christina Leputla depicted victims of domestic violence fleeing their attacker.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
China’s President Xi Jinping at the 2018 Business Forum meeting during the 10th BRICS summit in South Africa.
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The African continent is an obvious contender for courting by major powers.
BRICS foreign ministers meet in Cape Town, South Africa, in June 2023.
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BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – compose 41% of the world population and almost a third of global GDP.
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Almost one in three teen mothers do not return to school. Cash incentives help get them back, but affordable day-care is essential too.
A gay pride rally in Entebbe, Uganda in 2014 before a tough anti-homosexuality law was passed.
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The challenge is to ensure that the bank is making decisions on a principled and predictable basis.
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Some footprints last thousands or even millions of years, preserved in sand that turned to rock.
Telemedicine helps women avoid the stigma of abortion.
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Remote medical care gives privacy and no travel is necessary. What’s needed now is better access to technology. Language barriers also need to be broken down
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South Africa’s legal commercial lion industry is helping to act as a cover for the illegal international big cat bone trade.
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From the moment a male lion is born it faces a gauntlet of challenges, ranging from snakebite to infanticide.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will host the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg.
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It is not mere expansion, but the character of the expansion which will guide the five Brics countries on whether they admit new members.
African countries are lagging behind in digital advancements.
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The borderless nature of cyberspace presents particular challenges for African states used to controlling activities in their territory.
Three 3D views of Bradysaurus baini specimen (FMNH UC 1533). Scale bar equals 50 cm. Published in Van den Brandt et al. 2023
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Large pareiasaurs are among the earliest huge plant-eating tetrapods to appear in the history of the development of life on Earth.
Thandi Galleta of Malawi (right) and Karin Burger of New Zealand in a 2023 World Cup warm up match in Cape Town.
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The world’s largest women’s sporting event is being hosted in Africa for the first time.
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South Africa needs a new social contract whose core aim is the creation of dynamic economy.
Essop Pahad was a confidant of former president Thabo Mbeki.
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When Essop Pahad was given a job, he did it efficiently. He surprised even his critics with his diligence.
Effective African economic development depends on economic integration and free movement of people.
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Immigration policy is so highly politicised that the South African government seems afraid to move.
Unhealthy diets are a major risk factor for diseases like cancers, diabetes.
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The increased availability and consumption of unhealthy food has contributed to poor health outcomes.
Proposed solutions to malnutrition included providing school breakfast.
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Failing to understand what communities consider important greatly diminishes the responsiveness of policies to the actual needs of individuals.