Solar farms can bring jobs, but the story of one South African community shows that rural residents who give up their land need more say in how benefits are shared.
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Mopane worms are an important source of food security and cash income for some rural households.
Flooding alters the environment in ways that favour malaria transmission.
Heritage is a public good and people should be able to engage with their past.
Between the 10th and 15th centuries, the gold market boomed, especially in Egypt, Persia, India and China. Southern Africa played a crucial role in meeting demand.
Beitbridge and Musina are two border towns in Zimbabwe and South Africa that see many migrants pass through – with different health needs.
South Africa’s healthcare services are overburdened. But this is not because of non-nationals.
Despite regular incidents of anti-migrant violence, peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships between South Africans and migrants can and do exist.
It’s about developing a community of practice: people who can work alongside scientists, taking science out of the laboratory and into the field.
Without a clear framework within which decisions can be made, heritage resources will forever be threatened by development.
Most of the community radio stations operate on a survivalist level, and should be seen as struggling small, medium and micro enterprises.
A much more flexible and open teaching and language policy would help teachers and pupils to enable a meaningful learning environment in a multilingual and diverse classroom setting.
Community radio stations have thrown themselves into the political discussion with gusto.
Fifty years after the founding of South African Students’ Organisation this anti-apartheid movement remains a model for student activists.
A new biography sheds light on Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Zion Christian Church.
New coal mining operations could threaten
South Africa’s Mapungubwe World Heritage Site.
In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
A spike in the number of malaria cases in southern Africa means that the region will not meet its initial target of eliminating malaria by 2018.
In southern Africa there’s been a southward shift in the occurrence of tropical cyclones in the region. This is due to sea temperatures increasing as a result of global warming.
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Senior Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga
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Associate researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Associate Professor of Anthropology and Water Sciences, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Unit Director of the Office of Malaria Research , South African Medical Research Council
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Pretoria
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NRF SARChI Chair Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of African Languages, Rhodes University
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Postdoctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand
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Regional Migration Referent, Johns Hopkins University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Assistant Professor in the history of Southern Africa, Durham University
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Research Fellow, African Studies, Indiana University
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Associate professor, University of Cape Town