South Africa is running short of water, but new research finds scarcity is only part of the problem: water is also not being shared fairly among those who need it.
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In South Africa and Kenya, some green energy projects have deprived local communities of land and livelihoods instead of sharing the benefits.
Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.
Our report analyses both monetary and non-monetary value sharing schemes within companies and whether they are a way of avoiding social conflicts in the workplace.
Clergy sometimes place themselves in harm’s way for moral and religious reasons. A scholar of religious ethics explains when – and why.
Empowering students to address social issues doesn’t require a classroom overhaul. Simple, everyday activities can be life-changing when integrated into traditional teaching.
A more responsive government would avoid a turn to militant protests to air grievances.
Looking back on New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that while such hazards may be natural, the death and destruction is largely human-made.
When used as an abbreviation, DEI’s role in tackling racism and bias becomes susceptible to political manipulation and dismantling.
Food shortages are not the cause of hunger in South Africa. The country produces and imports all the food it needs.
The important question in a democratic setting is who gets to pay taxes and how they connect to the well-being of its citizens.
Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no romantic picnic.
Both genres recently celebrated big birthdays. From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip-hop have become global cultural forces.
The expropriation of property for land reform purposes is a potential tool for reducing land inequality.
Dialogue with Mozambique’s opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane is necessary. However, it must not be another ‘elite bargain’ that does not benefit the common people.
How can short films and political philosophy work together to address issues of social justice?
Martin Luther King Jr. popularized the term ‘beloved community’ and gave it his own meaning. But the still-cited phrase was coined decades before.
Venâncio Mondlane finds himself at the centre of one of Mozambique’s worst political crises.
A lack of political will is to blame for failing to find a suitable funding model for the SABC’s public mandate.
Women already facing structural inequalities are most affected by a lack of child support.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, and acting SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor and Research Theme Leader of the Flourishing Life Research Theme, University of the Free State
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Chief Research Specialist., Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Head of Department, Public and Environmental Law Department, University of Limpopo
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Research Director: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of African legal pluralism, University of the Western Cape
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand