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Girls generally have a better relationship with their families and teachers, while boys are more invested in friendship networks.
Off-grid solar energy is a panacea to the electricity crisis in Africa.
The award-winning South African playwright has written a masterful short story about a woman having to play a challenging theatre role.
The water dashboard from Gauteng will help residents understand just how bad things are.
Chinese-owned mines are extracting lithium from Zimbabwe, which has the world’s 9th biggest deposits. This displaces rural villagers.
Men who distance themselves from cases of femicide need to help address the toxic masculinity that feeds the violence.
South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy resisted the transition to renewable energy.
Six fungi species were tested and three were found fast and effective at infecting and destroying woolly apple aphids.
China is South Africa’s biggest opportunity for agricultural exports.
Nigeria is one of the top three plastic pollution hotspots globally.
Ten years ago South Africa committed to invest in its young children. This vision has not been realised.
Smallholder farmers in Nigeria have told researchers they’d benefit from livestock index insurance which pays farmers when weather stations indicate that a severe drought or storm has hit the area.
The participants all said they often felt anxious and hypervigilant when commuting.
Kenya has expanded free maternal care for all. An evaluation study identified mixed results.
In Nigeria, the national grid is so unreliable that individual homes procure much of their own electricity. They’re pivotal in the country’s transitions to renewable energy and should be subsidised.
Austerity means choosing not to invest in citizens, contrary to the mandate of South Africa’s constitution.
Ghana’s history with implementing laws threatens the success of the affirmative action law.
Substantial Chinese investment in African countries has transformed cities.
The past eight Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summits, since 2000, have not resulted in mutual gain, particularly in trade and industrialisation for Africa.
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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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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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
