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From London to Harare: An Activist Yearning for an Ounce of Practice
Embed from Getty Images By Heike Becker, University of the Western Cape –Book Review: Leo Zeilig; An Ounce of Practice; Hope Road Publishing, London, February 2017 The cover of ‘An Ounce of Practice’....
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The ANC isn’t Ready to Radically Transform the South African Economy
Embed from Getty Images By Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg There’s nothing radical about trying to fix what doesn’t work by making it work better, which is why the economic transformation...
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White Men’s Privilege in Emerging Economies isn’t Measured. It Should be.
Embed from Getty Images By Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, University of Johannesburg On the same day I interviewed a white Dutch man living in Gurugram, just south of New Delhi, I spoke with a black...
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Why Every Generation of Students Must Find, Fulfill or Betray its Mission
Embed from Getty Images By Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand In a recent opinion piece in the Business Day newspaper, author and academic Jonny Steinberg suggested that a “generational...
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White People in South Africa Still Hold the Lion’s Share of All Forms of Capital
Embed from Getty Images By Mohammad Amir Anwar, University of Oxford The role of “white monopoly capital” in post-apartheid South Africa has been in the news lately. In the South African context, it...
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Poorer Countries do More for the Conservation of Large Mammals
Embed from Getty Images By Peter Lindsey, University of Pretoria Scores of animal species across the globe, including tigers, lions and rhinos, are at risk of extinction due to threats posed by...
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South African Protesters Echo a Global Cry: Democracy isn’t Making People’s...
Embed from Getty Images By Carin Runciman, University of Johannesburg Recent violent protests in South Africa have refocused attention on the growing number of demonstrations over government failure...
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Why Resilience Matters for School Trying to Thrive in Tough Situations
Embed from Getty Images By Liesel Ebersöhn, University of Pretoria Many schools in Southern Africa are functioning in tough situations. Poverty, a lack of resources and poor or non-existent basic...
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Toxic Leaders Affect Companies, and Governments. How to Deal with Them
Embed from Getty Images By Linda Ronnie, University of Cape Town Toxic leadership is characterised by a number of familiar traits: unwillingness to take feedback, lying or inconsistency, cliquishness,...
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What is Wisdom, and is it Unwise to Pursue it?
Embed from Getty Images By Thaddeus Metz, University of Johannesburg What is wisdom? Some would say that I am unwise for seeking to answer such a big question here. That is a useful point – to know...
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Being Black in a White Skin: Students with Albinism Battle Prejudice
Embed from Getty Images By Eleanor Ross, University of Johannesburg Myths and stereotypes about albinism abound. People with the condition are called derogatory names, like inkawu – the Nguni term for...
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Are Africa’s ‘Men of God’ Preserving Injustices Against Women?
Embed from Getty Images By Akosua Adomako Ampofo, University of Ghana Adoley and her husband Mike (not their real names) attend one of Ghana’s mega churches. Both are university graduates. She is a...
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A Sex Worker’s view on South Africa’s Latest Plans to Beat HIV
Embed from Getty Images By Susann Huschke, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa recently launched a five-year plan to improve the country’s response to HIV, TB and sexually transmitted...
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From the Margins, Reggae in South Africa Continues to Struggle for Human Dignity
Tuomas Järvenpää, University of Eastern Finland Anthropologist Carole Yawney has documented how on the eve of South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 the African National Congress (ANC)...
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New Research Pokes Holes in the Idea That Men Don’t Look After Their Kids
Embed from Getty Images — Zoheb Khan, University of Johannesburg South Africa has one of the highest rates of absent fathers in sub-Saharan Africa. As many as 60% of children in the country under the...
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Why Women Should Have More of a Say in Male Rites of Passage
Mmampho KB Gogela, Walter Sisulu University Each year scores of boys from the amaXhosa nation take part in ulwaluko in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. This involves the boys living in secluded...
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Why I Use Harry Potter to Teach a College Course on Child Development
Georgene Troseth, Vanderbilt University In an effort to find a more engaging way to present child development to new psychology students, I decided to use a book about a little orphan boy who later...
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Explainer: What’s at Stake in Kenyan Court Case on Gay Rights
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds The much-awaited court ruling on a petition seeking to decriminalise homosexuality in Kenya has been delayed for at least a further two months. The petition...
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How Young Filmmakers are Protecting Artistic Freedom in Kenya
Samson Kaunga Ndanyi, Rhodes College Artistic freedom was always tenuous in Kenya, but it’s become even less so since Uhuru Kenyatta became president in 2013. The political pendulum has swung against...
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South Africa Gets Help Tracking Down Social Media Predators Ahead of Poll
Martin Plaut, School of Advanced Study Can South Africa really hold a general election on the 8th of May in a way that it really represents the views of its people? One might have thought this was an...
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