“The cost of living is gradually becoming more unbearable; all prices have doubled, for everything, with the pound losing its value. And now the cost of fuel is increasing significantly. How can I send my children to school this year…
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Africa is the cradle of humankind. All humans are descendants from this common pool of ancestors. Africa and its multitude of ethnolinguistic groups are therefore fundamental to learning more about humans and our origins. A genome is the complete set…
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Researchers at the University of Pretoria (UP) are producing unique nanobodies that could be of ground-breaking use in rapid tests and as a therapy for Covid-19. In tests conducted in collaboration with the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the…
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Voices from the farms: Part one of a three-part series focused on the lives, challenges and needs of farm dwellers, their relationship with the land and those who own it Details contained in an application for a protection order against…
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Universities aspire to be places and spaces where the relationship between ideas and values can be tested in a safe environment, and thus explored and evaluated with a view to understanding how society and learning may be transformed. Learning how…
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The Zondo Commission will lay a criminal complaint against Jacob Zuma for his absconding from the inquiry’s proceedings while he was still under a summons. Another summons will also be issued to the former president compelling him to appear before…
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In a typical year, reported the head of a business school in Singapore a few months into the Covid-19 global pandemic, the school campus would host about 9000 students from 100 countries on their executive training programmes. In 2020, that…
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At first, Lazarus Chakwera’s visit to South Africa, the regional superpower, was going really well. Malawi’s newly elected president had a good meeting with his counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, in Pretoria last Friday, and signed an important economic co-operation deal. At…
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A response to the article ‘Tax the superrich and raise inflation to cut state debt, inequality and poverty’ in the M&G on 10 November A recent opinion piece published in this newspaper mentions that, among other ways, the introduction of…
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