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Archaeology can repair past harm, create work for people in the present and preserve cultural heritage for the future.
Survival depends on information and social networks.
The Lesotho-South Africa water deal was clinched during the apartheid era and without public consultation.
Warblers in high mountain wetlands change their dawn singing with temperature, rain, wind, humidity and moonlight, showing how weather shapes wildlife behaviour.
Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was early citizen science.
Despite the rising burden of stroke across Africa, there is no continent-wide framework or standardised protocol for stroke management.
Few Basotho remain who witnessed colonial life. Even fewer went on to build institutions that shaped independent governance and education.
There are about 40 occult-related gangs operating in one province. Understanding what draws young people to them is key to combating them.
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: massive regional economic repair.
Many in Africa, including governments and non-state parties to conflicts, don’t trust international law. They consider it intrusive.
A seven-year diplomatic dispute over the land earmarked for the ski resort ensured it was never built.
Lesotho, a constitutional monarchy, has been under domestic, regional and international pressure to change its constitution since 2012.
Motion deep in the Earth called a mantle wave can lift up the toughest parts of our planet.
The changes that were mapped represent the shift from a lake to the contemporary shallow wetland at the site.
The tunnel bringing millions of litres of water from dams in Lesotho to South Africa is to undergo a six-month repair. This could leave residents of Gauteng in South Africa short of water.
Problems identified include a backlog of visa, permit and status applications, fraudulent applications being first rejected, then accepted, and the system being used illegally.
Some time between 1100 and 1700 AD, a Massospondylus bone was discovered and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho.
Meteorites are usually discovered by someone who notices an unusual rock while out walking.
Fossilised tracks of a group of plant-eating dinosaurs have been found in Lesotho’s Roma Valley for the first time.
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Head of Department, Public and Environmental Law Department, University of Limpopo
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Associate Professor of African History, Michigan State University
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Researcher and curator, Jurassica Museum
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Professor of History, University of Limpopo
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Honorary Research Associate at Institute for Democracy Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town
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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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Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council