Mason tirelessly sought to convince officials of the need to recognise and celebrate the African past, and the role that African people played in the making of modern South African society.
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History shows that treatments and vaccines have been accessible to African countries only after the loss of millions of lives and typically years - sometimes decades - after developed nations.
The culture of remembrance in Germany is viewed by many as exemplary. But it has some grave shortcomings.
The hunger, frustration and desperation of ordinary Namibians should be first on the political agenda. But this isn’t the case.
No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
It seems that former president FW De Klerk continues to find it hard to accept that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
In his new capacity as President of South Africa, FW de Klerk directly experienced for the first time how the international community had abandoned its support for minority white rule.
The Chinese model of peace differs fundamentally from that pursued by western nations.
A survey of San ostrich eggshell beads - a common find at archaeological sites - paints a bigger picture of hunter-gatherers, herders and shifting cultural tradition.
An archive project is restoring the secret history of Namibia’s resistance music culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s – suppressed and censored during apartheid but now touring the world.
For the first time since independence, Namibia’s ruling party has suffered electoral setbacks in the midst of economic and political crisis.
Namibia’s political stability so far has been vested in the dominance of Swapo. Those opposing its control face an uphill battle.
It’s imperative that we understand what creates and sustains the delta for the future management of the system.
Critics who called the show featuring Scarlett Moffatt ‘racist’ need to look at their own prejudices.
Many of the most fundamental aspects of TB disease remain unknown. For example, after exposure to the organism that causes TB, why do only some people get infected and only some of those fall ill?
Cape monkfish caught from some areas off Namibia’s coast should be screened for mercury and other heavy metals.
Genetic analysis has traced the evolutionary footsteps of modern humans all the way back to a prehistoric wetland that spanned parts of modern-day Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Urban dwellers who live in informal city settlements have limited access to basic services, and many of them don’t own the land they live on.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Political Science, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape
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Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
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Researcher in TESOL & Literacy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer, North-West University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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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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Afrobarometer Senior Analyst/Methodologist, University of Cape Town
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Yarik Turianskyi is Manager of the Governance and African Peer Review Mechanism Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs and guest lecturer in African Governance and Eastern European Politics, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
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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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Senior research scientist, Stellenbosch University