South Africa’s water, energy and food crises are interconnected. Coordinated funding across all three, including community-led and blended finance, is needed.
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The G20’s Women 20 group agreed that action is needed to stop unpaid care work and forced labour, and improve women’s health and climate leadership.
Africa’s drylands need support, but it shouldn’t overlook systems that people rely on.
Wastewater heat recovery, which recycles hot water from drains to preheat new water, could cut coal use, lower carbon emissions, and create local jobs in Zambia.
South Africa needs to take pragmatic steps to plug the shortcomings in the data that’s collected on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
There’s a significant shift towards the recognition of customary rights and the strengthening of women’s land rights.
Predictive maintenance has massive potential for keeping machines running smoothly.
Decades of experimentation revealed slow ecological processes and long-term interactions that have international scientific value.
The Johannesburg Market has many challenges, including poor governance and infrastructure decay. Its story underscores the need to protect such markets nationwide.
South African youth workers, despite limited resources, are finding creative ways to connect with young people through digital tools.
Development banks have spent over US$1 billion on factory farming in Africa, locking in high greenhouse gas emissions. Natural farming systems are a better choice.
By integrating HIV care with non-communicable disease prevention and care, healthcare systems can help people living with HIV remain healthy.
The most prominent news creators on social media and video networks are men and YouTube is the most important platform for them.
Governments across the world must look at alcohol and its related harms through the eyes of women and children who are mostly affected.
Some African countries have consumer protection laws that they could use to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for pretending to be green.
India links new rural power lines to solar projects, providing cleaner energy for farms, while South Africa has ways for communities to benefit from green energy profits.
Factors contributing to school violence are found in the family, the community and the school.
Long COVID isn’t purely a biological problem; it’s a human one, shaped by both physiology and lived experience.
Africa accounts for half of all stillbirths globally. Stronger data systems will drive smarter strategies and save lives.
Men and women experience and try to cope with stress in diverse ways.
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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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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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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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Professor of Sociology (Criminology, Victimology and Security Studies), 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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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University