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Blending livelihood strategies based on what works at different times in specific environments has been key to human survival for thousands of years.
Zimbabwe has large lithium deposits but most is extracted by multinational companies and exported raw. The country doesn’t benefit from lithium battery sales.
Knowing how mountain winds create fire conditions is useful for monitoring the danger.
Africa’s flowers have been meticulously documented across 1.9 million sites on the continent and in Madagascar.
Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.
Egypt has always relied on the River Nile for its freshwater but needs new sources to cope with a growing population. Desalinating seawater could be a solution.
Free trade may not be the best way for African counties to improve their food systems.
Current science communications in Cape Town are not serving the public well.
Researchers need to broaden their focus to include diverse aspects of male reproductive health.
A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of the power they contained.
A new book revisits her life, work and ideas and shows how relevant they still are today.
South African labels on food to show they’ve been produced in environmentally friendly ways are confusing and unhelpful.
Researchers are tracking multi-drug resistant bacteria in South Africa’s water to see how it endangers food safety when it’s used to irrigate crops.
Electric vehicles are expensive and yet to take off in South Africa. Wind and solar powered battery swapping stations could help motorists make the switch.
Green hydrogen is made from water and renewable energy and could be produced quite cheaply in Zambia using the hydropower and solar-based national grid.
Although symbolically visible in some places across the continent, Turkey’s presence remains a work in progress.
In South Africa’s Eastern Cape, water equipment needs replacement. Water payments should be kept aside to improve the service.
Global warming and droughts have caused Mauritius to run low on water. It needs hundreds of millions of dollars to build new reservoirs.
China’s military assistance to Mali could be damaging.
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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