To achieve diversity in medical schools, we need to look at the stories behind the numbers.
Articles on Social justice
Displaying 301 - 320 of 485 articles
COVID-19 has hit college and universities particularly hard, but do ‘nonessential’ employees have to suffer?
It is rare for a post-authoritarian society to get two chances to reconcile. This may be just that, for white South Africans in particular.
Study presents a model that can be scaled to improve learning outcomes and transition rates for young people living in urban informal settlements.
South Africa’s numerous interventions in Lesotho contribute to the acrimonious nature of its political culture.
The loss of livelihoods flowing from the efforts to combat the pandemic highlights the dearth of social protection measures on the continent.
Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn faith is often dismissed as a cult. But many of the group’s fantastical rituals are a recognizable reaction to this harsh world of inequality, loneliness and pandemics.
Power is visibly draining away from Tom Thabane. But, even at 80 years old, he remains a wily operator, and seems determined to cause maximum trouble to secure his immunity from prosecution.
One of the key economic mitigating measures put in place after the country’s COVID-19 lockdown has had very little uptake by employers and will leave miillions of workers without any cover.
Empatheatre’s latest production is more than a play about three characters who live near the sea. It’s a model for collective consultation on how to save the ocean.
Prison life is about routine: each day like the one before; each week like the one before it, so that the months and years blend into each other.
The doctrine of equality is ingrained both in theory and in the express provisions of Lesotho’s constitution.
The 17 goals seek to end all forms of poverty everywhere by 2030, by achieving 169 targets. Progress in achieving them does not match the hype.
The African Union’s staunch support for al-Bashir, cloaked in criticism of the International Criminal Court, denied justice to the millions affected by the conflict in Sudan.
Short-term schemes make it difficult to assess, but nine basic income-style programmes from Canada to Iran reveal some fascinating outcomes.
Most of the community radio stations operate on a survivalist level, and should be seen as struggling small, medium and micro enterprises.
The Dos Santos family and their supporters claim they are the objects of political persecution.
Refugee legislation introduced after the end of apartheid was lauded as being progressive. But implementation has fallen short of international standards.
The precedent-setting ruling may cause jitters in dysfunctional municipalities around the country.
Underlying direct or personal violence is structural violence that is entrenched in unequal power relations in society.
Top contributors
-
Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
-
Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
-
Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, and acting SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law, University of Pretoria
-
Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
-
Professor and Research Theme Leader of the Flourishing Life Research Theme, University of the Free State
-
Chief Research Specialist., Human Sciences Research Council
-
Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Head of Department, Public and Environmental Law Department, University of Limpopo
-
Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
-
Research Director: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
-
Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor of African legal pluralism, University of the Western Cape
-
Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
-
Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand