It’s not enough to simply promote healthy eating and exercise without considering the very real environmental and structural constraints present in South Africa.
Articles on Soweto
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Johannesburg Then and Now is an important book about what ought to be appreciated and “saved”.
Harmful pesticides have been found in the widely consumed sharptooth catfish found in a river that runs through Johannesburg.
Framing xenophobic violence as a question of immigrant victimisation invites divisions between neighbours.
Health workers promote exclusive breastfeeding to HIV positive mothers more than they do to mothers who are negative.
The persistence of Sam Nzima’s June 16 photograph is remarkable. The shadow in the photograph can be read as a metaphor for the rich debate that this image continues to bring to the surface.
Stories from the ground highlighted the unmet needs of people who are vulnerable and who are left behind.
About 60% of children in South Africa under 10 years don’t live with their biological fathers. But research sheds light on those who despite the pressures remain involved in their children’s lives.
South Africa’s governing ANC has always seen economic growth as the driving force for change. This was wishful thinking as the damage done by apartheid will take far more to undo.
Two of South Africa’s finest musicians, Johnny Mekoa and Ray Phiri, died recently. The permeable terrain between genres their careers negotiated, is being replaced by rigid marketing categories.
TV talk and makeover shows have a preference for spectacle and conflict. But new collaborative models may be the future.
A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.
Activists, health-care workers and scientists in South Africa were faced with a horrific epidemic but went on a ruthless crusade to turn it around.
Forty years after the students uprisings of 1976, South Africa is again in the midst of a political movement led by students.They have changed the tenor and shape of political discussion around education.
It is exactly forty years since the Soweto uprising in June 1976 where the South African police met the students with brutal force. How much has changed in terms of policing?
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town
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Distinguished Professor, Infectious Disease and Oncology Research Institute, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Executive Director Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Chief Scientific Officer, South African Medical Research Council
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Director: School for Biological Science, North-West University
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Researcher, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP); University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics and Public Finance, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town
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Assistant Professor in the history of Southern Africa, Durham University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Director: Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, North-West University
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Researcher, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University