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Paul Mashatile is set to become South Africa’s deputy president: what ...

February 19, 2023 no comments

Paul Mashatile was voted ANC deputy president in December 2022. Deaan Vivier/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape South Africa is set to have a new deputy...

Legal sex work in South Africa won’t create new problems, just help so...

November 2, 2022 no comments

Activists hold placards as they call for the decriminalisation of prostitution. MATTHEW KAY/AFP via Getty Images Rinda Botha, University of the Free State South Africa’s post apartheid government has...

Why students don’t attend lectures: what we found at a South African u...

October 9, 2021 no comments

Christie Swanepoel, University of the Western Cape; Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape, and Rochelle Beukes Over the last couple of decades, factors influencing the success of first-year univer...

Risks and rewards for South African president as he takes the stand at...

April 28, 2021 no comments

Richard Calland, University of Cape Town President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to appear before the Zondo Commission of inquiry into corruption in South Africa comes at a delicate time. A great deal h...

Precarious power tilts towards Ramaphosa in battle inside South Africa...

April 21, 2021 no comments

Susan Booysen, University of the Witwatersrand It appears, for the moment, that South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has won a key battle in the war for control of the governing African National C...

Why South Africa’s HIV prevention programmes should include sex ...

March 29, 2021 no comments

Monique Huysamen, Manchester Metropolitan University and Marlise Richter, University of the Witwatersrand There are around 150,000 sex workers in South Africa. The National Strategic Plan on HIV iden...

A close look at how the net has tightened on the right to protest in S...

March 26, 2021 no comments

Jane Duncan, University of Johannesburg South Africa’s public order policing is as ill as it ever was. This has been illustrated in recent student protests spreading across the country’s campuses. In...

The four big challenges facing Patrice Motsepe, Africa’s new soc...

March 26, 2021 no comments

Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe is set to become the eighth president of CAF – the Confederation of African Football – since 1957. He’ll take over fr...

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Starlink: SpaceX’s new internet service could be a gamechanger in Africa

6 March 2023

.SpaceX’s Starlink service is slowly arriving in Africa, starting with Nigeria and Rwanda Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock…

Why Russia is no friend of Africa – and why Ukraine deserves the support of all African countries

23 February 2023

Africa’s ignorance of the effects of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine may have contributed to the…