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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...

State capture report chronicles extent of corruption in South Africa. ...

January 8, 2022 no comments

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has delivered his first report on state capture to South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo by Veli Nhlapo/Sowetan/Gallo Images via Getty Images Richard Calla...

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...

Why the push led by South Africa to revoke Israel’s AU observer status...

September 17, 2021 no comments

Hussein Solomon, University of the Free State The announcement in July that Israel had been formally granted observer status at the African Union drew a sharp reaction from some countries on the cont...

Meet – Dr Sandile Kubheka, at age 20, he made history by qualify...

July 4, 2021 no comments

Meet – Dr Sandile Kubheka, at age 20, he made history in South Africa and on the African continent as well by qualifying to be a Medical Doctor. He started primary school at the age of five, co...

Jacob Zuma isn’t a man with a cause. Just a wily politician trying to ...

July 4, 2021 no comments

Mcebisi Ndletyana, University of Johannesburg South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruling to imprison the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, was unprecedented. But it wasn’t unexpected. The autho...

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...

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