Since the start of the Madlanga Commission, South Africans have become acquainted with almost all of the country’s justice and crime-fighting bodies.
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Fidelity Bank Ghana, through its Partnerships, Sustainability & CSR Unit, in collaboration with UNU‑INRA, successfully hosted a webinar titled“Understanding Climate Risk: Lessons from Recent Accra Floods.”
Afrophobia in South Africa is often presented as a problem of ‘foreigners versus locals’, as though it emerges naturally from cultural hostility or competition between poor people. But this explanation hides the deeper political and economic realities that produce anti-immigrant violence and xenophobic mobilisation. The rise of Afrophobia in South Africa cannot be understood outside…
While virologists and public health departments were palpitating over the news of an Andes virus infectious disease outbreak on a cruise ship (13 cases, three deaths), in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the Bundibugyo virus, the root of the current Ebola outbreak (currently more than 1,250 cases and at least 362 deaths), was smouldering…
The matter originated with an urgent application lodged by Springpoint Finance (Pty) Ltd, an employer, against a former employee and her new employer, Multivest Financial Planning (Pty) Ltd. The application sought to enforce a restraint of trade agreement. The respondents, the employee and Multivest, opposed the application
The release of a new set of population projections by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in July 2020 was greeted with extensive coverage in the media and stimulated fresh debate among demographers about calculation and communication of projections. Sound population projections serve a critical purpose. They enable policymakers, researchers, and planners to…