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7 Mar 2022 | Science granting councils: Leading the way in gender and inclusivity
A regional consortium of experts with a unique approach to change is working with science granting councils (SGCs) in Sub-Saharan Africa to strengthen...
3 Mar 2022 | 'Universities must grasp the opportunity to change'
Mark Paterson and Thierry Luescher If African universities are to meet their mandate to support development on the continent, they must change with t...
25 Feb 2022 | Africa needs 'pluriversities' to respect more ways of knowing
Mark Paterson and Thierry Luescher Universities on the continent are so dominated by frameworks for understanding that were established in the Global...
24 Feb 2022 | Covid-19 Boosters: Why time is not enough to get people to line up for their next shot
According to health department data, 18.93% people vaccinated with Pfizer’s Covid vaccine don’t return for their second dose within 42 day...
24 Feb 2022 | Nation-wide survey of South African business innovation gets underway
Thursday, 24 February 2022 – On 14 March 2022 South Africa’s official Business Innovation Survey gets underway with fieldworkers rea...
24 Feb 2022 | The ANC's developmental state has failed - a synergistic approach is long overdue
A return to the principles of the Washington Consensus to rescue South Africa’s economy shows the hopelessness of the ANC’s current econom...
22 Feb 2022 | Come back for boosters: Why time alone is not enough to get people to line up for their next shot
Nearly one in five people don’t return for their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, health department data shows. The health department hopes th...
22 Feb 2022 | FED-UP SA CITIZENS TAKE TO THE STREETS, BLAMING FOREIGNERS FOR CRIME AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS
Most South Africans do not tolerate violence against non-South Africans, but the number who do is growing – including many of our politicians. N...
22 Feb 2022 | Overcoming the barriers of stuttering
STUTTERING can be debilitating and frustrating. This is something Dr Dane Isaacs knows all too well. As a person who stutters, he had to overcome many...
22 Feb 2022 | South Africa should design economic policy based on strengths of regions: here's how
ECONOMISTS and policy-makers seem to have a blind spot when thinking about how the economy functions and what determines success. Analytical framework...