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From Cradle to Grave: How Food Shapes the Journey of Life
8th October 2024 Many of the most significant dates of the human experience are accompanied by a meal. When celebrating a birthday or a funeral, food is involved in... →
Civic Education Project Launch and Stakeholder Roundtable Meeting
8th October 2024 From approximately twenty-eight million registered South African voters for the 2024 National Elections, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)... →
International Day of Non-Violence: Balancing Protest and Peace
8th October 2024 October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, marks the International Day of Non-Violence, a global call to action for peaceful conflict resolution... →
World Teachers' Day: A vocation that shapes the world
8th October 2024 Every year on October 5th the global community takes a day to celebrate and memorialise teachers around the globe. Teachers play a critical role in... →
South Africa’s GNU faces an uphill battle on migration policy
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 7th October 2024 Can the Government of National Unity reconcile its members’ competing interests and achieve a pragmatic, unified approach? Migration has become a... →
Building for Africa’s water security
By: In On Africa IOA 4th October 2024 Water shortages have either created or exacerbated humanitarian crises in Africa, stalling economic development. Climate change, through worsening... →
Extreme weather is disrupting lives in southern Africa: new policies are needed to keep the peace
4th October 2024 Over the past decades, heavy and more frequent rainfall and dry spells in southern Africa have caused loss and damage to agriculture, livestock,... →
Trophy hunting is decimating super tuskers on the Kenya-Tanzania border
4th October 2024 Despite an agreement between Kenya and Tanzania prohibiting borderland hunting, Tanzania has allowed the hunting of bull elephants to expand.... →
Fact-checking president Tinubu's claims about Nigeria's economic successes in his Independence Day speech
By: Africa Check 4th October 2024 On 1 October 2024, Nigeria’s president Bola Tinubu addressed the nation in a speech to mark the 64th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. The... →
Mix(ed) messages 
By: Terence Creamer 4th October 2024 It’s time for South Africa to interrogate its policy of pursuing a so-called ‘energy mix’, which may sound reasonable, but which has become little... →
