The Conversation
US-Africa trade deal turns 25 next year: Agoa’s winners, losers and what should come next
7th May 2024 The African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) is a landmark piece of trade legislation enacted by the United States in 2000. Its goal is to promote... →
South Africa’s national student financial aid scheme has helped millions but is in trouble: here’s why
6th May 2024 The board of South Africa’s National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has been dissolved by the country’s higher education and training... →
African countries can’t resolve their debt crisis under a system rigged against them
6th May 2024 The debt situation in many African countries has escalated again to a critical juncture. Twenty are in, or at risk of, debt distress. Three... →
Waste pickers play a key role in the fight against plastic pollution – insights from South Africa into how their voices can be heard
3rd May 2024 Our addiction to plastics is trashing the planet, exacerbating global heating and threatening our very survival. Since 2022, the UN has been... →
The challenges African election bodies face go beyond ‘democratic backsliding’ – analysis
3rd May 2024 Election management bodies are essential democratic institutions. To deliver national polls effectively, they need to be properly resourced,... →
South Africa’s media have done good work with 30 years of freedom but need more diversity
2nd May 2024 In 1992, two years before the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela bemoaned the state of South Africa’s print media. He said the media’s domination by... →
South Africa’s Lemba people: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity is linked to one homeland
2nd May 2024 A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and their histories in... →
How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa
29th April 2024 Political history scholar Jonny Steinberg’s 2023 book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africa’s most famous... →
Owning a gun in South Africa offers some safety, but risks run high for users and society – expert
29th April 2024 South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, eclipsed only by Honduras and a handful of Caribbean island states. Furthermore,... →
South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs
26th April 2024 South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research. Some of the country’s researchers have made major... →
