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1 month ago

Midwives: The Workforce That Will Determine Maternal and Newborn Survival and Africa’s Future

Tonight, thousands of women across Africa will give birth. Whether they survive to see daylight will largely depend on where they live, how quickly they reach care, and whether the health system aroun...

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1 month ago

Solar surges in DR Congo as miners demand power

Solar panel imports have increased amid rising demand from mining companies. Can the technology prove key to connecting off-grid communities?

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1 month ago

ANC’s ‘purge without a plan’ may create the opposition it fears

The ANC’s last-minute decision to remove more than 350 candidate councillors before the 4 November local government elections exposes organisational weakness and risks creating covert internal resista...

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1 month ago

The plant ecology and fynbos recovery of Lower Tokai — an alternative view

Full restoration of pristine Cape Flats Sand Plain Fynbos in Lower Tokai might be achievable in 100 to 200 years. A more honest and achievable path is a dedicated Sand Plain Fynbos ‘garden.’

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Legislation Update

1 month ago

Who owns SA’s wildlife? Hunting quotas and the quiet rewriting of our biodiversity compact

Are we watching the transfer of a common biodiversity heritage into a private wildlife economy, one trophy, one regulation and one policy decision at a time?

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1 month ago

From abundance to aridity — El Niño poses threat to SA’s summer grain crop

Following a strong harvest, South African farmers prepare for a challenging summer grain season, with rising El Niño conditions threatening severe late-season drought and heatwaves.

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1 month ago

South Africans need to wake up to the many crippling costs of corruption

Until ordinary citizens stop dismissing corruption as a peripheral issue, and stop voting for corrupt leaders, they won’t get a safe and stable South Africa country in their lifetimes.

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1 month ago

Can Johannesburg fix its books before the doom loop wins?

It has a name: fiscal fiction. Spending as though the cash were already in the bank. But increasingly, it isn’t. A new report from the Centre for Development and Enterprise shows just how far Johannes...

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1 month ago

Implementation stands between Africa and its critical minerals opportunity

Africa holds mineral deposits the modern world depends on, and critical minerals policies are being drafted across the continent, but the test is whether they can produce investment environments predi...

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1 month ago

Discovery of ancient DNA from antelope fossils in South Africa opens a new window on the past

Researchers managed to extract DNA from African fossils dating back to the last ice age.

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ESG Report

1 month ago

Africa gets only 23% of the climate finance it needs – and pays too much for it

Climate finance should not be separated from development funding.

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Risk Alert

1 month ago

Ebola and Africa’s Preparedness Dividend: From Crisis to Capability

Africa is facing its 17th Ebola outbreak, and this time the continent is meeting it with the most capable response architecture it has ever assembled. The outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

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