Despite the conclusion of South Africa's G20 presidency, the nation remains committed to advocating for African debt sustainability and addressing the continent's ...
Michael Watson, the Interim Associate Chair and Instructor of Retailing at the University of South Carolina, explains why shoes designers keep making them this way. ...
University of Johannesburg professors Ugljesa Radulovic and Tina Uys recently published a paper highlighting stories of a selection of whistleblowers spanning five ...
Researchers William Feeney, James Kennerley, Niki Teunissen have published a study that suggests over 20 species of birds from all around the world that are separated ...
Archaeologist Professor Tim Forssman and Justine van Heerden have designed a mobile museum featuring objects from teaching collections, pieces of pottery or stone ...
Egypt’s heat and terrain made it difficult for such studies to be conducted but lead researcher Adeline Morez Jacobs and team made a breakthrough.
The South African government plans to ban tiny plastic beads found in some cleaning products, including cosmetics. Ocean and water pollution specialists Anusha Rajkaran ...
Their research found that more than 3,500 individual animals were advertised for sale via these channels over a 17 month period.
Karin ModigAssociate Professor in Epidemiology,at the Karolinska Institutet, writes that the finding that centenarians manage to delay, and in some cases avoid, ...
Masako Toki writes that the voices of the Hibakusha offer not only memory, but also moral clarity in an age of growing peril.
Ivor Chipkin writes that the focus on civilian control of the police service has been replaced with efforts to establish party control.
The world appears to be facing an unprecedented upending of the post-1945 international legal order, writes Brian Brivati, a visiting Professor of Contemporary History ...
Michael A. Little, an anthropology professor who has spent his career studying human behavior, biology and cultures, readily admits that this would not be a pretty ...
Melanie Samson, an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg says research shows waste pickers collect 80%-90% of the used packaging and ...
Julie Reid , a professor at the University of South Africa, draws from first-hand accounts and over 600 cases from around the world of victims lured into scams or ...
Johann Kirsten, Director of the Bureau for Economic Research and Wandile Sihlobo Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, both from Stellenbosch University ...
Cranes are some of the world’s most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The wattled crane in South Africa was in decline, ...
Christophe Premat, Associate Professor in French Studies (cultural studies), and head of the Centre for Canadian Studies, Stockholm University reflects on Mudimbe's ...
Matías Mattamala, a Postdoctoral Researcher from the Oxford Robotics Institute at the University of Oxford, discuss what would be needed for Corleo to achieve a ...
There were many unusual aspects of Pope Francis’ papacy. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas (and the southern hemisphere), the first to choose ...
Early Christians started marking bread with a cross to show their devotion, and ate it throughout the year. They believed the cross kept away evil spirits and helped ...
Kylie Thomas, Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer at Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, ...
Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu, a doctoral researcher and lecturer at Aberystwyth University in Wales, writes about superstition-driven crimes against vulnerable groups ...
The Fulani have long intrigued social anthropologists with their complex cultural heritage. They raise mainly cattle, goats and sheep in the vast, arid Sahel region. ...