The University of Cape Town (UCT) is consistently ranked as the top performing tertiary institution on the continent. In the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings released in October 2022, it had climbed to 160th in...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is consistently ranked as the top performing tertiary institution on the continent. In the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings released in October 2022, it had climbed to 160th in...
Hitmen for hire: Exposing South Africaโs underworld, Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2017ย In September 2022 the Global Initiative (GI) Against Transnational Organized Crime released a strategic assessment of the existential...
The rise of non-communicable diseases in Africa adds to COVID-19 stress The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has highlighted Africaโs vulnerability to disease in an unprecedented manner, laying bare years of under investment...
Malawi is investing heavily in a new coal-fired plant despite the countryโs stated commitment to renewables. Malawi plans to bankroll a coal-powered plant despite current worldwide disdain for using the fossil fuel....
Prior to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Cameroon, an oil exporter with a bloated bureaucracy, was still reeling from the 2014-2016 oil price collapse โ one of the most significant oil price slumps in modern...
South Africa already had a hunger crisis before the Covid-19 pandemic struck. As early as 2014, Oxfam reported that one in four South Africans went to bed hungry every day. About 17 million South Africans rely on the...