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Issues of gender and sexuality have been strongly debated in South Africa’s new democracy. From the National Women’s Coalition (NWC) in the early 1990s who influenced the progressive gender dimension of South Africa’s current Constitution to the protests of the late 1990s and early 2000s led by gay and lesbian activists. Still further, the Fees Must Fall movement in 2015 and 2016 put the issue of intersectionality square on the agenda for decolonising post-Apartheid society.
Yet, gender studies are still largely missing from university curricula and, in the realm of social policy, ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often and incorrectly conflated. The reporting of cases of femicide, intimate partner violence, and gender-based violence – which has sadly also affectedUJ students – have sparked public outrage and inspired numerous academic studies that attempt to understand how issues of patriarchy, heterosexism, and rape culture function and occur
Vaccine hesitancy in South Africa is a growing threat to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic but health workers remain resolute that access to a vaccine will save lives.
Western Cape residents are more hesitant to use vaccines, survey shows
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Cape Town - Findings from a recently published survey reported that vaccine hesitancy is more likely to be experienced in the Western Cape, compared to other provinces.
Wave 4 of the National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM), a national representative survey of South Africa, was launched yesterday.
The NIDS-CRAM Wave 4 data was collected between February 2 and March 10, 2021, with 5 629 Wave 4 interviews conducted.
NIDS-CRAM respondents have been surveyed four times since the start of the pandemic.
Forty-two percent of Afrikaans home language respondents were vaccine hesitant, much higher than the national average (29%) and significantly higher than 7 of the 11 language groups.
Achieving environmental sustainability through an accelerated decarbonisation agenda continues to gain momentum. But the plans that will ensure a just energy transition is achieved are stagnant. However, the reduction of carbon emissions is squarely on the agenda as climate mitigation measures are progressing, although climate adaptation lags behind in South Africa.
The recent 2020 Energy Transition Index (ETI) issued by the World Economic Forum ranked South Africa 110 out of 115 countries that are implementing an energy transition. Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Austria are the top six countries that lead the ETI.
This means that a solid plan is needed in South Africa to diminish the prospects for an