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Ironically, despite Afrikaners’ admixed roots, they rose to notoriety for their draconian laws that aimed to segregate groups of people to allow discrimination against those not of European descent.
The university's Tangible Heritage Conservation, the only one of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, has developed analytical techniques to study the materiality of artworks and objects.
A new study looks at the Igbos’ success from a management lens instead of an anthropological one.
April 28, 2021 South Africa has the highest number of Covid-19 cases on the African continent. It has more than 50,000 reported deaths. This may be an underestimate, looking at excess death statistics. The economic cost of the pandemic is evident on the streets and healthcare facilities have been under considerable strain during the waves of the pandemic. It was with much relief, elation, and a renewed sense of hope that many healthcare workers enrolled in the Johnson & Johnson vaccination trial mid-February and received their much-anticipated vaccination. But the relief and elation has given...
April 25, 2021 Coronavirus vaccines have been developed and deployed in record time, but as global rollout has progressed, too few doses have been made available in low-income countries. It’s a stark reminder that when it comes to infectious diseases, the world’s poorest often get left behind. This is a problem that extends far beyond COVID-19. In Africa, for example, malaria has probably caused four times as many deaths as Covid-19 over the past year. Thankfully, our new research shows that an effective vaccine against malaria could now be closer than ever before. For the first time, a v...