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When tit-for-tat is self-defeating

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Feb 2018

This strategy from game theory, useful in many situations, doesn’t work for depression

Mental health dossier has more than a dose of madness

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Aug 2012

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is one of the most important documents in all of medicine, psychology and psychiatry.

There is a crisis, minister

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Jun 2012

There are ways in which teachers can compensate for government's incompetence.

Suffer the sense of belonging

Article Staff Reporter - 24 May 2012

Recent allegations about the rape initiation of a pupil at a rugby camp raises the question of why such practices exist in our supposedly modern era.

Apartheid psychology persists in schools

Analysis Staff Reporter - 27 Jan 2012

Few people realise how far South Africa's education system has come since the dawn of democracy in 1994.

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Traditional healers need new spaces

john molebatsi & christina breed & gary ivan stafford - 24 Nov 2020

Proper facilities supported by well-researched cultural principles will go a long way to improving the image and perception of the practice of traditional medicine

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Limpopo big-game farmer accused of constant harassment

Lucas Ledwaba - 23 Nov 2020

A family’s struggle against alleged intimidation and failure to act by the authorities mirrors the daily challenges farm dwellers face

National

Zondo tightens his grip with criminal complaint against Zuma

Sarah Smit - 23 Nov 2020

The state capture commission’s star witness now faces a criminal complaint and another summons

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Staff Reporter - 26 Nov 2020

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special reports - 25 Nov 2020

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Land reform still a hot potato

special reports - 24 Nov 2020

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special reports - 24 Nov 2020

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Inclusion as learned experience in higher education

special reports - 23 Nov 2020

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special reports - 20 Nov 2020

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special reports - 20 Nov 2020

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