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A healthy Earth needs its indigenous people

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They have played a crucial role in protecting biodiversity on their land but are largely relegated to the back seats in discussions at the local and international levels that aim to maintain ecosystems
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Homegrown vs Big Pharma: Who stands to benefit from the legal market for medical marijuana?

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Cannabis is scheduled for its South African parole on September 18. Kelly McQue’s handy medical marijuana producers’ guide is an opening salvo against corporate medicine’s demand for exclusive rights to the plant’s healing powers
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Meet Lula Ali Ismaïl, Djibouti’s ‘First Lady of Film’

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Lula Ali Ismaïl’s first feature-length film, Dhalinyaro, was a smash hit in her home country — and beyond
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Spain did it, so why can’t South Africa nationalise healthcare to save lives?

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South Africa is working towards establishing a publicly-funded universal health service and now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, is the time to implement it
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Olympics halt good for everyone

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They took time, but the International Olympic Committee have finally done the responsible thing and postponed Tokyo 2020
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4.6 million people, one psychologist: The Central African Republic’s mental health crisis

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Meet the Central African Republic’s only practising clinical psychologist
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Coronavirus reaction: Sinophobia with Western characteristics

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Western media has racialised the coronavirus outbreak, leading to increased Sinophobia in several countries. Such dehumanisation of a race has no place in functioning democracies
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Japan-style chain Miniso does a runner

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After being in South Africa for almost three years, Miniso left without a trace late last year. This exit has now left a group of franchisees, who have invested millions of rands in its stores, with massive losses
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WHO urges calm as China coronavirus death toll reaches 2000

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More than 74 000 people have now been infected by the virus in China, with hundreds more cases in some 25 countries
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China coughs, investors catch a chill

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The outbreak of the coronavirus is having a negative effect on global markets
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The global spread of the coronavirus: Where is it?

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A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 81 lives since emerging in a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and...
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End the global media crisis to build democracy

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Raising development assistance for the media could help to advance other development goals
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Musician hunted in Kenya, humiliated in South Africa, at home in Canada

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After coming out as gay, the Kenyan musician fled to South Africa seeking asylum. Yet he faced discrimination here too
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Strip away the blackface that causes so much pain

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Canada’s leader, seen as an antidote America’s Donald Trump, is accused of concealing prejudice
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Finished at 23, eSports players peer nervously into retirement

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In the most frenzied eSports games, players can be finished by 23 because reactions supposedly slow after that
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Covid-overflow hospital in ruins as SIU investigates

khaya koko
A high-level probe has begun into hundreds of millions of rand spent by the Gauteng health department to refurbish a hospital that is now seven months behind schedule – and lying empty

Pay-TV inquiry probes the Multichoice monopoly

Sarah Smit
Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

​No apology or comfort as another Marikana mother dies without justice

Niren Tolsi
Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre

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