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latest news & developmentsHIV made him expect to die at 40. At 73, Edwin Cameron asks: Who’s planning for our ageing survivors?
At 33, the retired Constitutional Court justice thought he had, maybe, seven years left. His story traces the arc from certain death because of Aids to a chronic, manageable…
Remembering fashion icon Andre Leon Talley
A year after the death of the king of caftans, we remember the first black man to be a creative director at Vogue magazine
UK decision to ban trophy-hunting imports disregards South Africa’s conservation success, government says
Animal rights groups say trophy hunting is unsustainable in sub-Saharan Africa, but research finds a ban on imports could have negative socioeconomic consequences
Covid jab tech helps fight malaria
An estimated two-thirds of malaria deaths are among children under the age of five, most of them in Africa.
Khaya Sithole: The perils of vaccine nationalism
If distribution of the eventual Covid-19 vaccine occurs along economic and political lines, all countries will remain at risk
Q&A: 9 things to know about Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccine trial
In about a year we’re likely to know if a candidate vaccine we’re beginning to test this week is effective against a virus that has devastated our country
Being a mensch first, Edwin-style
Above all, Justice Cameron learned and taught that you can never judge anybody by their cover
Cambridge University investigates its links to slavery
The two-year project will seek ‘appropriate ways to publicly acknowledge past links to slavery and to address its impact’
How the UN’s new strategy could help development goals in the Eastern Cape
In 2015, countries committed to the UN’s sustainable development goals in an effort to end, for example, poverty, hunger and inequality
Wits outshines Oxford in UN study on gender parity
Ten universities in UN Women project on employment parity and ending violence were the ‘guinea pigs’
Eddie Ndopu is ready, willing and able to conquer space
Brilliant South African on his way to Oxford despite needing full-time medical care.
Rare Shakespeare folio worth millions turns up on Scottish Isle
Four hundred years after the death of world-renowned playwright William Shakespeare, a rare folio of his work from the 1600s has been found.
Tertiary institutions must initiate change, not pacify donors
The Rhodes Trust tries to mollify criticism of Cecil John Rhodes’s legacy while not offending its wealthy alumni and other donors.
#RhodesMustFall: Oxford alumni keep the colonial fires burning
Mr Chancellor, you canvassed only imperialist beneficiaries about whether the statue of Cecil Rhodes should stay, writes Carina Venter.
Oxford’s racist ‘superiority’ is founded in Christian myopia
To build a more pluralistic, peaceful world, denunciations of what others hold sacred and assertions of superiority must be avoided.