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What would a Wine win look like?

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Ugandans’ choice at the polls was more about stemming a sixth term for the Museveni regime than about actual policy
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Battery acid, cassava sticks and clothes hangers: We must end the global gag rule

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COMMENT: The US’s global gag rule blocks funding to any foreign NGOS that perform abortions, except in very limited cases. The Biden-Harris administration must rescind it
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ANC: ‘We’re operating under conditions of anarchy’

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In its latest policy documents, the ANC is self-critical and wants ‘consequence management’, yet it’s letting its members off the hook again
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DA moves to a ‘colour-blind’ future

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The official opposition said current ANC policies to undo historic economic injustices have only benefited an elite few
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Focus on digital content for teachers and schoolchildren

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Education policy has always been, and will continue to be, closely related to South Africans’ social conditions
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Wake up, there is no Planet B

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The environmental threat to humanity means world leaders must finish what they started
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Technology can uplift world’s ‘bottom billion’

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Technology is often oversold as either a panacea for the world’s problems or a curse inflicting disruption and displacement on the most vulnerable
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South Africa’s new higher education disability policy is important, but flawed

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South Africa has a new policy framework for students with disabilities but will it bring real change?
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Foreign doctorates are attractive ― but don’t write off homegrown PhDs

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There's strong evidence that, all things being equal, leading South African universities provide “world class” training at PhD level
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Dlamini-Zuma: SA needs credible stats for a better life for all

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Dlamini-Zuma says it is important to ensure the work of StatsSA remains relevant, and that policymakers and implementers use the data
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South Africa’s economy is badly skewed to the big guys: How it can be changed

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South Africa needs a robust economic policy agenda to make it more open, productive and inclusive
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ANC wants Brics ratings agency as policy

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​The ANC’s international relations subcommittee plans to push for the establishment of a Brics ratings agency to be official party policy.
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​Will Trump trash Brand America?

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US President Donald Trump could tip his country’s global image back into the negative if he continues to spout his campaign rhetoric.
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Grow your own marijuana policy

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With the US defying drug conventions it once policed so heavily, resistance is fertile.
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Water policy review will benefit all

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Comment by the deputy director general in the water affairs department and the department's media liaison officer.
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