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AGRICULTURE

Rural retreat: Allowing people to return home during lockdown could turn a tide

It is important to note that the phenomena of translocality and circular migration in Africa have often served as a strategy of resilience in tough times

  • Leslie Bank
8 min read
Migrants are blamed for causing South Africa’s problems, particularly by groups such as Operation Dudula, which acts in defiance of the Constitution and laws regarding education and health. Photo: AFP
COUNTRY

Prejudice against immigrants cuts across class and race

Xenophobia, the study shows, is part of a broader problem of prejudice in South African society

  • Jacques Coetzee 1
3 min read
State-orchestrated famine as genocide, however, has never been prosecuted as a crime.
HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF

The world ignores Yemen’s humanitarian crisis

The state is using famine as a weapon of war but SA abstained in a UN human rights resolution

  • Mia Swart
4 min read
Factors such as crime
HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF

SA must up its skills in wooing skilled migrants ― report

South Africa’s job opportunities, established education system and modern technology attract skilled immigrants to the country, the report noted

  • Thulebona Mhlanga
3 min read
“Having to use English removes us from our cultures. It others us.”
HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF

Searching for new queer terms

Words in local languages to describe queer people are offensive and in English are inaccessible

  • Carl Collison
7 min read
The apparent benefits of the internship model need to be offset by operational, political and academic challenges
ANTIRETROVIRALS

Research: More than 50 000 teachers at public schools are living with HIV

The purpose of the research was to look at the health and wellbeing of public schools, with specific focus on the HIV profile of school leadership

  • Bongekile Macupe
4 min read
HIV

SA has highest number of new HIV infections worldwide – survey

With over 400 000 new HIV infections occurring in 2012, South Africa ranks first in HIV incidence in the world, says an HSRC survey.

  • Mia Malan
6 min read
ADAM HABIB

Tsvangirai set for Mugabe showdown

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader looked set on Sunday to return home from South Africa to face Robert Mugabe in a presidential run-off poll despite a risk of "more violence, more…

  • Ade Obisesan
5 min read