What Helps Young Children Learn?
Reading together and taking an interest in homework makes a difference to young children’s learning.
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Shopping for God in Lagos: What Is Chrislam?
To secure health and wealth, many people combine elements from different religious traditions. One such movement is Chrislam.
Can Africa Survive the Global Aid Squeeze? Yes, but It Will Take Financial Discipline
Africa does not need another grand vision. It needs to treat the vision it already has as a discipline.
Internet Access Is Unequal in South Africa’s Economic Powerhouse: Survey Shows Race and Income Mark the Digital Divide
Access to the internet in South Africa’s economic powerhouse, Gauteng, is marked by inequalities.
When Global Trade Becomes a Weapon
Africa needs to navigate the tension between interdependence, economic security, and economic diversification.
Free State Education Department Withholds Funds From Schools
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) condemns the bully tactics of the Free State Education Department, which has unilaterally decided to withhold a portion of public schools’ resource allocations without proper consultation or notifying the relevant schools and their governing bodies. The Freedom Front Plus demands an explanation for why these funds are being withheld […]
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Judge Tells Minister to Get Water to Eastern Cape Families
Centane residents win court victory
Informal Workers in Lagos Are Left to Cope With Devastating Floods Alone: Why Things Must Change
Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.
Millions of Farmers in Africa’s Great Lakes Region Face Rising Temperatures. Study Predicts How Crop Disease and Pests Could Spread
Figuring out how climate change will cause plant disease and pests to spread across Africa’s Great Lakes farms is critical for future food supplies.
Public Gets Three More Weeks to Comment on Eskom Nuclear Site — But Critics Say It’s Not Enough
The deadline for public comment on the 2,700-page draft environmental scoping report and appendices has been extended to 25 May
Mozambique’s Economy Is Failing: The Tough Policy Choices That Need to Be Made Urgently
Economic conditions for ordinary Mozambicans are deteriorating. Poverty has risen, public services are unreliable and there are few decent job opportunities.
Finance for Clean Energy Doesn’t Reach Projects in Africa – The Credit Rules Are Out of Date
Africa’s clean energy funding would work much better if projects could borrow on fairer terms, and have longer to pay back loans.
Constitutional Court Rules Human Rights Commission Cannot Issue Binding Directives
The apex court has dismissed the SAHRC’s appeal to have its directives automatically enforced but insists it remains a “potent” rights guardian
Young Africans Will Inherit a Climate Crisis: How Kids in Sierra Leone Are Getting Ready
Young people in Bo City, Sierra Leone became youth climate leaders after turning a low-cost Climate Science Hub into a space for science-informed action.
Slovo Park: A Decade of Winning in Court, Losing on the Ground
After decades of struggle, residents still lack sanitation and water infrastructure
Quota Bungle: Small-Scale Fishers Battle to Survive
Several West Coast cooperatives given even lower allocations than they had before their appeals
A “Subscription Model” for Basic Rights
The Draft 2026/27 Budget effectively formalises a "City-as-a-Service" model, where the privilege of being a resident is increasingly defined by mandatory, high-cost subscriptions rather than actual service usage.
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Mining Company Linked to Zimbabwean President Is Destroying Famous Landmarks
Chenxi Investments has been fined but continues stripping vegetation and polluting rivers
New Play Honours Murdered Environmental Activist Fikile Ntshangase
Isitha Sabantu explores the threats that climate activists face
China in Africa: Investment and Trade Work Well When There’s Strong Oversight, and Badly When There Isn’t
Strong institutions ensure that foreign investment supports sustainable growth rather than environmental decay.
Arms Committee Fails to Explain SA’s Weapon Sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE
National Conventional Arms Control Committee has not filed record of decisions despite being ordered to do so by the High Court in 2021
But Does It?
Women farmers in KwaZulu-Natal have had to abandon their fields because the government has failed to maintain irrigation systems built in the apartheid era.
Premier Should Use SOPA to Demonstrate That Residents Come First
With his State of the Province Address (SOPA) on 5 March, Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu should demonstrate that residents’ concerns come first, and not the ANC’s interests. The challenges communities face daily can no longer be ignored. These include residents’ safety and security, the province’s economic stability and the people’s future. Pressing issues that warrant […]
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Government Admits to Major Challenges at Mbombela Master’s Office
Backlogs and a shortage of properly qualified personnel have led to a crisis at the office