An illegal money changer holds bond notes outside a bank in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare.
Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo
Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
Years of political instability and economic mismanagement under the rule of ZANU-PF have left Zimbabwe’s financial system in chaos. The country is living on borrowed time and borrowed money.
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Politics + Society
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Anine Kriegler, University of Cape Town
Poor leadership in crime intelligence and a struggling detective service are affecting the ability of South Africa - where a murder happens every 28 minutes - to bring down crime.
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Education
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Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria
South Africa must act to halt the decline and save its universities' well deserved global reputation of excellence.
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Health + Medicine
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Moses Masika, University of Nairobi
A strike by Kenyan nurses points to the country's failure to manage the devolution of responsibility for health care from national to county governments.
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From our international editions
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Peter Marshall, University of Warwick
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Rachel Caufield, Drake University
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Bamo Nouri, City, University of London
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Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University; Linda Saab, Wayne State University
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