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The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer has been asked to look into whether British financial institutions, either wittingly or unwittingly, facilitated transactions linked to South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family. Lord Hain explains why he’s raised the issue.
There are medical equipment "graveyards" all over Africa, where devices are dumped because they aren't built for local conditions and staff in hospitals and clinics aren't trained to use them. The continent needs to start producing its own medical technology and, writes Tania Douglas, a strong cadre of biomedical engineers will be key to making this happen.
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South African President Jacob Zuma. Mounting allegations of corruption at home are having international repercussions.
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Peter Hain, University of the Witwatersrand
There are disturbing questions around the complicity - witting or unwitting - of UK global financial institutions in the transnational network set up by President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family.
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Science + Technology
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Tania Douglas, University of Cape Town
African countries need to start producing and developing their own medical devices. Suitably skilled biomedical engineers are needed for this sort of innovation to take root.
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Politics + Society
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Amanda Gouws, Stellenbosch University
The #Metoo campaign shows that we should not think of Harvey Weinstein as an isolated case, or just one bad apple. There are thousands more like him. Globally, sexual harassment has become normalised.
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Arts + Culture
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David Worth, University of Cape Town
From a heritage perspective, the transformation of Cape Town's grain elevator into an art museum delivers an innovative and creative solution to retaining and reusing industrial heritage sites.
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From our international editions
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Cynthia Hooper, College of the Holy Cross
Because the Kremlin hopes to project strength and unity, history isn't used as much to inform as it is to inspire, with events cherry-picked to fit within a fuzzy framework of 'Russian greatness.'
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Gordon Hull, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
A scholar asks whether democracy itself is at risk in a world where social media is creating deeply polarized groups of individuals who tend to believe everything they hear.
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Christopher Davidson, Durham University
There are strong signs that Riyadh has begun a campaign to promote regime change. But the Saudi strategy appears to be backfiring.
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Andrew King, University of Melbourne; David Karoly, University of Melbourne
This year is poised to go down as the hottest non-El Niño year ever recorded, with record low polar ice and extreme weather that left many regions battling bushfires and hurricanes.
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