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South Africans go to the polls next year for a national election that could see major shifts in voting patterns. Recent research suggests two major changes may be on the cards. The first is a significant dip in the level of support for the African National Congress. The second is that party loyalty has been replaced with concerns about how the country is being run. Leila Patel unpacks the findings.
Portrayals of Rwanda in film and television can often spark controversy. But Jonathan Bell thinks a new BBC drama, Black Earth Rising, contains an impressive in-depth examination of post-genocide political events. One that has much needed nuance.
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Voters line up in South Africa’s last election. Their concerns are shifting.
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Leila Patel, University of Johannesburg
South African voters are worried about how their country is being run. Most still support the ANC but in far fewer numbers.
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Politics + Society
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Jonathan R. Beloff, SOAS, University of London
The BBC drama about Rwanda tackles post-genocide events in a way few dramas or documentaries have done before.
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Henning Melber, University of Pretoria
The question of land has been hotly contested in Namibia ever since independence.
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Education
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Ahmed Essop, University of Johannesburg
Global university rankings are based on a snapshot of institutional performance. A gain by one institution is a loss by another.
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Science + Technology
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Alison Gillwald, University of Cape Town
We don't have the data in developing countries, and in global statistics to know if the digital divide is being closed.
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From our international editions
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Valentina Gallo, Queen Mary University of London
New study finds association between how gender equal a country is and how many children die before they reach age five.
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Jack Rogers, University of Exeter
Satoshi Nakamoto proposed Bitcoin in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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