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Three years ago, many Zimbabweans rejoiced when their long term despotic president Robert Mugabe was toppled in a coup and replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, who promised to put the country on a new path of peace and prosperity. He also promised a return to democracy and sound foreign and economic relations. The country, he said, was open for business. Henning Melber and Roger Southall outline how Zimbabwe’s efforts at rapprochement with the West have failed, and how its efforts to cosy up to China have also not gone that well.
South Africa lost one of its musical geniuses and treasures last week with the passing of Sibongile Khumalo. Christine Lucia pays tribute to a vocalist who made a place for everyone with her golden, melting voice that made all, young and old, rich and poor, professors and farmers, feel ‘at home’. She made everyone love her, too, no mean feat in the world of singers, especially opera singers. She was a prima donna, although not in temperament, and was most certainly South Africa’s ‘diva’.
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Thabo Leshilo
Politics + Society
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Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa meets his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping in Beijing, in 2018.
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Henning Melber, University of Pretoria; Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
The more President Mnangagwa's government fails to engage democratically with its own citizens, the more it will negate any prospect of re-engagement with the West.
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Sibongile Khumalo in New York in 2014, alongside McCoy Mrubata on tenor saxophone.
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Christine Lucia, Stellenbosch University
She was a vocalist who sang in every style – from Carmen to UShaka – with equal mastery, popularising classical forms and epitomising ‘the new South Africa’.
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Arts + Culture
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James Wintrup, University of Oslo
These medical volunteers have been closely associated with several kinds of non-human actors, whose behaviour is worth examining in more detail.
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Nina G. Jablonski, Penn State
Racism affects health and often leads to early death. We now know in greater and more alarming detail how this happens.
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From our international editions
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James Bowden, University of Strathclyde ; Edward Thomas Jones, Bangor University
The question is if and how the regulators can respond.
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Richard Bowman, University of Bath; Julian Stirling, University of Bath
An 'open' approach to hardware could make production bottlenecks a thing of the past.
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Sery Ernest Gonedelé Bi, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Cocody, Côte-d'Ivoire
Sous l’effet de la déforestation massive, les éléphants en Côte d’Ivoire connaissent un déclin désastreux qui les expose à la disparition si des mesures urgentes et agressives ne sont pas prises.
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Jérôme Chevalier, INSA Lyon – Université de Lyon; Christophe Garcia, INSA Lyon – Université de Lyon
Seulement 5 % à 15 % des personnes ayant besoin d’une prothèse y ont accès. Et si la solution venait d’une production locale par impression 3D ?
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