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On 17 October the South African government introduced a Community Schemes Ombud Service for the swift and inexpensive resolution of disputes in community schemes of which sectional title schemes are the...
The evolution of individuality was first systematically addressed in a very influential book by Leo Buss in 1987. In this book he developed the concept that evolutionary innovations in replicator hierarchies...
The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South. Yet it simultaneously compelled rights activists to protect welfare entitlements in many countries....
Critics on both sides of the so-called ‘Afrikaans question’ tend to characterise the language as a hyper-local, and hence insulated, socio-cultural phenomenon. For supporters, this serves to foster...
Africa has been dependent on official development assistance or aid for decades. Despite the aid over the years, poverty remains widespread on the continent with 460 million people living below the extreme...
Two distinct, mutually influential, and globally inspirational black freedom struggles in the last half of the twentieth century – against segregation in the United States and apartheid in South Africa...
Hans V. Westerhoff will put together the theoretical foundations of today’s biology in a comprehensive new theory, by researching and establishing connections between the various theoretical approaches...
Globally there are calls for incentives for biodiversity conservation, including the mobilization of financial resources to implement biodiversity targets effectively. Multi-level governance has long been...
Against the background of ongoing debates about decolonisation and religion in Africa, this project examines the representation of, and engagement with Christianity in contemporary African literature....
For millennia humans have gazed into the sky and wondered where it all came from. Today, using cutting-edge supercomputer and telescope technology, numerical cosmologists are assembling a scientifically-based...
In ‘urban studies’, a varied area of research that crosses over many disciplines, two contemporary areas of focus that attract much attention are ‘southern urbanism’; and comparison of cities....
Skin stem cells give birth to daughter cells that eventually become specialized cells to form our protective, watertight skin and to produce hair. An imbalance of cell type composition, molecular signaling,...