Projects

Oral diseases are among the most common and among the most neglected diseases of mankind. The disease burden is largely unknown to public health decision–makers; the significant impact of bad oral...

From #RhodesMustFall to #BlackLivesMatter, an important component of anti-racist protest movements has been concerns about epistemic injustice. Typical accounts of epistemic injustice focus on epistemic...

Homozygous Beta thalassaemia is a lifelong condition requiring regular blood transfusions from infancy.  The resulting iron overload damages the heart, liver and endocrines organs in particular, but can...

There is a fairly substantial literature on the manner and extent to which universities engage with society. Such engagement takes many forms: service to underprivileged communities, fair access, contributions...

The global economic architecture has in recent decades undergone a significant level of reconfiguration in terms of trade and investments as a result of the emergence of China as a direct competitor to...

SME financing has often been described as the missing middle piece of finance as SMEs are less likely to obtain financing than larger corporates or even micro borrowers. This problem is not new and yet...

Despite tremendous economic growth rates, especially in rural areas of South Africa and in its neighbouring countries, there is still a subsistence economy predominant. Thus, access to simple and wealth-generating...

Science relies on numeric quantification, which can be traced back to Euclid, Galileo, and Newton. While  many now take this success for granted, some scientists have pondered the “unreasonable effectiveness ...

Mkhululi Mabija and Paul Castles as a librettist-compose team working on two companion pieces of alternative music theatre.  The road between the desert and the ocean explores what it is to have lived...

The main purpose of this project is to interrogate whether the challenges faced by the new generation of African constitutions to enhance the prospects for constitutionalism was due, inter alia, to their...

This project deals with the representation of the narrating animal in present-day African texts written in English, French and Portuguese. What these texts have in common is that they use the animal narrator...

Antibiotic resistant is a global problem that will only increase over time and is further highly relevant for the tuberculosis patients of South Africa. New drug targets and new approaches to develop novel...