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Meningkatnya penggunaan AI dan machine learning dalam keputusan kebijakan publik menimbulkan kekhawatiran soal keadilan dan hak asasi.
Woven throughout the backstories of these characters is the loss of loved ones, lack of resources and the desperation to get out of economic hardship.
The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in public decision making is raising critical issues around fairness and human rights.
The presence of roads, even inside protected areas, may pose a significant threat to species.
It is urgent and overdue to implement PrEP in pregnancy and during breastfeeding. Failure to do so allows ongoing avoidable HIV infection among women in South Africa and their infants.
African countries can’t afford to tread water waiting for the global multilateral and private financing system to become more equitable.
There is a promising trend of growing research and training in statistical ecology in Africa.
The need of the moment is for low- and middle-income countries to improve their own manufacturing capabilities.
If the local context and priorities of those who most directly rely on natural resources for their survival isn’t considered, conservation efforts will continue to fail.
Thanks to the public events and the scholarly engagement with her life and work, Charlotte Maxeke has become one of the most visible South African women from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Vaccination uptake is influenced by many factors and carries a variety of meanings – social, political, economic, ideological, moral as well as biological.
Nigeria’s current political problems are simply too daunting to embark on an honest journey to true federalism at this stage.
Hard as it is, some gangsters do leave gangs. A new book, based on a 5-year study, tracks the lives of 24 former gang members.
La dificultad para reducir los niveles de pobreza y desigualdad en África se debe a la incapacidad de lograr un desarrollo equitativo en el continente y a la falta de servicios sociales para los trabajadores.
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
Pitched at an initial US$8.5 billion, the partnership has the potential to be one of the largest individual climate finance transactions to date. But can a just transition be achieved?
South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme has the potential to restore energy security and eventually reduce power prices.
Many of the temperatures presently being recorded in Africa, and those projected in the next decade, are already close to the limits of human survival, or “liveability”.
The majority of front page reports were negative in tone, seeing very little possibility for individual agency and self-efficacy. This can amplify public anxiety and fear.
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Chief research officer: Global Risk Governance Programme, Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Cape Town
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Senior Clinical Research Officer , University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Research Officer, Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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PhD student, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Anthropologist, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer (Political Economy), University of Cape Town
