Green lawyers are using the new global climate change legal opinion to challenge Shell in South Africa, and resist the expansion of fossil fuel industries.
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Drawing on its proud experience in the liberation struggle, the university is aware of a distinctive academic role in helping build an equitable and dynamic society. In particular it aims to: advance and protect the independence of the academic enterprise.
Design curricular and research programmes appropriate to its southern African context.
Further global perspectives among its staff and students, thereby strengthening intellectual life and contributing to South Africa’s reintegration in the world community.
Assist educationally disadvantaged students gain access to higher education and succeed in their studies.
Nurture and use the abilities of all in the university community.
Develop effective structures and conventions of governance, which are democratic, transparent and accountable.
Seek racial and gender equality and contribute to helping the historically marginalised participate fully in the life of the nation.
Encourage and provide opportunities for lifelong learning through programmes and courses.
Help conserve and explore the environmental and cultural resources of the southern African region, and to encourage a wide awareness of these resources in the community.
Co-operate fully with other stakeholders to develop an excellent, and therefore transformed, higher education system.
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Two South African insurance companies are suing the government after large companies suffered catastrophic damage in 2022 floods.
South Africa plans to ban plastic microbead particles that wash into the ocean and end up in the fish we consume. The ban may take two years to come into effect.
AI coverage in African media has shown that local voices and experts are missing.
Free trade may not be the best way for African counties to improve their food systems.
Current science communications in Cape Town are not serving the public well.
Where children in a household are working, adults may stop looking for jobs.
Créés pour l’usage plutôt que le profit, ces espaces autogérés ancrés en ville racontent des histoires avec les quartiers et imaginent d’autres mondes.
Designed for purpose over profit, these DIY spaces thrive in cities, involve local neighbourhoods in storytelling, and build new possible worlds.
Street vendors are fighting to be brought under labour law rather than remain under business law.
A balance needs to be struck between the protection of teenagers and the preservation of culture.
Young Africans are sceptical about vaccines.
Children are considered lucrative consumers of food. They need protection against misleading health labels.
Zulu custom opposes divorce except in very particular circumstances. But King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has turned to the courts to end his marriage.
The link between household food insecurity and child malnutrition is stark: 28.8% of South African children under five suffer from stunting.
Food shortages are not the cause of hunger in South Africa. The country produces and imports all the food it needs.
Medications degrade over time, meaning they may not work as intended once they reach and pass their expiry date.
À l’occasion du 60e anniversaire de la mort de Malcolm X, retour sur l'hommage révolutionnaire rendu à l’époque par la musique jazz à ce pilier de la lutte pour les droits civiques.
South Africa is working on how best to integrate labour and environmental justice and how its labour laws can be used to enable a just energy transition.
South African law hasn’t specifically recognised the traditional concept of a communal family house.
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Research fellow, University of the Western Cape
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Director of the Global Environmental Law Centre; Associate Professor Department of Public Law & Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of African legal pluralism and Director, Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor , University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Researcher: DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Director DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Researcher, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
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Professor / Leader of the Environmental and Nanoscience Research Group, University of the Western Cape
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Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, University of the Western Cape
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Research associate, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in economics, University of the Western Cape
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
