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Rape stats unreliable

South Africa has the highest rape numbers in the world

The teachers
of the Eastern Cape have emerged as unsung heroes, pushing the boundaries to secure an impressive 81.4% pass rate in the 2023 matric results.

Too much book learning, too little work for matrics

There are not enough decent mid-level jobs to tempt more young South Africans into vocational training, a Wits seminar has heard.

A shooting in Paris has left one man fighting for his life.

Archives of the non-racial: Get on the bus

What do you get when you put 60 intellectuals from all over the world on a bus for 47 hours on a mission to think and unthink history?

Frameworks on land rights need to evolve and be updated

A Wiser panel has highlighted how old traditional barriers still exist for issues surrounding land reform and ownership in South Africa.

“Our municipalities have a crisis of poor financial management or planning to attract revenue, and they need to be capacitated there,” Amos Masondo said.

Local government needs residents to get involved

Service delivery protests are emblematic of a crisis of representation in municipalities and will only stop when citizen participation is embraced.

A record 100 000 holiday-makers flocked to Durban’s beachfront on New Year’s Day

Police must work with communities, not political elite – Wiser debate

Panelists at a Wits debate say the SAPS need to work with communities to be perceived positively so that protesters stop getting hurt and killed.

The cosmetics industry has made billions out of people who think that being light or white is right.

Wiser’s Burns responds to roundtable criticism

Following an article criticising a Wiser panel discussion’s lack of black women on its panel, the institute’s Catherine Burns has penned a response.

African studies reach out across the pond

A cross-Atlantic programme is bridging schools of thought that are often at odds with one another.

Plagiarism case kept under wraps at Wits

The university has kept quiet about an academic’s dismissal last year for ‘too perfect paraphrasing’.

Hawkers don’t want to be marginalised for 2010

Hawkers, often the breadwinners of their families, should not be marginalised in the run-up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup, a colloquium on the international soccer spectacle heard…