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As
a political scientist, I am interested in the ingredients of
durable democracies in post-conflict societies, including
South Africa. Thirty years after its first democratic
elections, the stakes are high for the ANC as the party that
took the lead in ushering in a new era. It is nursing a
fragile unity ahead of a general election later this year.
The
election, expected between May and August, may become the
battle for the soul of the young voter. If that is the case,
then the ANC needs a fresh image, one less reliant on its
history as a liberation movement. |
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Sandy Africa
Associate Professor, Political Sciences, and
Deputy Dean Teaching and Learning (Humanities),
University of Pretoria | |
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, centre, and
his deputy, Paul Mashatile, right, help cut the cake at the
party’s 112th anniversary celebration at Mbombela Stadium,
Mpumalanga. Dirk Kotze/Gallo Images via Getty
Images
Sandy Africa, University of Pretoria
The
ANC leans heavily on its liberation movement brand. But this
will not necessarily be a determining factor in who will sway
voters later this year. |
Some women influencers are using coded
language to spread far-right ideology on social media. AlpakaVideo via Shutterstock
Avery Anapol
Eviane
Leidig talks about her research into women of the far right
who have become online influencers. Listen to The Conversation
Weekly podcast. |
The door plug area of an Alaska Airlines
Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft awaits inspection on Jan. 10, 2024.
Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo
Amy Fraher, Yale University
A
commercial pilot turned management expert and author of ‘The
Next Crash: How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline
Safety,’ explains the economics behind the near-deadly
disaster. |
A pirogue adorned with a Senegalese flag
floats on the Pink Lake, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal.
David Degner/Getty Images
El hadji Sow, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de
Dakar
Contrary
to popular beliefs, salt extraction has never been detrimental
to the survival of the pink lake; instead, it prevents its
asphyxiation. |
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Christopher Damman, University of
Washington
Weight
loss and diabetes drugs target regulatory pathways
involved in metabolism that the microbes in your gut
and certain molecules from food already play a key
role in regulating.
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Suresh Neethirajan, Dalhousie University
Artificial
intelligence can process large amounts of chicken
vocalizations, identifying patterns in the birds’
communications.
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Edith Jennifer Hill, Flinders University
She
pleaded guilty to second degree murder and now has 10
million TikTok followers – what’s behind the
influencer fame of Gypsy Rose Blanchard?
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Ewan D. Barr, Max Planck Institute for
Radio Astronomy; Arunima Dutta, Max Planck Institute
for Radio Astronomy; Benjamin Stappers, University of
Manchester
It’s
too heavy to be a neutron star and too light to be a
black hole. So what is it?
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Maria Fernanda Noboa Gonzalez, Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) -
Ecuador
Just
five years ago, Ecuador was still considered one of
the safest countries in Latin America. Now, there is a
brutal war playing out between criminal gangs and the
state.
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Hari Har Jnawali, Wilfrid Laurier
University
India
is pursuing a policy of pleasing the ruling elites in
its neighbourhood, which it hopes will serve its
national aspirations to become a regional powerhouse
like China. | |
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