Featured Research: People & Society

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Identity and diversity in SA examined through groundbreaking research

In a first of its kind study in South Africa, Wendy Carvalho-Malekane, lecturer in the Department of Humanities Education, researched how young adults in post-apartheid South Africa construct an identity, with the emphasis on individuals with a biracial heritage.

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Can we eliminate malaria in South Africa by 2018?

Malaria is a complex disease that has devastated Africa and parts of South Africa. Researchers at the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control are combining research disciplines to understand and control malaria.

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Drowning: a very real risk

In South Africa drowning is one of the top five causes of unnatural death among children under 15 years of age and for every child that dies from drowning, five are left with permanent brain damage as a result of the prolonged lack of oxygen.

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Improving the lives of families affected by HIV

HIV in South Africa is a prominent health concern and it is believed that the country has more people living with HIV than any other country in the world.

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Xenophobia: Time to go to school

Did you know that legal migration from other Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries has increased almost tenfold since 1990 to over four million people per year? And that’s only individuals from the SADC who enter South Africa legally.

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Ubuntu’s meaning and value in human and social development in Africa

Prof James Ogude, Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have been focusing on this African philosophy.