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Last week, we witnessed the burning of the University of Fort Hare by protesting students. The most disturbing image was not the smouldering buildings, but the contemptuous attitude displayed towards ...

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A professor associated with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London was deported from ...

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Inspections of nearly 80 percent of hog farms yielded no new cases of African swine fever after a recent infection was reported in Taichung, but the situation remains "tense" due to the virus’s 15-day ...