Caster Semenya: the legal and ethical issues that should concern us all: Caster Semenya at the IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting in Doha, Qatar, 03 May 2019. Noushad Thekkayil/EPAEarly last year the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) introduced regulations requiring South African 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya – and other middle distance runners … [Read more...] about Caster Semenya: the legal and ethical issues that should concern us all | The Conversation
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Realism should guide the next generation of UN peacekeeping | The Conversation
Realism should guide the next generation of UN peacekeeping: UN peacekeepers from South Africa in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012. EPA/Dai KurokawaSince the first United Nations peacekeeping operation was deployed to oversee a ceasefire in the Arab-Israeli war seven decades ago, more than 70 peacekeeping operations have been established. Fourteen remain … [Read more...] about Realism should guide the next generation of UN peacekeeping | The Conversation
Repatriation: why Western museums should return African artefacts | The Conversation
Repatriation: why Western museums should return African artefacts: A mummy of the Ancient Egyptian Priestess "Tamut" (900 BC) on display at British Museum in London, in 2014. EPA/Facundo ArrizabalagaA large number of artefacts held in Western museums and libraries are known to have been appropriated over the ages through conquest and colonialism. The looting of … [Read more...] about Repatriation: why Western museums should return African artefacts | The Conversation
Why South Africa should seriously consider taxing its wealthy citizens | The Conversation
Why South Africa should seriously consider taxing its wealthy citizens: Johannesburg's economic hub, Sandton, lies right next to the sprawling and extremely poor Alexandra township. Paul Saad/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDThis is an edited extract from a chapter in the recently published The state of the nation: poverty & inequality: diagnosis, prognosis and responses. It’s … [Read more...] about Why South Africa should seriously consider taxing its wealthy citizens | The Conversation
Foreign policy priorities South Africa should pursue | The Conversation
Foreign policy priorities South Africa should pursue: South Africa's International Relations and Cooperation minister, Lindiwe Sisulu (second left) with ministers from Brazil and India. DIRCOSouth Africa continues to enjoy an unusual degree of international prominence normally accorded to states that are more powerful, prosperous, or strategically located than it. … [Read more...] about Foreign policy priorities South Africa should pursue | The Conversation
