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South African university students are continuing the struggle for a free decolonised higher education. The protests of 2016 reignited when in October the government allowed…
![My Hair Matters, report for DW by Gaia Manco](https://i0.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-22-at-10.52.56.png?resize=470%2C140)
The subject of hair and how you wear it has made headlines in South Africa. Back in August, a group of students at Pretoria Girls…
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A new electronic music project, Batuk, is making people dance in the clubs of Johannesburg, South Africa. But Batuk is not the average club act….
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This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco…
![Uniting black and white South Africans through 'living books'](https://i2.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot-2015-12-16-at-10.44.46-AM.png?resize=470%2C140)
Maia Marie wants to end the separation between black and white people in South Africa, even 20 years after the end of Apartheid. So she…
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I love giving lectures and speeches, especially if I can use them to motivate the people in front of me. So you can imagine how…
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World in Progress explores issues of globalization, education, economic development, poverty alleviation, human rights and more. On this week’s program: The water crisis facing residents…