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South Africa
Cape Town's drought is causing the economy to dry up too
The water shortages are hitting the local economy in Cape Town.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
This major city could be the first to run out of water
Unless Cape Town adopts widespread rationing, the government says, the taps “will be turned off” on April 22, 2018, because there will be no more water to deliver.
Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Agripreneurs are hunting for green gold on top of Johannesburg's buildings
The Chamber of Mines, in central Johannesburg, has become the site of green entrepreneurship - rooftop farming.
Healthcare Delivery Systems
Lessons on rolling out an HIV prevention pill in South Africa
Last year South Africa became the first country on the continent to register the use of a drug that could be used as an oral pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention.
Global Economic Imbalances
Moving to cities has lifted nearly 400,000 South Africans out of poverty
Migration to cities has helped many South Africans to escape extreme poverty, even in tumultuous times.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
This start-up is tackling poaching by 3D-printing rhino horns
A start-up called Pembient is taking a novel approach to poaching: 3D-printing rhino horns to flood the market and undercut black-market business
China
The next ten years of BRICS - will the relationship last?
The BRICS initiative is 10 years old and has silenced many critics who thought its members were too economically, politically and geographically diverse to work together. But as cracks be...
Africa
This is the most important thing Africa needs to tackle complex problems
Africa needs a science synthesis centre to tackle complex problems.
Education, Gender and Work
South Africa’s public works programme is creating jobs, but it can do more for women
The South African government's "Expanded Public Works Programme" needs some alterations, to make it work for women.
Africa
How universal internet access could reboot South Africa
Forty-eight percent of South Africans between the ages of 15 and 34 are unemployed. Closing the digital divide is an essential step to helping them find jobs.
Africa
What a wave of rhino killings tells us about poaching patterns
Rhino poaching in South Africa continues to be a problem.
South Africa
These are 30 African innovators who aren't waiting for help from anyone else
These are the Quartz Africa Innovators for 2017.
South Africa
South Africa must resist the dangerous spiral of economic nationalism
A populist backlash risks derailing Africa's biggest economy, writes Anders Borg, Sweden's former Finance Minister.
Gender Parity
Meet the imam of Africa’s first gay-friendly mosque
In Africa it’s almost impossible to be Muslim and gay. But this brave mosque leaders is challenging that.
South Africa
A solution to migration and employment issues in Africa? Remote working
Remote working shows clear economic and societal benefits, and should be used as an alternative to physical, work-related migration.