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For decades, global football governance structures heavily favoured European and South American teams, leaving Africa to fight not just for wins on the pitch, but for representation itself. File photo/ Mario Kneisl/GEPA via US PRESSWIRE
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World Cup history: a timeline of Africa’s greatest moments on the field

The history of African performances at the men’s football World Cup is a story of resilience, technical skill, joyful expression, and the breaking of systemic barriers.

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The anti-immigrant protest movement argues that it is responding to rising unemployment, deteriorating public services and growing insecurity. File photo

Blaming migrants ignores the real causes of SA’s economic crisis

South Africa is in the midst of its most significant anti-immigrant mobilisation in years.

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Activists participate in a 2018 #MeToo March in Hollywood, California. Picture:

‘Off Campus’ brings attention to sexual violence in a sincere way

Amazon Prime's new series challenges storylines that have helped endorse rape myths

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Over the past two decades, the number of older persons in Botswana aged 60+ has doubled to about 279,111 people (roughly 8% of the population).

Pensions for Botswana’s elderly are growing, but care services are lacking

Study tracks how government has funded elder care over past 20 years

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Diffuse radio emissions captured by the MeerKAT telescope spanning millions of light-years. Visualisation by Konstantinos Kolokythas, CC BY

SA’s MeerKAT telescope mapping previously invisible spaces between galaxies – and it’s found 60 new cosmic structures

Astronomers are uncovering previously hidden structures within some of the universe’s largest objects

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