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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansIt’s an unfortunate fact that one in four pregnancies will end in a miscarriage, typically within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. In most cases, this will be a single, one-off event with the underlying biological cause unknown. However, around 1% of couples will suffer the agony that is recurrent miscarriage.Recurrent miscarriage is t...
South Africa has the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world, with an alarming figure of 13%. The global average stands at 6%. One of the main causes of South Africa’s rate is the rapid growth of the country’s commercial food industry. This has led to increased consumption of cheap, easily accessible and ultra-processed food th...
The difference between success and failure is directly tied to your beliefs. What you believe is what you get!This is the first little swear word I hear from participants that engage in, or try to engage in, physical activity. Very easy on the tongue – I can’t.Yes, many a time I will just turn around and say, “sure you can’t cause th...
Many Africans who are not gay or bisexual – sexually attracted only to people of the same sex or of both sexes – claim that being gay or bisexual is not acceptable for religious and cultural reasons. Laws in numerous African countries – as is the case in Nigeria – also reflect this by criminalising same-sex sexual activities and same-s...
This is an edited extract from a chapter in the recently published “Teaching for Change”.In 2016 female students at South Africa’s universities started the #EndRapeCulture campaign to mobilise against the pervasive culture of sexual violence on the different campuses. In Stellenbosch the campaign was marked by two striking occasions.On...
When faced with huge amounts of success or with the ability to do something exceptionally well, studies have proved that men are more likely to share this kind of information with others than women are. Research shows that women struggle...
Ghana recently joined only a handful of countries in Africa to introducethe use of pictures in health warnings on tobacco products. The other countries include Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, ...