The Conversation
South Africa’s biggest opposition party will head to municipal elections with new leaders: what does it all mean?
11th February 2026 Speculation continues about why John Steenhuisen announced that he would not be available for re-election as the federal leader of South Africa’s... →
Taxing Africa’s informal economies: technology’s promise and pitfalls
11th February 2026 Changes in the development finance world – especially the sharp drop in foreign aid and fewer cheap loans for low-income countries – have pushed... →
South Africans are leaving the electricity network – but are solar mini-grids a fair solution?
10th February 2026 South Africa’s electricity system is changing. After years of blackouts until 2024, the state-owned energy company Eskom is being unbundled into... →
African climate science-policy has a serious blind spot: the slowing Atlantic circulation
10th February 2026 The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularised the devastating effects of sudden climate change on planet Earth.... →
Connecting home solar and electric vehicle batteries to the grid could boost South Africa’s clean energy and strengthen the electricity system
9th February 2026 South Africa has committed to reaching phasing out human-caused carbon pollution by 2050. To get there, it needs to push as much renewable energy... →
Mozambique floods: why the most vulnerable keep paying the highest price
9th February 2026 When floods submerged parts of Mozambique after heavy rains in 2000, a baby girl was born in a tree, where her mother clung as the Limpopo river... →
Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa
9th February 2026 People often think of a heatwave as a temporary event, a brutal week of sun that eventually breaks with a cool breeze. But as the climate changes... →
Countries need higher education to rebuild after conflict – study finds foreign aid isn’t going where it’s needed
6th February 2026 Higher education institutions are frequent casualties in violent conflicts. In Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan, to mention only a few recent examples,... →
Anti-poverty programmes can change how people see the state and each other
5th February 2026 When floodwaters washed away Woudou Oumar’s home in northern Cameroon, he and his family lost not only shelter but hope. Then a... →
Cape Town project tests what hydroponic farming can do in urban spaces
4th February 2026 Imagine a world where fresh vegetables and herbs sprout in the heart of our cities without the need for sprawling farms. Hydroponics – a method of... →
