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The growth of space science in African countries for earth observation in the 21st century
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2013)
The vulnerability of Africa to the impact of climate change, which results in natural disasters and environmental degradation, accelerates hardship and poverty for millions of Africans. However, Africa still lacks the ...
South Africa's space programme - Past, present, future
(Routledge, 2010)
This article introduces and analyses South Africa’s space programme. This divides into three phases. First was the age of amateurs 1947-1962.
Second, between 1963-1993, South Africa’s apartheid ancien regime started ...
The African Union and its sub-regional structures
(Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2012)
After seven decades of episodic existence through conferences, the Pan-African project became permanently institutionalised with the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963, with a qualitative upgrade into ...
The choice of atomic power for electricity in South Africa
(2013)
South Africa needs to both increase its electricity generation, and to incrementally transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources. The most cost-effective strategy would be a mix of imported hydropower, solar power, ...
Some aspects of South Africa’s foreign policy on the civil wars in Côte D’Ivoire, Libya, and Mali
(2013)
During the 1960s, intervention in Africa by both the UNO and former colonial powers such as France was imposed on Africans. After half a century, Pan-Africanists have started to challenge, sometimes successfully, sometimes ...
Pan-African initiatives in global governance
(2013)
As recently as 2009, a five hundred page textbook on international relations did not even mention the African Union in its index. The same applied to the Wikipedia entry on international organizations until a colleague of ...
Astronaissance: Communicating astronomy & space to the African imagination
(2013)
Astronaissance neatly conceptualizes the crossover between the African Renaissance, the re-emergence of Astronomy in Africa, and the rise of cognate space sciences and astronautics.
Story-telling, painting, engraving, ...