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2026-03 - Slow Poison: Colonial Legacies and the Unfinished Project of Decolonisation
19+ hour, 52+ min ago (664+ words) Skip navigation and go to page content 30 March 2026 - Wits University Professor Mahmood Mamdani will be in conversation with Angelo Fick on nationalism, ethnicity, and the turn to neoliberalism. Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology and…...
2026-03 - SAMRC renews Wits Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit for 5-year term
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (436+ words) Skip navigation and go to page content 27 March 2026 - Wits University Funding renewal recognises importance of applying advanced molecular biology tech to address some of the most pressing infectious disease challenges in Africa. The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has…...
2026-03 - The most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date
3+ week, 1+ day ago (360+ words) Skip navigation and go to page content 9 March 2026 - Am'lie Beaudet and Dominic Stratford Meet the reconstructed skull of "Little Foot" which provides valuable insights into how our ancestors adapted to their environment. What did the face of our ancestors look…...
2026-03 - The project that's remapping migration in urban Africa
3+ week, 6+ day ago (527+ words) Skip navigation and go to page content 3 March 2026 - Wits University And with it, a glimpse into the world's future cities. The population of African cities is expected to double to 1.4 billion people by 2050, with much of this growth being driven…...
2026-03 - Little Foot gets a virtual facelift
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (403+ words) Skip navigation and go to page content 3 March 2026 - Wits University A new digital reconstruction of the face of the 3.67millionyearold Australopithecus fossil, Little Foot, provides new insight into the evolution of the human face. The new findings, published in'Comptes Rendus Palevol,…...