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The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

South African History [Apartheid]

After the Second World War, in 1948, the NP, with its ideology of apartheid that brought an even more rigorous and authoritarian approach than the segregationist policies of previous governments, won the general election. It did so against the background of a revival of mass militancy during the 1940s, after a period of relative quiescence in the 1930s when black groups attempted to foster unit...

South Africa’s COVID-19 Alcohol Sales Ban: The Potential for Better Policy-Making

Delays in South Africa's plans to ban alcohol advertising.

Last year Cabinet moved forward on its intention to ban alcohol advertising by approving “The Control of Marketing of Alcoholic Beverages Bill”. This bill, now subject to a regulatory impact assessment (RIA), aims to help reduce alcohol-related harm and protect public health through limiting the public’s exposure to alcohol marketing by limiting advertising of alcohol products to points of sale...

Triage — a South African Perspective

June 2004 Vol.22 No.6 CME 325 While an estimated 60 000 South Africans are murdered and die in road traffic accidents each year, at least 2.5 million cases of non-fatal injury require emergency care during the same period. This translates to about 66 trauma presentations per 1 000 population per annum. In South Africa the burden of non-trauma emergencies seeking medical care has not been formal...