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Archaeologists Dr Aron Mazel and Gunther Möller on their recent fieldtrip to the Jojosi Donga near Nquthu in KwaZulu-Natal, where they have uncovered unique evidence of stone age ‘workshops’ where hunter gatherers chipped out tools (Photo: Supplied).
Professor Kevin Gaston: “our personalised ecologies are in decline”(Photo: Supplied).
Professor Morgan Hauptfleisch wrestling with a captured gemsbok (Photo: Supplied).
Siyaphambili Youth Project worked much more closely with young people themselves to centralise their knowledge, and drawing on the experience of local non-governmental organisations, to develop their invention. (Photo: Supplied). 
In South Africa, the root causes of violence against women and girls in marginalised communities – urban informal settlements and rural communities – are especially pronounced, with informal settlements housing a significant portion of the population. (Photo: Supplied). 
This study used a photovoice discipline where participants took pictures of what was important in their lives and then had focus group discussions, producing rich data about how people understood what was important for a good life. (Photo: Supplied).
The Siyaphambili Youth project aimed to look at various mental health inventions and in the creation of these inventions they had young people from local communities employed as Youth Peer Research Assistants (YRPAs) to give a different perspective to that of just the researchers. (Photo: Supplied).