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Sean Christie

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Sean Christie

    For 20 years, Kwanele Asante told health systems to listen to patients. Then the UN gave her the mic (opens the original)

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    A breast cancer diagnosis and the illnesses that followed transformed Kwanele Asante into one of Africa’s most prominent voices for people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions. You may not know her name, but the South African lawyer and bioethicist has spent years pushing local and global health institutions to listen to the people whose wellbeing their policies are meant to serve. In September last year, that journey took her to the United Nations General Ass

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Sean Christie

    Rivers of pain in Nairobi and Johannesburg: how bad are they, and what’s (really) being done? (opens the original)

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    On a recent trip to Nairobi I spent time in Mukuru, a slum divided by the Ngong River, which flows into the Nairobi River. My first thought on walking in the community was this: I’m in Alexandra, Johannesburg, not Mukuru, and this isn’t the Ngong river, it’s the Jukskei. I have walked the banks of the Jukskei River for the past 15 years. I have worked in and lived in Alexandra (Alex for short). The similarities with Mukuru are uncanny. Both are split by rivers, and their low-lying communities ar

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · By Sean Christie

    Joburg’s dirtiest river may lose its only champion (opens the original)

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    Neglected water infrastructure along the upper reaches of the Klip River photographed in November 2024. Archive photo: Johannes Khoele If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? This philosophical cliché seemed to hover over the meeting on 18 August of the Klipriviersberg Sustainability Association (KlipSA) as its chairperson, Andrew Barker, announced that the organisation may have to close. Unless a professional team can be established to urgently take the association forward, it coul

  4. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · By Sean Christie

    Imagine Hangberg, but with psychedelic toads (opens the original)

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    Kimon de Greef’s new book explores the consequences of the popularisation of a psychedelic toad. Author photo by Shaun Swingler South African journalist Kimon de Greef has written another great book, titled The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence. It follows his impressive debut Poacher: Confessions from the Abalone Underworld, written with Shuhood Abader. But unlike Poacher, which tells a deeply local story, The Ego Trip is almost devoid of Sou

  5. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Sean Christie

    Thembi Xulu, the doctor and hip-hop mum trying to bring the anti-HIV jab home | News24 (opens the original)

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    As the 26th International Aids Conference kicks off in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, anyone who meets with Thembi Xulu, the current CEO of the South African National Aids Council, Sanac, should know that she can dance. Xulu is a self-confessed “hip-hop mama”, who learned how to dance to support her daughters on their journey to represent South Africa at international dance competitions. Aside from the occasional TikTok, her family’s dance competition days are on hold. “My rule is no dancing until th

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