In November 2019, scholars and practitioners from ten higher education institutions celebrated the launch of the iKudu project. This project, co-funded by Erasmus+[1], focuses on capacity development for curriculum transformation through internationalisation and development of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) virtual exchange. Detailed plans for 2020 were discussed including a series of site visits and face-to-face training. However, the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the plans in ways that could not have been foreseen and new ways of thinking and doing came to the fore. Writing from an insider perspective as project partners, in this paper we draw from appreciative inquiry, using a metaphor of a mosaic as our identity, to first provide the background on the iKudu project before sharing the impact of the pandemic on the project’s adapted approach. We then discuss how alongside the focus of iKudu in the delivery of an internationalised and transformed curriculum using COIL, we have, by our very approach as project partners, adopted the principles of COIL exchange. A positive impact of the pandemic was that COIL offered a consciousness raising activity, which we suggest could be used more broadly in order to help academics think about international research practice partnerships, and, as in our situation, how internationalised and decolonised curriculum practices might be approached. [1] KA2 Erasmus+ Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices (capacity building in the field of Higher Education)

Competition is becoming a permanent feature of the European research landscape, and local prestige, combined with local publications, may no longer suffice in the race for resources (both national and international) and wider academic recognition. Huge cross-disciplinary and crossnational differences apply, but, in general, the role of internationalization of research in European universities is greatly increasing.

This article seeks to contribute to the discourse on the appropriate African response to globalisation and internationalisation in higher education by examining the role of internationalisation in capacity-enhancement and development in Africa. In the first part, it explores the theoretical underpinnings of capacity-enhancement through university education and analyses how the intertwined processes of internationalisation and Africanisation can contribute to capacity-enhancement and development in Africa. It is argued that the concept of intellectual metissage, as a form of intellectual cross-fertilisation across international borders, is a necessary and appropriate tool to drive internationalisation with the aim of fulfilling the developmental mandate of African universities. In the second part, a prestigious and highly successful international partnership programme, the LLM/MPhil in human rights and democratisation in Africa is analysed to determine its suitability to drive and actualise the capacity-enhancement aspect of higher education in Africa through intellectual métissage.

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In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but due to its newness at the global stage, how the implementation of the former can be shaped by courts remains unclear. The authors conducted an extensive and systematic review of existing literature on MDGs, SDGs and health litigation cases decided by the Constitutional Court in South Africa. The rationale for this approach is to examine whether the SDGs connect with the right to health and how the court can shape the policy environment for the implementation of SDGs. It was found that the SDGs connect with the right to health and that the Constitutional Court has influenced the MDGs policy environment, hence, can contribute to the implementation of health related SDGs in South Africa. It is concluded that Courts' role as a platform of accountability, a catalyst of change in the policy environment and agent of social mobilization are important lessons for implementing health related SDGs in South Africa. It is recommended that government and indeed other stakeholders should take into consideration the role of court as they pursue the implementation of health related SDGs in South Africa.