September 2024 marks exactly 39 years since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women that culminated in the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. This conference heralded a critical turning point for the global agenda for gender equality, and had the girl...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and cancer — are an escalating public health crisis in South Africa. The statistics speak for themselves. NCDs accounted for the largest percentage of deaths in the country, according to the 2020...
Twenty years ago, Dinokeng Game Reserve was a savanna and grassland area owned by livestock and crop farmers about 30 minutes’ drive north-east of Gauteng. It adjoins Hammanskraal, a sprawling township with a population of more than 120 000. Today, it is a...
Education and an openness to information play a key role in our ability to distinguish the truth from falsehoods in the complex world of misinformation (fake news) and disinformation (propaganda). In the context of an election, high-quality education can act as a...
Among the highest salaries in the world are those of public servants, many of them in African countries struggling with grinding poverty, underdevelopment and stagnant economies. At the pinnacle of every public service are elected officials topped by presidents, whose...
The by-now notorious rubbish tips and contaminated waterways that plague the townships of Emfuleni in southern Gauteng—thanks to broken-down wastewater infrastructure and neglectful refuse removal—are what is visible to the naked eye. The invisible impact of it on...
In the grassy yard surrounding Phuthulla primary school in Boipatong, Emfuleni, is a narrow, muddy trench where sewage wastewater drains freely. Young children are just metres away in their classrooms, built of asbestos containers during the Apartheid years more than...
As electioneering ramps up ahead of the national election later this year, we can expect a marked increase in the proliferation of disinformation, misinformation, and fake news, aided by evolving artificial intelligence (AI) tools that make the discernment between...
Radio: power to the people Terrestrial radio remains the most popular means of accessing news and entertainment in Africa, even with the advent of the internet Of all the media platforms, radio is still, by far, the most pervasive form of media across Africa. It...
Democratic Republic of the Congo: tourism A privately-funded initiative in this central African country is helping to protect a pristine environment By Helen Grange The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to the second largest rainforest in the world after the...
September 2024 marks exactly 39 years since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women that culminated in the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. This conference heralded a critical turning point for the global agenda for gender equality, and had the girl...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and cancer — are an escalating public health crisis in South Africa. The statistics speak for themselves. NCDs accounted for the largest percentage of deaths in the country, according to the 2020...
Twenty years ago, Dinokeng Game Reserve was a savanna and grassland area owned by livestock and crop farmers about 30 minutes’ drive north-east of Gauteng. It adjoins Hammanskraal, a sprawling township with a population of more than 120 000. Today, it is a...
Education and an openness to information play a key role in our ability to distinguish the truth from falsehoods in the complex world of misinformation (fake news) and disinformation (propaganda). In the context of an election, high-quality education can act as a...
Among the highest salaries in the world are those of public servants, many of them in African countries struggling with grinding poverty, underdevelopment and stagnant economies. At the pinnacle of every public service are elected officials topped by presidents, whose...
The by-now notorious rubbish tips and contaminated waterways that plague the townships of Emfuleni in southern Gauteng—thanks to broken-down wastewater infrastructure and neglectful refuse removal—are what is visible to the naked eye. The invisible impact of it on...
In the grassy yard surrounding Phuthulla primary school in Boipatong, Emfuleni, is a narrow, muddy trench where sewage wastewater drains freely. Young children are just metres away in their classrooms, built of asbestos containers during the Apartheid years more than...
As electioneering ramps up ahead of the national election later this year, we can expect a marked increase in the proliferation of disinformation, misinformation, and fake news, aided by evolving artificial intelligence (AI) tools that make the discernment between...
Radio: power to the people Terrestrial radio remains the most popular means of accessing news and entertainment in Africa, even with the advent of the internet Of all the media platforms, radio is still, by far, the most pervasive form of media across Africa. It...
Democratic Republic of the Congo: tourism A privately-funded initiative in this central African country is helping to protect a pristine environment By Helen Grange The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to the second largest rainforest in the world after the...