It began as a thought experiment. “Who would you take with you to a desert island or Armageddon?” asked a friend. “Not my sister, “I said. “She would forget to feed the chickens … and not yours either ...

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” — Albert Camus In 2016, ahead of his 85th birthday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu penned an opinion piece for The Washington Post ...

Social scientists James Q Wilson and George Kelling proposed a seminal academic theory in 1982 that a broken window left unattended in a community signals that no one cares if the windows are broken ...

Jacob Zuma has been arrested, admitted to hospital and released on medical parole, all within the space of two months. The former president continues to enjoy media attention. In my database of 131 ...

I am thinking of Nosicelo Mtebeni, a final-year law student from Fort Hare University in East London, who was gruesomely killed and dismembered by her boyfriend after an altercation. That this ...

International Youth Day, 12 August, is a day commemorating young people and bringing attention to the myriad issues they face, as well as highlighting the potential they have to transform society.

In the past five years, the South African debate on climate change and ecological restoration has been elevated to one of the main state agendas. The role played by young people among many others has ...

“Human mobility is not an invasion. It is not an intrusion. It is a human reality as old as humankind that we, as responsible leaders, have to learn to manage,” said William Lacy Swing, of the ...

July 2021 was a harrowing month for all who love South Africa. As soon as the dust settled on the looting and unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, we started trying to make sense of the senseless ...

Within the feminist movement, African feminism occupies a unique position that challenges disempowering constructs issuing from both Western and African paradigms. Contrary to the disinformation about ...

When it comes to the complex history and rich culture of the African continent, the narrative has often been over-simplified, offering a homogeneous and unidimensional depiction of the world’s second ...

Something’s a brewing, and something’s a bubbling in the flavour pot of world music and it comes from an unlikely source: South Korea. The K-pop/K-culture fare has spilled over into South Africa and ...