Street traders in South Africa play a vital role: how their...
The South African informal economy accounts for 17% of employment. Street trading is the largest. Street traders are scattered around the many corners of...
South Africa’s biggest cities are out of water, but the dams...
South Africa’s major cities in the Gauteng Province – the country’s economic heartland – are experiencing major water shortages. In Johannesburg and Tshwane taps...
This lunar year will be the Year of the Rabbit or...
On Jan. 22, 2023, more than a billion people globally will welcome the Year of the Rabbit – or the Year of Cat, depending...
COP27 explained by experts: what is it and why should I care?
COP27 is the 27th Conference of the Parties (countries) that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention was...
New study seeks to explain the ‘Mandela Effect’ – the bizarre...
Imagine the Monopoly Man.
Is he wearing a monocle or not?
If you pictured the character from the popular board game wearing one, you’d be wrong....
South Africa remains a nation of insiders and outsiders, 27 years...
Twenty seven years into democracy, South African politics is still for the few. And those who complain the most have the least to grumble...
Murder of Johannesburg sex workers shows why South Africa must urgently...
The decomposed bodies of six women, four of whom were identified as sex workers, were recently discovered at a panel beating factory in Johannesburg....
Emergency services in South Africa are overwhelmed: how one community created...
In a medical emergency, the time it takes emergency services to respond could be the difference between survival or death. Ambulance response time is...
Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election: 10 factors that could affect the outcome
As Nigerians inch closer to the February 2023 presidential election, the seventh since the current wave of liberal democracy formally started in 1999, there...
Why South Africa should introduce mandatory labelling for fast foods
Nutrition-related chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases, remain a serious health issue. In the near future, these diseases are likely to...
How Russia-Ukraine conflict could influence Africa’s food supplies
Wandile Sihlobo, Stellenbosch University
No man qualifies as a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.
The words of the ancient Greek philosopher,...
South African universities are training their gaze on the United States....
Three academic institutions in Africa have established units dedicated to the study of the United States. They are University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre...
Morocco vs South Africa as women’s football enters a new era
This weekend’s Women’s African Football Championship (Wafcon) final between Morocco and South Africa in Morocco marks a new era. With it women’s football in...
Intense training – why F1 is one of the most physically and...
Imagine driving a car at speeds approaching 112 mph for around two hours, while at the same time having to negotiate twisting circuits and...
South Africa’s increasing water stress requires urgent informed actions
Progress has been made since 2015 on a global scale in terms of increasing access to water of an acceptable quality and to sanitation...
TikTok’s secret algorithm is its greatest strength – and could also be...
I have a ten-year-old niece named Divya (not her real name) in rural northern India. Two years ago, I visited and she came running...
Rising vigilantism: South Africa is reaping the fruits of misrule
Once relegated to the margins of South African politics, anti-immigrant activism has gone mainstream. Several anti-immigrant groups including Operation Dudula, All Trucker Foundation and...
Retired women in South Africa carry a huge burden of poverty
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, recently acknowledged that “South Africa needs a new consensus to deal with poverty, unemployment and inequality”.
Bomikazi Zeka, University of...
Land reform in South Africa: what the real debate should be about
Land reform in South Africa is an emotive and politically fraught subject. That’s because land was at the heart of the dispossession of Africans...
South African floods wreaked havoc because people are forced to live...
Rapid urbanisation and government failure to deliver adequate housing are among the driving forces behind the proliferation of informal settlements across South African cities...
