By Dr Thirusha Naidu Creativity, like mental illness, is mysterious to most. It is an inexplicable yet distinctly human attribute. Historically, creatives have been admired,…
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By Amori Marais The grip of calamities is tightening across the world: Covid-19 is causing a global pandemic; parts of Australia are (still) burning; and…
By Dr Gloria Marsay There has been much debate around the concept of hope. There are opinions for and against the thought of…
Dear President Ramaphosa, I have two dozen questions for you, please feel free to answer them in the comments section below. 1. Where are the…
Imagine for a moment that the human race was extinct and that instead in its place several billion humanoid pigs had taken up residence on…
There are many things that signal the virtue of cowardice. A prolonged and deep reliance on patriotism is just one of them. To say that…
The question, what is dominant, human ‘nature’, or ‘nurture’ (culture), has been the motivating force in a debate that has waged since at least the…
I swore off social media rubbishcapades more than a decade ago. I still have all my records from the early and mid 90s regarding my…
This morning my eye caught a report about Brazil’s climate-change denialist, neoconservative president, Jair Bolsonaro — evidently in an attempt to divert attention from his…