Global economies and the unprecedented democratisation of information have changed the world. Given that the main purpose of school was to teach children the necessities to live and to work, is there no easier, or more effective, way to achieve that same goal two centuries later?
Equality
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Women leaders must model sisterhood
In the face of myriad challenges in the workplace, female leaders must forge solidarities to dismantle oppressive spaces
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The struggle of being young in South Africa
Our aspirations are left high and dry, but we should take ownership of our efforts to get there
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The Covid pandemic has become a breeding ground for ideas about fake liberty
A rebuttal of Bert Olivier, whose recent opinion piece echoes every talking point of propaganda driving the agenda of authoritarianism
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Freedom@27: Layered, elusive, and personal
Four psychologists reflect on what liberty means to them, their patients and the country
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Active citizenship must be revived
Because all we have now are commemorations of Freedom Day and the dreams it once carried
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Seeing freedom through Dr Sindisiwe van Zyl’s eyes
The ‘people’s doctor’ never accepted a world as unchangeable, but rather as a possibility to connect with others
Posted inEquality, General, Health
Good wins in American hospital series
New Amsterdam is a critique of neoliberal health care in the United States
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The African immigrant is a human being
There’s a need for South Africa and other African states to better handle those who cross its borders in search of a better life
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Democracy and open society in Zimbabwe 41 years after independence
A full 41 years after ‘freedom’, many Zimbabweans still strive for what they sought then – the enjoyment of their fundamental human rights and freedoms
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The problem with free speech
This right is essential to modern society, but it is a relatively recent phenomenon and we should not take it for granted
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Condemnation of UCT lecturer misses context
Groups slam UCT professor’s Hitler comment without an understanding of the lecture’s purpose