Letting outside quarters has been seen as a means of survival, but what if it is the natural evolution of urban development that could provide homes and livelihoods simultaneously?
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The fraud of happiness
Institutes and research centres that insist on happiness as a goal lure one into accepting the status quo on the basis of the fraudulent notion that happiness is possible. It is not
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Does anybody deserve an eternity in hell?
Katlego Maboe is the latest addition to the newest ‘untouchables’: celebrities who have gone from hero to zero in an instant. But how long should their banishment last, and is there space for redemption, asks Koos Kombuis
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The remarkable Naidoo family
Dr Ismail Vadi’s latest book tells the story about the four generations who fought colonialism and apartheid
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Punctured by a pothole
Charmain Naidoo was sailing along thinking about cow burps and methane and a friend’s lunch when – bam – the sound of rubber hitting the road
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It is your choice whether to embrace endings or beginnings
Our current era of crisis can also give us a promise of new growth
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Has the public schooling model outlived its usefulness?
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?
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Hear our voices!
Calling on young South Africans to share their ideas in the Thought Leader Ukuzibuza writing contest
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The things we lost in the fire
The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want
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Good wins in American hospital series
New Amsterdam is a critique of neoliberal health care in the United States
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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
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The passive nihilism of the present age
Consumerism has turned us into the new proletariat while our devices have switched off our brains