We can build a richer narrative about Africa, one that includes a celebration of our continent’s talented individuals and demonstrates how we are contributing to global progress
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Our responses to social unrest and structural uncertainty are not enough
Social protection strategies that emphasise systemic responses only to ‘livelihood shocks and uncertainties’ hardly take into account the ways in which poverty and unemployment are produced and reproduced in South Africa
How to share a karmenaadjie
An Afrikaner living abroad finds a trip home sets loose thoughts about land, farming, killing and sharing
Haiti: A saga of democracy, sovereignty and state rule
A look at the fraught history of this island state sheds light on the current political context
Covid-19: Fast and furious like a runaway car
But we need to take care of the metaphors we use to describe the pandemic
Development scholars: A cross-disciplinary approach necessary for our discourse
In a world environment wherein there are a multiplicity of cultures, there cannot be and often is no one or single reality but a multiplicity of realities
We can learn from the Ancient Greeks about healing and health
Hygieia and Asklepios were the gods of dream healing cults that rose in about 500 BCE during the Plague of Athens
Part one: A country with no children
The generation of 1976, which shook the word with its grassroots education and mobilisation, has grown up. This generation’s mass movements can learn from its elders
Part two: A country with no children
Young people learned about grassroots organising and self-education from each other in the 1980s in South Africa
Kaunda, a pacifist whose ubuntu embraced violence
His book, Kaunda on Violence, presents his philosophy of pacifism, which is characterised by African humanism
Appoint former offenders as prison wardens. Here’s why
International experience has shown former model offenders to be high-performing and effective if they are employed in prison
Watch out! There’s a platform business coming for you
Businesses need to shift to a customer-centric approach and evolve from the old pipe model