Because liberalism demands accountability, AI now enters into an updated social contract between individuals, their states, and AI-producing companies
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First-hand account: Inside a Covid-19 vaccine trial
Misinformation about Covid-19 is a cause for concern, but hearing from a vaccine-trial participant could help to allay the most prolific fears
The case for Ivermectin
What is the reason governments, including our own, are slow to act on this potential Covid-19 medicine, and aren’t we past the time where their reluctance could be justified?
The EFF — an ideological critique in four parts
Part 1: If the Economic Freedom Fighters party is not fascist, what is it?
The EFF – an ideological critique in four parts
Part 2: The party’s racial cynicism
The EFF – an ideological critique in four parts
Part 3: The EFF is not a party of the working class
Chickens come home to roost: Anti-democracy and American politics
Part of the crisis of America is rooted in its myth of exceptionalism — which does not account for racial slavery and indigenous dispossession, war and conquest as part of its history
An African perspective on the US elections chaos
Africans are much more familiar with post-election problems than are Americans. The difference is Donald Trump pulled every trick in the book to remain president, but failed
Weaponising the white working class man
White elites have racialised the conversation about poor people in the Global North in order to maintain power and the neoliberal agenda
South African road users drive us to distraction
There is a certain audacity on our freeways — it highlights inequality and gives our country one of the highest accident rates in the world
Businesses not always free to keep the peace
Why is the private sector in Africa more likely to hinder instead of help peaceful development?
Racism – the greatest virus of our time
This essay came third in the 2020 Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s Youth Essay Writing Competition Against Racism Close your eyes and picture this, you’re running an everyday errand. This errand can be whatever you wish, collecting mail, buying groceries, paying bills etc. The one minute you’re paying for the bread your wife asked you to buy, […]