• Where your voice matters
  • Join Us
  • News/Politics
  • General
  • Lifestyle
  • Media
  • Equality
  • Tech
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Gender violence
  • Health
  • Environment
Skip to content
  • News/Politics
  • General
  • Lifestyle
  • Media
  • Equality
  • Tech
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Gender violence
  • Health
  • Environment
Thought Leader

Thought Leader

Comment and analysis from across the continent

  • Where your voice matters
  • Join Us

Lockdown

Posted inBusiness

‘Go local’ say small-scale farmers and retailers

by Nduduzo Majozi 19 November 202119 November 2021

Strategies for how to become more resilient were discussed at a meeting held in Pietermaritzburg

Posted inEquality, Gender violence

Conversations are the key to greater resilience and equality for women

by Sarah Rice 30 August 20215 October 2021

Without good communication there will never be equality. Women’s voices must be heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored

Posted inHealth

Is the push for the vaccine a push too far?

by Bert Olivier 31 May 202131 May 2021

In my opinion, there hasn’t been enough safety testing and I won’t be in the queue for a jab

Posted inEquality

Hysteria over declining fertility rates is just another manifestation of white supremacy

by Ahmed Sule 22 May 202121 May 2021

Increased immigration from the brown-youth-populated Global South to the ageing white Global North does not feature as a solution in many Western arguments. Could the fear of a “blacking of the West” be the reason?

Posted inHealth

A dog walk on lockdown lane

by John Davenport 7 May 20217 May 2021

Coming across his memoirs of that first, glorious day of freedom is an antidepressant John Davenport would like to keep

Posted inEquality, Health

The Covid pandemic has become a breeding ground for ideas about fake liberty

by Philip Machanick 3 May 20213 May 2021

A rebuttal of Bert Olivier, whose recent opinion piece echoes every talking point of propaganda driving the agenda of authoritarianism

Posted inLifestyle

Cooking up resilience in our unjust world

by Ishay Govender 18 February 202118 February 2021

Small acts of resistance and reinvention may be our most significant victories yet

Posted inGeneral

Laws outside the law

by Bert Olivier 11 February 202111 February 2021

New developments regarding ‘homo sacer’ and ‘bare life’ under pandemic conditions

Posted inGeneral, Lifestyle

The great staggering: When the pre- and post-pandemic worlds converge

by Dion Chang 17 December 202017 December 2020

While 2020 was put in a holding pattern, there was consensus that the Covid-19 pandemic would produce a “new normal”. But instead of a clean slate, the new normal will be shaped by residual issues we left in 2019

Posted inGeneral

At lockdown level one, Covid-19 has not been good for democracy

by Derek Davey 13 October 202013 October 2020

Fake news and disinformation abound and mistrust means people are starting to doubt the virus even exists. This is the perfect storm for those who benefit from chaos and corruption

Posted inLifestyle, News/Politics

Stumbling upon Orania in the pandemic

by John Davenport 25 September 202025 September 2020

It seems a road trip can take you strange places and back in time

Posted inEnvironment

Botanical gardens re-imagined go beyond simply displaying plants

by Melanie Boehi, Luciano Concheiro San Vicente and Phakamani m’Afrika Xaba 13 September 202014 September 2020

Covid-19 and its socioeconomic consequences has emphasised people’s need for these places: research, biodiversity conservation, plants for food, health and cultural purposes, and open space in congested urban settings

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts
Thought Leader
  • Contact Us
  • Subscriptions
  • About Thought Leader
  • Contributor Guidelines
  • Legal
© 2022 Thought Leader. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic