Africa Lifestyle Travel 06 February 2018 By Uchenna Okeja The case for an African passport Embassies, visas and immigration officers. These things invoke nightmarish feelings in many people. This is particularly true in One cannot fail to notice the hallmarks of post-colonial performances of power at the gates of embassies...
Lifestyle Health 24 January 2018 By Eileen Parkes It’s time to rethink how we do cancer research “A devastating failure of medical research.” This was the response of one cancer survivor on hearing the news that over half of European Medical Agency-approved cancer treatments between 2009 and 2013 had no evidence of...
Lifestyle Parenting 17 January 2018 By Selina Palm Church outrage over spanking ban Some churches and Christian lobbies are outraged by a groundbreaking South African court ruling on 19th of October 2017 that outlaws the spanking of children. The court found that the common law defence of spanking...
Lifestyle Education 16 January 2018 By Sean Gossel & Misheck Mutize Free higher education plan will cripple South Africa’s finances South Africa’s fee-free higher education initiative, controversially introduced by President Jacob Zuma in the dying weeks of 2017, will plunge the country into a deeper financial crisis if it isn’t adjusted one way or Days...
Lifestyle Sport 16 January 2018 By Francois Cleophas Narratives about South Africa’s black athletes need to be reclaimed A fair amount has been written by academics about the history of black cricket, rugby and soccer in South Africa. These writings have given voice to sportsmen and women who were made invisible during the...
Lifestyle Food & Wine 14 January 2018 By Julia Domanski 2018: The Year to Embrace Healthy-ish A few years ago, I read an article promoting the ‘healthy-ish’ lifestyle. I remember thinking ‘now this is a realistic new year’s resolution!’ And then I never really gave it any more thought. But now,...
Lifestyle Food & Wine 12 January 2018 By John Fraser Can We Toque? Restaurant. The Raj I have discovered far better Indian food since the days when as students we would dare each other to eat fiery, but otherwise tasteless, concoctions, washed down with as much cold beer as we could...
Politics Business Lifestyle Travel 12 January 2018 By WESGRO Tourists pour into Cape, unlike the rain CT business body Wesgro claims that tourism in the Western Cape appears to be buoyant, despite the water crisis. It has released this Initial reports on the December 2017 peak tourism month show high growth...
Lifestyle Education 11 January 2018 By John Fraser Worries over 'clampdown' on Afrikaans Afrikaner rights lobby group AfriForum has condemned a ruling by the Constitutional Court in favour of the dominance of the English language at the Free State The majority ruling of the Constitutional Court came during...
Lifestyle Property Water 10 January 2018 By anthony turton Should you sell up before Day Zero? While the water crisis in Cape Town has been cause for grave concern by all citizens, owners of real estate have been particularly worried. I regularly field questions from home owners asking if they should...
Lifestyle Health 09 January 2018 By Kerrigan McCarthy Listeria infection spike in SA matters Listeria is an organism that contaminates food and can result in pregnant women going into premature labour or even losing their babies. The Conversation Africa’s Health and Medicine Editor Candice Bailey spoke to Kerrigan McCarthy...
Lifestyle Arts 09 January 2018 By John Fraser British Royals are bloody entertaining Thanks to a few new bits of wire linking my Chateau to the outside world, I can now watch Netflix, the entertainment streaming service, the threat from which must keep Dstv executives awake at night...
Lifestyle Health 05 January 2018 By Tania Douglas Africa 'needs' its own medical technology Biomedical engineering can save lives. It draws on and integrates knowledge from disciplines like engineering, computer science, biomedical sciences, and public health as well as clinical practice. This knowledge is combined to improve health –...
Lifestyle Health 05 January 2018 By Dick Thijssen A single workout could save your life There is plenty of evidence that being physically active can reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke, but when do the benefits of exercise start to pay off? You might think that it’s after...
Lifestyle Arts 05 January 2018 By Keith Gottschalk A tribute to Kgositsile, SA’s poet laureate Memories of Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938-2018), or Bra Willie, as he was affectionately known, are of a poet who always had a smile on his face, who exuded gentleness, and was soft-spoken. He died on In...
Lifestyle Book Reviews Politics 04 January 2018 By Shireen Hassim Zuma’s rape trial has finally hit home In 2007, barely a year after the man who went on to become South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, was acquitted on a charge of raping a young woman called “Khwezi” (the name given to Fezekile...
Lifestyle Book Reviews 04 January 2018 By Peter Vale Williamson: The spy for apartheid Book Review: Spy - Uncovering Craig Williamson by Jonathan Ancer; Jacana Media, Johannesburg, March wp-image-22186 size-medium" / One can judge a book’s bleakness by the photograph on its cover. The Mephistophelian figure holding a tea...
Lifestyle Travel 25 December 2017 By Marco Scholtz Why millions choose Africa for safaris More than 30 million tourists visit Africa every year. Over half of the international arrivals are for business purposes, and may partake in tourist activities as well, while 15% travel for pure tourism and 30%...
Lifestyle Health Water 25 December 2017 By Michelle Sconce Massaquoi Washing your hands the holiday way For my fourth-grade science fair project, I tested different soaps to see which ones were the most effective at keeping my hands clean. Now, nearly 20 years later as a microbiology doctoral candidate, I can’t...
Lifestyle Education 15 December 2017 By Peter Rule South Africa has a reading crisis The teacher stands in front of her Grade 4 class. The 45 nine and ten-year olds are crammed together at desks, huddled over shared books. Some are sitting on the floor. “Now, class, read from...
