The big BBQ debate: how best to fuel your outdoor feast
Aug 16, 2018 20:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The smoky aroma of a barbecue is a familiar smell on warm sunny evenings around the world. In countries like Australia, the barbie is such an intrinsic part of the culture that open public spaces are often equipped with...
Hajj: how globalisation transformed the market for pilgrimage to Mecca
Aug 16, 2018 20:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
More than 2m Muslims are currently gathering in Mecca ahead of the annual Hajj, which begins on August 19. As long as they are fit and financially able, the pilgrimage is an obligatory act of worship that followers of...
How Virtual Reality is giving the world's roller coasters a new twist
Aug 16, 2018 20:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Roller coasters have been a popular attraction at theme and amusement parks around the world for more than a century. Whether its at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, in the US or the now-defunct Ratanga Junction in Cape Town,...
ANC expediency is messing up South Africa's land reform process
Aug 16, 2018 20:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Its highly likely that an amendment will be made to South Africas constitution that will allow for land expropriation without compensation following a decision to do so by the ruling party the African National Congress...
Lessons from Kenya on how to restore degraded land
Aug 16, 2018 20:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The state of the earths biodiversity the worlds variety of living organisms is in crisis. About one third of the worlds land has been severely degraded from its natural state. Some of the worst forms of degradation...
Marikana: it's time Ramaphosa moved on accountability and reparations
Aug 16, 2018 20:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The 2012 Marikana massacre in South Africas North West Province, in which 34 miners were killed by the police, remains an unhealed scar in post democratic South Africa. Two of the most important unresolved issues involve...
Suspects confess to crimes they didn't commit – here's why
Aug 16, 2018 20:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Office clerk Stefan Kiszko spent 17 years in prison for the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed in Rochdale in northwest England in 1975. Though he had confessed his guilt to the police at the time, evidence later proved...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects