Emily Brontë's fierce, flawed women: not your usual Gothic female characters
Aug 01, 2018 15:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Domestic violence, alcoholism, child abuse, neglect, sexual obsession and torture: Emily Bronts 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is nothing if not graphic in its depiction of the messy, frightening and chaotic lives of unhappy...
Imran Khan: from cricket pitch to politics, Pakistan's next prime minister has played the long game
Aug 01, 2018 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Being cavalier about death is a prerequisite in Pakistani politics. The countrys first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated and a number of subsequent leaders have shared the same fate, variously being...
Explainer: how competitive is South Africa's private healthcare sector
Aug 01, 2018 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
After a four and a half year probe initiated by South Africas Competition Commission, a panel of independent experts released their preliminary report into the countrys private health care market. The Conversation Africa...
The free movement of people is an AU ambition: what's standing in its way
Aug 01, 2018 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The African integration project took several major steps this year. One of them was the African Unions adoption of a protocol on the free movement of people. The move has been widely welcomed. The free movement of...
How peace journalism can help the media cover elections in Africa
Aug 01, 2018 14:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Several countries in Africa, including Zimbabwe, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon, hold crucial elections this year. Some of the polls are likely to be marked by protests as well as clampdowns on...
Lessons to learn, despite another report on missing flight MH370 and still no explanation
Aug 01, 2018 14:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The latest report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 says that investigations have failed to find any explanation as to why the aircraft went missing with 239 passengers and crew on board. The...
How hospital youth workers are helping to combat serious youth violence
Aug 01, 2018 14:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Knife crime is at its highest level recorded in England and Wales, with a 16% increase in knife-related offences in the year to March 2018. Much of the recent spike in knife crime involves young people. Youth violence...
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