How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa
Apr 30, 2024 02:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Political history scholar Jonny Steinbergs 2023 book Winnie Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africas most famous political figures Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela Mandela and their role...
LVMH succession planning: keeping it in the family when you’re the world’s richest man
Apr 30, 2024 02:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
In the high end world of luxury and heritage, many brands are still owned and managed by the original founding family. The issue of succession planning, therefore, can be particularly important. This recently came to the...
Apr 30, 2024 02:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Buzzwords describing the digital dating scene are all over social media. Have you been ghosted? Is someone orbiting you? Are you being breadcrumbed? While these dating patterns may not be new, the words to describe them...
Four myths about vertical farming debunked by an expert
Apr 30, 2024 02:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Technology
Vertical farms look hi-tech and sophisticated, but the premise is simple plants are grown without soil, with their roots in a solution containing nutrients. This innovative approach to agriculture is growing in global...
Young middle-class Nigerians are desperate to leave the country: insights into why
Apr 30, 2024 02:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Since the 1980s, migration has been a part of the Nigerian middle-class psyche, catalysed by the usual suspects: high unemployment, security concerns, infrastructure gaps, and poor governance. Migrants tends to be...
Uganda’s tax system isn’t bringing in enough revenue but is targeting small business the answer?
Apr 30, 2024 02:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Uganda, with a fiscal deficit of 5.6% in 2023, has increasingly turned to local resources to make up for its revenue shortfall since the World Bank suspended its funding on 8 August 2023 over the countrys...
Greater Detroit is becoming more diverse and less segregated –
Apr 30, 2024 02:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The Detroit metropolitan area is one of the most segregated areas in the United States. But that is slowly starting to change for some racial groups. The slow change is driven by the fact that the region became more...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects