South Africa’s youth are a generation lost under democracy – study
Apr 26, 2024 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently painted a rosy picture in which the countrys youth democracys children had enormous opportunities for advancement, all thanks to successive post-apartheid governments led...
Nigerians throw naira notes around to show love: but it could land you in jail
Apr 26, 2024 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The legal implication of physically damaging the naira, Nigerias currency, came into focus recently with the prosecution of at least two celebrities by the countrys Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Nigeria has a...
Apr 26, 2024 01:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Did you receive a mail-order package this week? Carriers in the U.S. shipped 64 packages for every American in 2022, so its quite possible. That commerce reflects the expansion of large-scale retail in recent decades,...
New ‘cold war’ grows ever warmer as the prospect of a nuclear arms race hots up
Apr 26, 2024 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
Champagne corks popped on December 3 1989 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president George H.W. Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the cold war. Gorbachev...
Apr 26, 2024 01:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this...
Tarantino abandons his tenth film – five other times Hollywood giants cancelled big projects
Apr 26, 2024 01:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Quentin Tarantino has reportedly scrapped what was supposed to be his tenth and final feature film, The Movie Critic, deep into pre-production. This decision is one in a long line of cancelled or unproduced projects...
The politics stopping the UK from opening a youth mobility scheme with Europe
Apr 26, 2024 01:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Earlier this week, it seemed possible that young people in the UK might soon be able to travel freely to work and live in Europe again. The European Commission laid out proposals to open mobility to millions of 18- to...
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