
Finding ‘Kape’: How Language Documentation helps us preserve an endangered language
As of 2025, more than 7000 languages are spoken across the world. However, only about half of them are properly documented, leaving the rest at risk of disappearing. Globalisation has propelled languages such as English...
Urban food gardens produce more than vegetables, they create bonds for young Capetonians – study
Urban farms like this one in Nouakchott, Mauritania, have many benefits. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images) Urban agriculture takes many forms, among them community, school or rooftop gardens, commercial urban farms, and...

As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are inmates from Californias prison system has drawn significant attention in news coverage. While the...

The legacy of anti-Black racism: The public health crisis of racial trauma
The police killing of George Floyd in 2020 in the United States was an appalling act involving a group of officers who did not place much, if any, value on the life of a Black man. In the agonizing nine minutes before he...
Online platforms risk becoming ideological echo chambers that undermine meaningful dialogue
The migration to Bluesky, especially after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, reflects a growing dissatisfaction with centralized platforms and their handling of political content. (Shutterstock) There has recently been...

How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
When, in the late 1980s, I began my research on the architectural history of the Auschwitz death camp, Jan. 27 wasnt marked on any official calendar as a special day of commemoration. Since then, as a historian who has...

Canada’s claim that it champions human rights is at odds with its mining practices
Canada presents itself as a gender equality and human rights champion both at home and abroad. But its also a global leader in mining, an industry with an abysmal human rights record. Under the previous Conservative...