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...
Clothing rental could be the key to a stylishly sustainable fashion industry
Aug 01, 2018 14:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
A staggering 235m items of unwanted clothing were forecast to be dumped in UK landfill in 2017, while the average American is estimated to bin 81lb (37kg) of used clothing annually. Overconsumption and the inevitable...
How Irish migration and the female criminal mind were viewed in the Victorian era
Aug 01, 2018 14:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Mad, bad, or dangerous to know? How can we understand the criminal mind and the commission of crimes? Are these prompted by wickedness and the desire for gain or revenge, or by the workings of a disordered mind? Such...
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