South Africa's TV actors have every reason to demand a better deal

Oct 26, 2019 08:23 am UTC| Insights & Views

Every few months theres a fresh outcry from South African actors complaining about exploitative working conditions in the film and television industry. Last year cast and crew were up in arms about an actor who needlessly...

Women find it hard to sustain tourism businesses in Ghana and Nigeria. Here's why

Oct 26, 2019 08:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

Entrepreneurship can empower women economically, transform their lives socially and boost their contribution to their households. This is particularly important in sub-Saharan Africa, where unemployment rates are high and...

Exhumation of Franco's remains is a chance for Spain to rest in peace

Oct 26, 2019 08:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

After three days of national mourning, the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was buried in a large crypt in the Valley of the Fallen, a state mausoleum outside Madrid, in 1975. The location of his remains became a place of...

Trump has upended the long history of US investment in Ukraine's democracy

Oct 26, 2019 08:17 am UTC| Insights & Views

On a cold December night in 2016, Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, spoke to an anxious audience at a library in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa. The audience was eager to hear what the recent...

The ‘circularity paradox’ in the European steel industry

Oct 26, 2019 08:16 am UTC| Insights & Views

Recycling, remanufacturing and refurbishing are indisputably important tools for reducing our consumption of natural resources. These activities contribute to what scientists call circularity: making sure we use materials...

80% of household water goes to waste – we need to get it back

Oct 26, 2019 08:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Roberta Ryan, Professor, UTS Institute for Public Policy and Governance and UTS Centre for Local Government, University of Technology Sydney As regional Australian towns face the prospect of running out of water, its...

Vital Signs: talk of a US wealth tax is about symbolism as much as it is about economics

Oct 26, 2019 08:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics

The race for the Democratic Partys presidential nomination is hotting up, and so is academic debate about one of the leading contenders signature proposal a wealth tax. The US Democratic primary is becoming a race of...