The demographic case is equally striking. More than 60% of Africans are under 25. By 2050, one in three people aged 15 to 24 anywhere on Earth will be African. A continent this…
The senseless US-Israel war has caused economic tremors around the world and sucked all of us into an unprecedented crisis characterised by soaring oil prices, the wanton…
Rasool is perhaps one of the few South African political figures able to articulate the global consequences of misused narratives
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)
Horrifying as they were, the events of 7 October were the latest twist in a violent cycle triggered in the distant past
It seems they will be allowed to return home, but not everyone believes this will happen
South Africa is in the dire position of possessing a weak leader and no potential replacements
The main nursing union accuses the government of failing to negotiate seriously on improving their pay deal for the current year, which they say is crucial given the economic…
The long-running inquiry is finally netting some big fish, including a former head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau
It was not only objects that were removed, knowledges — social, political, ecological and epistemological organisation —‚on the continent were destroyed
The problem with a “business” that is about nothing but being family is you can’t fire family
Benin City’s looted bronzes are coming home – but the British Museum hasn’t received the memo, writes Carlos Amato
Big corporations can absorb fines as a cost of doing business but a more rigorous system needs to be put in place to combat corruption and bribery
The forms of capitalism adopted in the West and in economies such as China are influenced by how early or late those polities were in coming to the game
Fuel prices have soared in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, putting South Africa’s power supply at risk
Shell will be the second big firm to depart for London after Unilever last year
The UK will remove South Africa and other African countries it recently placed on its travel red list at midnight on Wednesday
A sensible climate policy must balance the imperative of decarbonisation, socioeconomic policy and security of supply considerations
When crises strike then selfishness prevails, as Britain has done with its vaccine ‘red’ travel list
Social media influencers are routinely paid by scammers to help them pump and dump new tokens on the back of pure speculation
