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DATA DRIVEN ORGANISATIONS

How can governments become data-driven organisations?

Data-based service delivery models have many advantages but the data must be trustworthy and used ethically

  • Ina Cilliers
6 min read
Not enough: It seems that the regular salary is not enough for young South Africans. Many turn to side hustles to make ends meet.
ACCOUNTABILITY

Toxic workplaces: Are human rights organisations some of the culprits?

Some human rights organisations are enabling toxicity to harmful degrees

  • Portia C Allen
6 min read
Gatvol: Citizens march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria protesting against corruption in government. (Delwyn Verasamy)
GOVERNMENTS

The social contract is broken

The government misuses taxes and does not maintain our safety, justice, health and infrastructure systems. Eventually citizens will tire of the lack of delivery

  • Geoff Embling
3 min read
Dying to breathe: Many of the priority areas exceeded South Africa’s national ambient air quality standards, often in regions with high concentrations of vulnerable people. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
AIR POLLUTION

We sacrifice for Covid, so we can fight global warming

We just have to ask ourselves if we are as willing to sacrifice to save our grandchildren as we have shown ourselves to be when it came to trying to save older people, the sick…

  • John Davenport
3 min read
A staff member of the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) screens passengers at a bus station after the government suspended all unnecessary movements for two weeks to curb the spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 22, 2020. – African countries have been among the last to be hit by the global COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic but as cases rise, many nations are now taking strict measures to block the deadly illness. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP)
AFRICA

Africa’s ill-resourced healthcare systems need immediate revamping

Now is the time to rewrite a collective script of Africa’s development agenda and the well being of its people

  • Abdul S Brima
4 min read
South Africa alone has registered more than 3 600 of its citizens who want to return home. (GCIS)
AFRICA

SOS: Covid-19 leaves stranded Africans distressed and abandoned

Many African governments have paid little more than lip service to their citizens stranded all over the world

  • Amindeh Blaise Atabong
6 min read
War ready: First-year recruits at Norwich University, the military college in Vermont, United States, train in transcendental meditation. The goal of the training is to provide coping tools before going into combat and to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder. (Kayana Szymczak/The Boston Globe/Getty Images)
AFRICA

Meditate for peace and unity

Invincible defence technology uses transcendental meditation to reduce crime and violence

  • Arlene Schar
  • David Leffler
4 min read
South Africa has one of the highest rape statistics in the world, even higher than some countries at war
CHOICE ON TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT

Gender-based violence is a barrier to achieving development agenda

Modern development strategies often recognise the pivotal importance of enabling women to fulfill their potential and contribute effectively to their economies. Yet they fail to…

  • Tlaleng Mofokeng
5 min read
Dangers: A woman scans her iris to link her Aadhaar (identity) card with the National Register of Citizens, which is linked to Citizenship Amendment Act that discriminates against Muslims. (David Talukdar/ AFP)
AADHAAR PROGRAMME

Biometric data poses grave risks to privacy

The technology is permeating every facet of our lives, but few countries have laws to make it safe

  • Jayati Ghosh
5 min read
Risky business. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
CARBON DIOXIDE

Climate crisis demands a global tax

Voluntary emissions cuts do not work: a uniform levy will end corruption and spread the burden of reform more fairly

  • Mats Persson
6 min read