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Africa does not lack ideals; it has proclaimed them often and well. What it now requires is discipline, execution and political courage on a continental scale. The most fitting tribute to the founders will not be remembrance. It will be readiness.

Africa must rise, for good

Our simple argument is that the Second Scramble for Africa shouldn’t happen on our watch when we have so much at our disposal to avert this age-old plunder. It is a shameful…

Leadership: President Daniel Chapo reinforces the morale of Mozambican and Rwandan troops in the fight against terrorism in Northern Mozambique. Photos: Mozambican Presidency

Mozambique target of debunked narrative

There is no evidence that the Mozambican state committed abuses in Afungi

Flight Centre’s year in travel 2024: where you went and where you’re headed next…

Your ticket to insider travel scoops, data bites, and expert predictions for the year ahead

Previously unseen: In 1964 Cole travelled to Frenchdale, a remote settlement in the Northern Cape, to document the lives of these internally displaced political exiles

A reshoot of Ernest Cole

Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself

PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 22: A general view of the Eiffel Tower ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 22, 2024 in Paris, France.  (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Bickering and ‘cold sweat’ as Paris built its Games

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo vetoed TotalEnergies as a sponsor for the Olympics

South Africans discover the world via marathons

Athletes are packing their trainers to explore foreign cities

City of slight: Ashley Park as Mindy and Lily Collins as Emily. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix

One Show Two Takes: Emily in Paris Season 3

It’s still shallow and unrealistic, and the acting is not the best, but the show makes for great vacuous escapism

A tourist takes a picture of a Christmas tree illuminated in front of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on December 4, 2007 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

10 things you probably didn’t know about Notre Dame

As a new film attempts to explain the events of the 2019 blaze that damaged parts of Notre Dame, Bongeka Gumede looks into the building’s history

As South Africa steps into a new chapter with the Climate Change Act, it is crucial to question the depth of its commitment and the substance of its promises. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

COP27: SA receives an extra $10-bn to shift from fossil fuels

But the funding will come at a price, given that the $8.5-bn pledged last year, was mostly in the form of loans

Education is key to giving our children a chance to navigate, and thrive in, a complex modernity (Photo: Pers-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Future of our world is in our hands

Education is key to giving our children a chance to navigate, and thrive in, a complex modernity

TotalEnergies (formerly known as Elf, and then Total) was, in 1971, aware of the harmful effects of global warming caused by burning fossil fuels. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Total knew it was fuelling climate change since the 1970s

New scientific research shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation

Courting influence: Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (left) met Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou (right) in July, before visiting Mali after the coup that ousted a France-friendly government. (Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via AFP)

Turkey goes on charm offensive in West Africa

The foreign minister’s visits to Mali, Senegal and Niger leverage colonial-era hurts to pave the way for Turkey’s investment in francophone Africa

A new book has collected writing about the condition of living, yes, with a high crime rate, but also other, more pervasive existential urban stresses particular to the Global South   (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Journey through anxious Joburg

A new book has collected writing about the condition of living, yes, with a high crime rate, but also other, more pervasive existential urban stresses particular to the Global…

Pretty fly: The VoloCity flying taxi.

France will test flying taxis from next year, say operators

A drone-like, fully-electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (VTOL) dubbed VoloCity, produced by German company Volocopter, was chosen for the innovative trial with flying…

LIghts up: Paris came out dancing after the coronavirus lockdown was lifted.

Paris throws off mask to party like the virus never was

Social distancing and face masks were largely forgotten as thousands of French people danced and partied well into Monday in the first big blow out since the coronavirus lockdown

Borderless: Mo Laudi seeks to present the journey of African musics in his installations, offering an alternative to his dancefloor explorations. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Remapping African musics

Itinerant DJ and artist Mo Laudi works hard to ensure the continent’s sounds secure their rightful recognition

Work provider: Wetlands are natural water filters and provide trillions of dollars in services annually and a livelihood for about a billion people.  (Henri Tabarant/AFP)

Our wonderful wetlands need protection now

Humanity is amazed by our natural world but fails to value its importance to our survival

Penny Siopsis, Act I Scene II

Strauss & Co’s November sale explores South African art’s love affair with Paris

‘Paris was a beacon for countless South African artists’

LIghts up: Paris came out dancing after the coronavirus lockdown was lifted.

Selfish green commuters annoy Parisians

Paris is pushing back against the dominance of the car

Snow patrol: Climate change has driven destructive weather events around the world. Carbon emissions are responsible for trapping heat and warming the Earth, causing extreme weather. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Carbon catastrophe is hurtling towards us

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has jumped to its highest level in human history