What the decision to curtail HS2 and embrace cars means for the UK’s cities: If you consider the decision by the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to cancel phase two of the high-speed rail project, HS2 in the context of the government’s growing pro-car stance, the potential ramifications for the country are profound. Steve Tuckwell’s …
Embrace the Future of Communication with WhichVoIP: A South African Business’s Guide to Migrating from Telkom Fixed Lines to VoIP Services: Is your South African business considering a switch from Telkom fixed lines to a VoIP service provider? This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to make a smooth transition. For South African …
South Africa’s underperforming SMME sector needs to embrace digital transformation to realise its potential. Providing it with the right technology offerings is key.: Two realities are driving business globally, and the SMME sector has to catch the wave or risk jeopardising its future sustainability. Digital transformation was always coming, but its forward momentum has been …
Why we should embrace the joy of dressing ‘outside of the lines’ like Gen Z: Have you seen that cargo pants are back? Young people are once again swishing down hallways and they might even be wearing Crocs on their feet, because these are cool now too. For many this could be seen as dressing …
ChatGPT: Why education should embrace the AI chatbot, not shun it: shutterstock Just under two months ago, the US artificial intelligence company OpenAI introduced a program called ChatGPT. Essentially an advanced chatbot, it has been the subject of much debate. Some commentators have described its answers as very impressive, while others have drawn attention to …
Artificial intelligence is used for predictive policing in the US and UK – South Africa should embrace it, too: Predictive policing may be a useful addition to traditional policing in contexts like South Africa. Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images In the 2002 movie Minority Report (based on a short story by Philip K Dick), …
How ‘GamerGate’ led the gaming industry to embrace more diverse and caring values: 'Cosy gaming' is having its moment. Two Pixel/Shutterstock Video game developers have always sought to “find the fun” for their audiences and to provide players with exciting worlds to escape to. However, the cost of “finding the fun” was highlighted in 2014 …
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Embrace of Belarusian dissidents highlights hypocrisy of eastern Europe’s asylum policies: Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya gives a press conference in Poland. ZUMA Press Inc / Alamy Stock Photo Central and east European members of the European Union have long been adamant opponents of external migration to the EU. But when it comes to extending humanitarian …
South Africa’s way forward: abandon old ideas, embrace bold experimentation: A protest organised by the Congress of South African Trade Unions in South Africa. The question is: on whose behalf does the union movement advocate? Phillip Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images Foundation essay: our foundation essays are longer than usual and take a wider look at …
African countries must embrace the concept of good food as good medicine: Scientist Kafayat Falana testing the viability of cowpea germinated seeds in a laboratory in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images Fresh impetus is being directed into identifying and advocating for scientific priorities in the area of food security and nutrition …
South Africa in the news: EU fails to embrace IP waiver for vaccines: The European Union has criticized the United States’ call for an intellectual property rights waiver for novel coronavirus vaccines and urged Washington to take other steps to ensure the world’s …: “South Africa” – BingNews UK, Indian Covid-19 variants detected in South …
Slow down and embrace nature – how to create better cities when the pandemic is over: MandriaPix/Shutterstock Throughout the past year of working from home, I have gone for numerous morning, lunchtime and evening walks around my neighbourhood in the Eastern parts of Lund in Sweden. My neighbourhood has three dams for storing stormwater in …
Mary Wollstonecraft statue: why public art should be collective, commemorative and embrace abstraction: There was much upset when the first statue tribute to the pioneering feminist and author Mary Wollstonecraft was unveiled at Newington Green, north London. Created by Maggi Hambling (CBE), the silvered bronze sculpture features a small naked woman emerging from the flames …
Cities need to embrace the darkness of the night sky – here’s why: Tungphoto/Shutterstock.com As the coronavirus pandemic has moved around the world, cities have gone into lockdown and people have been encouraged to stay at home. In many places, curfews have been introduced. Back in spring under the first UK lockdown, I went on …
South Africa’s land reform policies need to embrace social, economic and ecological sustainability: Land reform strategies portray the land as uniform, static and independent from its social-environmental context. GettyImages Land reform is central to South Africa’s quest for social justice. During the apartheid era, land was concentrated in the hands of the white minority. Black …
Why businesses embrace populists and what to do about it: lessons from Hungary: The coronavirus crisis has revealed the weaknesses of some populist leaders such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or Donald Trump in the US, yet others are emerging stronger than ever. And they have some unlikely backers. The Serbian government appears to have …
Social distancing: how we overcome fear of one another to embrace a new normal: Shutterstock For the last few months we have been living in a new and acute state of fear as COVID-19 has threatened and continues to threaten the globe. But living with the virus has also taught us new tricks, pushing us …