South Africa needs to fix its dangerously wide wealth gap: Wealth inequality is a bigger challenge than income inequality in South Africa Shutterstock South Africa is known for its extreme income inequality, which is one of the highest in the world. Ten percent of the population earn around 55%–60% of all income, compared to only …
Improving with age – our perception of growing old needs some get up and go: Making waves. Shutterstock “Weak”, “sick”, “immobile”, “decrepit”, “lonely”, “depressed”. If the prospect of growing old brings thoughts like these to mind, you are not alone. It seems that many people – of all age groups – have a preconceived idea …
South Africa in the news: Madonsela says SA needs to prioritise, invest more in quality education: The theme: Challenges faced by higher education institutions: Students’ demands versus Government responses. During her address, Madonsela said that South Africa is not investing enough in education was a concern.: “South Africa” – BingNews Beware high online booking prices …
Repatriating refugees is Kenya’s only answer. But it needs help: Somali families on a bus taking them back home to Somalia from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp in a voluntary repatriation programme. Reuters/Edmund Blair Kenya shocked the world when it announced earlier this year that it would be closing the globe’s largest refugee camp, Dadaab. Citing …
Why UEFA’s approach to flags at football matches needs a rethink: Two European football ties involving Israeli teams in France and the UK in the second half of August have thrown an uncomfortable spotlight on how UEFA handles politics. The first was Celtic’s Champions League qualifier in Glasgow against the Israeli club Hapoel Be’er Sheva …
South Africa in the news: To starve the beast of finance, fintech needs regulatory support: James Saft: South Africa interest rates to rise again in November despite weak economy JOHANNESBURG South Africa’s Reserve Bank is expected to raise interest rates in November in its fight to lower inflation, despite much weaker economic growth, a Reuters …
South Africa in the news: Op-Ed: South Sudan needs new ideas and can learn from South Africa: John Harker is a former Canadian diplomat with extensive experience in African security issues. His engagement with Africa began when he served as advisor on African Liberation Movements to Canada’s Prime Minister at the 1979 Commonwealth Heads of …
Why breastfeeding in South Africa still needs champions: Shutterstock Breastfeeding has been proven to protect the health of mothers and babies. It naturally inoculates babies against disease because the mother’s immune system kick starts the baby’s ability to resist illness. This applies in both low-income and high-income settings. For mothers, breastfeeding is also good. It …
African philosophy needs to blossom. Being exclusionary won’t help: Shutterstock Devotees of the popular series “Game of Thrones” may recall Jaime Lannister’s fatal, but memorable, quip: “The things we do for love”. He said this just before hurling a ten-year-old boy down a high castle wall. The boy’s “crime”? He’d caught Lannister in an incestuous …
South Africa in the news: When 95 million Nigerians are living without electricity something needs to change: When compared to South Africa, which has a population of 53.6M and an installed generating capacity of 44,000 MW of electricity, the scale of the challenge facing Nigeria begins to come to the fore. More so, given that …
What South Africa needs to do to step away from the downgrade precipice: Shutterstock In early June the international debt rating agency Standard & Poor’s granted a stay of execution by not downgrading the South African government’s IOU certificate to a “junk debt” status. This preserved the country’s credit worthiness as investment grade. South Africa …
Corbyn must go – Labour needs to choose a new leader wisely, but quickly: With accusations that he didn’t give 100% to campaigning for remaining in the EU over the past few months, and resignations coming thick and fast from multiple shadow cabinet members, it’s increasingly likely that Jeremy Corbyn will need to stand down …
Sam the Dog Got to Space, Now He Needs Help Getting Home: Our cuddly toy dog and English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues mascot was sent on a space mission by school children for their science project. He launched from the roof of The Midland and was filmed by a camera in his helium balloon. …
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On January 20, Andreas Gal, former CTO of Mozilla, the company behind the popular open source browser Mozilla Firefox, announced in a blog post that former Mozilla CEO and Javascript founder Brendan Eich had launched a browser called Brave. “Brendan is back to save the web,” Andreas wrote, and I quickly went to the Brave …
Back in 2013, some contributors to the Fedora project were puzzled. They’d been issued digital badges like Paranoid Panda, Curious Penguin, and Master Editor but weren’t sure why. Master Editor seemed relatively straightforward to understand—after all, Fedora contributors are known for their edits to the wiki—but what were the first two all about? Upon further …