Send desktop notifications and reminders from Linux terminal: Sometimes it’s useful to get visual feedback from a script. For example, when a script or cron job completes, a long-running build fails, or there is an urgent problem during script execution. Desktop applications can do this with popup notifications, but it can be done from a …
South Africa in the news: African Free Trade Area kicks off, but with reminders of major obstacles at borders: It was by coincidence rather than design that the African market got bigger on the same day that Europe shrunk. Britain exited the EU on the first day of this year, just as African countries started …
Five reminders of how visual artists can invoke and stir deep emotions: Sikhumbuzo Makandula’s 'Ubuzwe II', 2016, Digital photograph: Inkjet on Epsom Ultrasmooth. The mural kaSebe/Sebe's Lip (2011) is by artist Buntu Fihla. Review 2016: This has been a year most of humanity would like to forget with war, disasters, racism, sexism and, especially in …