There are a lot of people who talk the talk about making a difference so it's always such a treat to find groups who walk the walk too.
I’ve been on the lookout for an inspiring cause to support and last week I stumbled on the perfect one (for m...
2008 began as a year of possibility. The second half of this year marks the midpoint of our time allotted to meet the Millennium Development Goals; the midpoint of our quest to make aid more effective through the Paris Declaration; and the review of ...
Late in the 1990s, a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study appeared that shed light on an age-old struggle, and did so in a novel way.
In his book The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image (published by Penguin Arkana,...
There is unanimous agreement that South Africa's education is in crisis. What we can't agree on is how to fix it. It seems that everyone has their two cents' worth of wisdom: "What we need is ...", "It's time to ...", "The thing is ...", "You see, if...
For many fans of Harry Potter, the last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, does not signify the end of the story. There are thousands of young people who write their own additions to, subplots within, and alternative endings o...
Polokwane taught us that South Africans are tired of promises and of people with posh voices telling us what to do and doing nothing themselves.
We begin 2008 with dreadful matric results -- 21 500 young people failed in Gauteng alone. How is...
After attending a few sessions at the Highway Africa conference in Grahamstown last week, I struggled to find an answer to the question: How will convergence make our democracy better?
Discussion about digital media and convergence tends to focus...
Currently innovative, bright and spirited entrepreneurs are driving the South African economy. The generation of boardroom businessmen is a thing of the past and the conceptual generation has taken the reigns. Looking at past and current business and...
Someone told me the other day that we live in a society of illiterates, that kids don't read any more and that the quality of our interaction with words is declining because of TV and tabloid newspapers. All I could say in response was: "Huh?"
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