Gattaca, the 1997 dystopian science fiction film by Andrew Niccol, was prescient. It anticipated the inauguration of a newly class-stratified society based on genetics, the manipulation of genes to ...

Covid-19 and its socioeconomic consequences has emphasised people’s need for these places: research, biodiversity conservation, plants for food, health and cultural purposes, and open space in ...

South Africa is renowned for its revisionism, and numbing down days of historical significance into occasions that resemble festivity, rather than their revolutionary origin and essence. African ...

If you have ever been invited by an enthusiastic family member, friend, or work colleague to attend the graduation of a seminar that “transformed” their life, but they refused to provide details about ...

In 2008 Zimbabwe suffered arguably the worst cholera outbreak in Africa to date. Close to 100 000 people were infected, and more than 4 000 died as a result of a significant breakdown in water and ...

Living a decent life requires access to material necessities such as food, shelter and healthcare. And this access can’t be precarious, it must be secure. The possibility of holistic well-being, such ...

Stare too long at either of the three faces and a distinctly troubling sensation overwhelms you. You may look to Antoinette Sithole on the far left, and quickly turn your eyes away in a similar kind ...

The road trip is how travelling used to be. It wasn’t that long ago that most travelling took place not in giant, silver time-machines that roar from airport to airport, but on wheels that travel ...

Mothers killing their children is not a new phenomenon, nor is it an “isolated case”, as the police in Timaru, New Zealand have maintained in an attempt to reassure the community. It is, however, a ...

Covid-19 and its socioeconomic consequences has emphasised people’s need for these places: research, biodiversity conservation, plants for food, health and cultural purposes, and open space in ...

Something’s a brewing, and something’s a bubbling in the flavour pot of world music and it comes from an unlikely source: South Korea. The K-pop/K-culture fare has spilled over into South Africa and ...

In 2016, ahead of his 85th birthday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu penned an opinion piece for The Washington Post on the topic of euthanasia. Challenging the dominant church view, he wrote that “dying ...