Water governance: Sustainability matters more than ever

Stephen Sadie|Published

South Africa has been pushed to the brink by the degradation and mismanagement of essential infrastructure, namely water supply and management. In Gauteng, the country’s ...

Is ChatGPT really killing Google?

The Washington Post|Published

There are regular headlines suggesting chatbots like ChatGPT may be taking over for Googling. Maybe you’ve also started using artificial intelligence instead of ...

Jobs crisis requires urgent, principled action

The Editor|Published

South Africa is haemorrhaging jobs at a rate that the economy can no longer bear. The loss of 74 000 formal sector jobs in the first quarter of 2025 - and 95 000 ...

Cloned - Researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated

The Conversation|Published

Is that really the case? According to a recent study by scientists from MIT, it appears so. Using ChatGPT to help write essays, the researchers say, can lead to ...

Researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated

The Conversation|Published

Is that really the case? According to a recent study by scientists from MIT, it appears so. Using ChatGPT to help write essays, the researchers say, can lead to ...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory is a Barack Obama moment

The Washington Post|Published

Obama had to swear over and over that he wasn’t Muslim just to get elected. Minnesota Democratic ...

Tennis is failing to address gambling-fueled abuse seriously

Bloomberg|Published

Wimbledon’s stars will have to endure hundreds of threatening social media posts when the tennis championship unfolds over the next two weeks. Racism, misogyny and ...

Is the semi-colon semi-dead?

The Washington Post|Published

No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced ...

Mozambique after 50 years of independence: what’s there to celebrate?

The Conversation|Published

Mozambique’s government, led by the Frelimo party, has long been planning celebrations for 2025. It is 50 years since independence, won after an anti-colonial war ...

Broken pipes, broken trust: How corruption and vandalism drain SA’s water system

Prof Anja du Plessis|Published

In a country where access to water is a constitutional right, South Africans are increasingly finding themselves at the mercy of dry taps, leaking and bursting pipes, ...

The death of a former Zambian president: diplomacy, grief and ubuntu

Sifiso Sonjica|Published

The complex and contested death and burial of former President Edgar Lungu unveils fault lines within the state, raises questions about family rights, and underscorez ...

Re-inventing the wheel? Computer simulations reveal its unlikely birth 6 000 years ago

The Conversation|Published

Despite the wheel’s immeasurable impact, no one is certain as to who invented it, or when and where it was first conceived. The hypothetical scenario described above ...

I hate Khamenei’s regime, but I love Iran even more.

The Washington Post|Published

I’ve loathed the dictatorship of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for as long as I can remember. I resent the strictures, the atmosphere of moral probity the man in robes ...

There is no one-and-done on Iran

The Washington Post|Published

Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran’s hard-to-reach nuclear site at Fordow would appear that it have worked out better. But there will be more tough decisions for ...

Is ‘Trump always chickens out’ worth repeating?

The Washington Post|Published

To see his political allies on Wall Street call him weak and goad him into a Truth Social tantrum scratches a particular itch. But this attack enrages Trump only ...

The battle on antisemitism: Fighting prejudice with prejudice

The Washington Post|Published

In the aftermath of a Molotov cocktail in Boulder and the tragedy in Washington just 11 days earlier, when two employees of the Israeli Embassy, ...

Is FIFA’s attempt to establish a global club game doomed before it starts?

The Conversation|Published

FIFA are slashing prices for the opening match: Inter Miami against Egypt’s Al-Ahly. Less than a third of tickets at the 65 000-seat Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, ...

Do people really resemble their dogs?

The Conversation|Published

The idea that people and dogs resemble each other is not just a joke. Researchers have been studying different aspects of the human–animal bond for ages.

Looming meat crisis in South Africa

The Editor|Published

South Africa faces a potential meat supply crisis as the government implements emergency measures to contain foot-and-mouth disease while grappling with halted poultry ...