Browsing: Opinion

There’s nothing like the smell of a new car and the thrill of driving your wheels off the showroom floor.…

by Alysson R. Muotri Gravity can be a real downer when you are trying to grow organs. That’s why experiments…

At a time when the whole world has been forced to make drastic changes to the way in which it…

by Shabir Madhi There isn’t enough clinical research being done in Africa. Less than 2.5% of all clinical trials in…

by Hessy Elliott China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030.…

by Velenkosini Matsebula and Derek Yu An analysis of financial inclusion in South Africa shows that affordability limits poor households’…

by Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo (PhD) Technology is a product of human labour. The working class and society can, therefore, shape…

Money is no longer the commodity it was a decade ago. And yes having money does give one a sense…

As the controversy continues raging around South Africa’s blanket tobacco ban, with British American Tobacco SA’s  (BATSA) court challenge postponed…

Digital upskilling cannot be a gradual process. It requires a fundamental, economy-wide programme to equip our country for the future,…

by David Francis and Imraan Valodia The COVID-19 pandemic has not only generated a far-reaching social and economic crisis in…

by Suraya Hamdulay One of the most encouraging outcomes of the Coronavirus pandemic is the opportunity to literally stop, reflect…

by Tendani Mantshimuli and Vimal Chagan  On Wednesday, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni tabled a national emergency budget outlining reprioritisation of…

By Kashira Naidoo and Zach George According to UNICEF’s Generation 2030/Africa Report, over the next three decades, almost two billion…

There’s no doubt that the lessons COVID-19 has taught the world have been plentiful, often painful, but very valuable. The…

Fibre-based, ultra-high-speed access networks are revolutionising the way we connect with each other and the rest of the world. Changing…

The new world order revolves around technology. We would be doing ourselves an injustice, as professionals, if we assumed we…

by Harun Šiljak In the middle of the night, invisible to anyone but special telescopes in two Chinese observatories, satellite…

by Channing Arndt and Sherman Robinson In trying to limit the spread of COVID-19, policymakers globally have the difficult task…

It is more urgent now than ever before that businesses invest in digital transformation. Since the global lockdown, millions of…

The 13 million jobless South Africans are begging for help, but their cries have been met with a deafening silence.…

by Mills Soko In six months’ time the world’s gaze will be trained on what is gearing up to be…

A high court in South Africa has declared some of the earlier coronavirus restrictions unconstitutional, but it also ruled that…

by Miriam Altman There is intense pressure on the South African government to lift the lockdown and open the economy.…

As the major change event of our times, the global pandemic has brought about an unprecedented experiment in how we…