Category: Opinion

By Benjamin H Bradlow Profit margins in South Africa’s minibus taxi industry have been under pressure long before the COVID- When South African Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula announced recently that the government … Read More

By Carina Venter Angola has changed tremendously since the end of its civil war in 2002. The war lasted almost four decades and decimated a country that had received little … Read More

By Tasmin Bradley As the world marks the day of zero tolerance for female genital mutilation, it’s important to reflect on the progress made and the challenges that remain. Shifts in prevalence … Read More

By Gloria Blizzard and Gillian Turnbull Music has been significant for many during COVID-19 isolation, and in these same months Black musicians have amplified the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement. While pop … Read More

By Alexander Diani Kofi Preko The 2019 Year of Return, when Ghana welcomed Africans in the diaspora to participate in events associated with the country’s rich cultural heritage, was an opportunity … Read More

By Marc Zimmer In 2007, I served as a consultant for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ deliberations about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. As a result, I was invited … Read More

By Steven Friedman Claiming, as South Africa’s official opposition the Democratic Alliance (DA) does, that policy must ignore race in South Africa, is like insisting that economic inequality should have … Read More