How to humanise a robot
There is no escaping artificial intelligence. No matter how clever we think we are, our lives are going to be...
Africa
Half of SA teachers want out because of violence, exhaustion
A new study has found that half of South Africa’s teachers are considering leaving the profession within the next decade,...
South Africa’s energy future lies in innovation
And just like that, we’re back! The past 10 months with no load-shedding has been great, but every day without...
Sterkfontein Caves reopened after safety upgrades
After a two-year closure prompted by safety concerns and conservation efforts, the Sterkfontein Caves—one of South Africa’s most celebrated paleoanthropological...
Why Pope Francis’s papacy mattered for Africa
The death of Pope Francis in an Italian hospital on 21 April 2025 marks the end of a significant era for the...
Pope Francis: The end of a radical papacy born in the south
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 1936, died on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025, aged 88....
South Africa needs innovation by design to fix fragile, failing systems
South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world. The statistics as reported by the World Bank...
The God Edition | The runner’s high is the smug hill on which I’ll die
I don’t have religious convictions. My approach to my own agnosticism is to argue that any all-powerful, ever-loving creator, if...
‘We just want to sleep without fear we will be killed in our beds’
In Nigeria’s Plateau state, Martha Dalyop awoke to gunfire one night in December. Within minutes, her village was surrounded by...
The God Edition | Searching among the bones for Homo naledi’s soul
Did Homo naledi have a soul? That may sound like a very strange question, but let me explain the context....
