Apr 01, 2024 04:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
This morning, breakfast television shows will be reporting obscure, although mildly believable, announcements from organisations and brands about new products, services or discoveries. Social media platforms will also be...
A sustainable future begins at ground level
Apr 01, 2024 03:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a call to action in global partnership. By 2023 it appears that our progress has been far from satisfactory in achieving these...
Leadership transparency alone doesn’t guarantee employees will speak up in the workplace
Apr 01, 2024 03:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
Leaders are often encouraged to be open, authentic and vulnerable at work. Employees are similarly told their voices matter in the workplace and to speak up when they need to. But, being open and honest at work is not...
How science and religion came together to build a ‘new Pompeii’
Apr 01, 2024 03:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
The history of how a new city of Pompeii was built in the 19th century is little known, but a new exhibit reveals its story. The exhibition, held in the Catholic shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii,...
Ukraine recap: Russia won’t attack Nato countries says Putin, believe it or not
Apr 01, 2024 03:48 am UTC| Insights & Views
Vladimir Putin says has no intention of attacking any Nato members. Visiting an airbase in Torzhok, on the road between Moscow and St Petersburg, the Russian president told a group of pilots he didnt plan to spark a war...
Digital trade protocol for Africa: why it matters, what’s in it and what’s still missing
Apr 01, 2024 03:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In February 2024, African heads of states adopted a draft protocol to regulate digital trade within the continent. This significant yet challenging course for Africas digital economy fits into the broader trade agreement,...
Apr 01, 2024 03:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
If older women move through the world with a sense of being unseen, in the world of books, and especially in contemporary fiction, they have all but been erased. So pervasive is their absence, it is nearly possible to draw...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects