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Lured: Holidays are no longer at the beach and parents’ social life is devoted to practices, games and tournaments. Photo: Supplied

Water polo: A cult or a sport?

Making it into the school water polo team is the kids’ latest status goal – but this applies to any sport (think rugby or football)

The fallen: The Cenotaph and two statues in Cape Town are in remembrance of both World Wars, showing the Western Front, the East African Campaign and the Battle of Delville Woods. Photo: Jaco Marais/Getty Images

Poppy Day: When did we forget to remember?

The act of remembrance is the recognition of the futility of war and mourning the loss of men and women whose future ended too soon

The mother of Mia Shem holds up a photo of her daughter, who was kidnapped by Hamas militants, at a news conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Photo: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images

War starts when intelligence fails

World history is littered with conflicts that might have been avoided if warnings had been acted on

SUQIAN, CHINA – JANUARY 9, 2023 – Illustration: ChatGPT, Suqian, Jiangsu, China, 9 January 2023. ChatGPT has been banned in New York schools. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Can ChatGTP be trusted? Just ask it …

With chatbots, it’s rubbish in, rubbish out, so be sceptical and substantiate

Students March for no increase to tuition fees in 2016.

High time TikTok generation of student leaders step out of solipsism and into activism

In days gone by campuses were alive with opposition to societal and political injustice

Place of woe: A photograph of an unknown artist’s illustration of the Star Chamber, circa 1800. Photo: Universal History Archive/Getty Images

OPINION| Social media: The new Star Chamber

People can be judged, found guilty and punished for posts they made years before and in a specific context

From order to chaos in a few seconds

The butterfly effect illuminates how even the slightest change in conditions can have massive ramifications down the line

The inefficiency of the Gini coefficient

To simplify complex inequality into a single statistic doesn’t address how to accurately assess (or reduce) South Africa’s large wealth divide

(Gallo)

Balancing the books: Give the auditors some credit

This is an article in reponse to Khaya Sithole’s column on 14 November, The decline and fall of South Africa’s auditing profession