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Homegrown vs Big Pharma: Who stands to benefit from the legal market for medical marijuana?

Friday Guy Oliver - 15 Sep 2020

Cannabis is scheduled for its South African parole on September 18. Kelly McQue’s handy medical marijuana producers’ guide is an opening salvo against corporate medicine’s demand for exclusive rights to the plant’s healing powers

Meet Lula Ali Ismaïl, Djibouti’s ‘First Lady of Film’

Africa Samira Sawlani - 17 Jul 2020

Lula Ali Ismaïl’s first feature-length film, Dhalinyaro, was a smash hit in her home country — and beyond

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Spain did it, so why can’t South Africa nationalise healthcare to save lives?

Article Nimi Hoffmann - 12 Apr 2020

South Africa is working towards establishing a publicly-funded universal health service and now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, is the time to implement it

Olympics halt good for everyone

Article Luke Feltham - 26 Mar 2020

They took time, but the International Olympic Committee have finally done the responsible thing and postponed Tokyo 2020

4.6 million people, one psychologist: The Central African Republic’s mental health crisis

Africa Will Baxter & Simon Allison - 6 Mar 2020

Meet the Central African Republic’s only practising clinical psychologist

Coronavirus reaction: Sinophobia with Western characteristics

Analysis Ahmed Olayinka Sule - 24 Feb 2020

Western media has racialised the coronavirus outbreak, leading to increased Sinophobia in several countries. Such dehumanisation of a race has no place in functioning democracies

Japan-style chain Miniso does a runner

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 21 Feb 2020

After being in South Africa for almost three years, Miniso left without a trace late last year. This exit has now left a group of franchisees, who have invested millions of rands in its stores, with massive losses

WHO urges calm as China coronavirus death toll reaches 2000

Article Laurent Thomet - 19 Feb 2020

More than 74 000 people have now been infected by the virus in China, with hundreds more cases in some 25 countries

China coughs, investors catch a chill

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 31 Jan 2020

The outbreak of the coronavirus is having a negative effect on global markets

The global spread of the coronavirus: Where is it?

Article Agency - 28 Jan 2020

A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 81 lives since emerging in...

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End the global media crisis to build democracy

Article Mark M Nelson - 22 Nov 2019

Raising development assistance for the media could help to advance other development goals

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Musician hunted in Kenya, humiliated in South Africa, at home in Canada

Article Jan Borman - 15 Nov 2019

After coming out as gay, the Kenyan musician fled to South Africa seeking asylum. Yet he faced discrimination here too

Strip away the blackface that causes so much pain

Article Colin Chasi 1 - 25 Sep 2019

Canada’s leader, seen as an antidote America’s Donald Trump, is accused of concealing prejudice

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Finished at 23, eSports players peer nervously into retirement

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Aug 2019

In the most frenzied eSports games, players can be finished by 23 because reactions supposedly slow after that

Industry and campaigners spar over carbon tax

Article Beatrice Debut - 17 Jul 2019

The new tax, the first of its type in Africa, was cautiously introduced last month in the first of several gradual step

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Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’

Lester Kiewit - 26 Sep 2020

The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase

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No ‘I’ in team – but there is an ‘EA’

Eyaaz Matwadia - 26 Sep 2020

With internet lag keeping them from global competition, local gamers have settled on a format for EA’s FIFA 2020 allows 11 people to play as a team. And the prize money in local leagues is growing. Eyaaz Matwadia boots up for the first instalment of Gaming Corner

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Q&A Sessions: Mari Stimie and opera’s next act

Cayleigh Bright - 26 Sep 2020

The producer spoke to Cayleigh Bright on the day the Cape Town Opera returned to rehearsals after almost six months of lockdown about the future-proof transcendence, resilience and relatability of opera

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UNISA hosts its first TEDx event

[email protected] - 26 Sep 2020

The Elephant in the Room Tedx event at UNISA will help to create meaningful change in South Africa through the power of ideas

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SA’s SEZs create decent jobs

special reports - 25 Sep 2020

The Special Economic Zone programme is used as a critical tool for accelerating the country’s industrial development agenda

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The new normal in tourism is business unusual

special reports - 25 Sep 2020

Innovation and changing trends have kept some tour operators in the green, though most have struggled during the tight lockdown

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TENDER NO. BOBS 05/2020 PROVISION OF CERTIFICATION SERVICES TO BOTSWANA BUREAU OF STANDARDS QUALITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES

special reports - 25 Sep 2020

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The Galaxy Z Fold2 smartphone breaks all the rules

special reports - 25 Sep 2020

The Galaxy Z Fold2 has meaningful innovations that offer users enhanced refinements and some unique foldable user experiences

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Adventures, ghost tours and big skies await visitors to the Cape Winelands

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

All of the CWDM destinations are accessible within a 30- to 120-minute drive from Cape Town, creating real value for money

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SingularityU Online Summit to contribute to SME growth in 2020

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

The global speakers lined up for this year's event will address the challenges and opportunities specifically facing small businesses

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Policy priorities lie with urgent economic reforms

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

Professor Raymond Parsons believes that business and consumer sentiment in South Africa would both benefit from even lower borrowing costs