As the fourth industrial revolution and Covid co-conspire to flip the world of work upside down, technology has the potential to address our inequalities, or deepen them
The reactions to Elon Musk’s billionaire status are evidence that far too many South Africans have not fully grasped the destructive consequences of inequality. Entrepreneur Musk was recently crowned the richest man in the world. The founder and chief of Tesla Motors sits on a total net worth of $195-billion. The rapid swelling of Musk’s […]
To simplify complex inequality into a single statistic doesn’t address how to accurately assess (or reduce) South Africa’s large wealth divide
It’s the Age of Humans — the Anthropocene — and the most serious threats to our experience and existence on our planet are human-made
We need a profound rethinking of the meaning of sustainability in sport — the global commercial model is neither environmentally nor socially sound
The pandemic has reminded us of interconnectedness and that we need to see the world from various perspectives, especially in case studies
Civil society helped topple apartheid, but the struggle is not over. The gap between rich and poor has widened and corruption and poor governance is evident
An activist art collective is refusing to leave a luxury holiday home, claiming their protest is to highlight landlessness and growing inequality in Cape Town
A 10-point plan for streamlining South Africa’s economy
South African inventions that have changed the world are all underpinned by research, development and significant financial backing — to lose this would be tragic
‘We believe that opening schools without addressing an unfair and unequal education system that disadvantages poor, working class and rural children will increase inequality.’
South Africa’s economic, racial and social divides invite unrest that will leave us all worse off
The headcount of black students at all universities stood at 84.8% in 2017 compared with 14.3% of white students. In 2005 black students comprised 74.5% of the university population while white students made up 25.3%
Reopening of schools seems to be less about the teachers, parents and students and more about desperate attempts to rescue our failing and unsustainable capitalist economy
Women and black people occupy only a few seats at the JSE table, the latest PwC report has found
The obvious hurdle is how to deal with economic inequalities among students, while other difficulties are communication without the physical aspects and how to build trust.
Although Africans must continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement, there is also the need for them to raise their voices against injustices in other African countries
With the closure of schools, learning has moved to online platforms across the world, but a UNESCO report said only 12% of households in the least-developed countries have internet access at home
A report from Unesco highlights a lack of access to online learning: only 12% of learners in sub-Saharan Africa can connect to the internet at home
The world has a chance to improve the lives of women, especially those living in Africa
We cannot return to the pre-coronavirus crisis of unemployment, inequality and poverty. There is a moral incentive for the rich to give up some of their wealth and for the salaries of top earning civil servants, employees at state-owned entities and in the private sector to be cut
The protests are rooted not in the pandemic, but in centuries of discrimination
The Covid-19 pandemic provides a chance to reflect on, reimagine and reset the global economic system
Sipho Kings has been appointed the acting editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian
Using a variety of methods and interactions, teachers and students have had to adapt to a new idea of the classroom
Unlike the virus, there is no treatment for global warming except to immediately abandon economic activities that cause it
Local government and councillors have largely failed to deliver services and on their mandate because of a lack of will to do their jobs, corruption and a shortage of people with skills
Why is the visual depiction of this country in centre-left international online news publications so unrecognisable?
Students at the former homeland universities battle with conditions created by poverty
Forcing students to study online perpetuates inequalities and stress that not even academics are prepared for
When people call South Africa the most unequal country in the world, they’re talking about income. Now, we have a clear picture of how unequally the country’s wealth is distributed
We need to be free from gross inequalities and have a responsibility to change this through compassion, justice and sacrifice