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Patriarchal African societies don’t just sideline women socially but also in terms of technology.
CODING

There is an urgent need for policies in order to bridge the digital gender divide

Technologies rapidly transform society, allowing for unprecedented advances in the human condition but women are often barred from the race

  • Chrissy Dube
7 min read
Small businesses are central to South Africa’s economic resilience and recovery and corporates should work with them. Photo: David Harrison/M&G
EDUCATION REVOLUTION

South Africa needs an economic revolution

Government agencies cannot improve on the competitiveness of open markets.

  • Eustace Davie
6 min read
AFRICA

Excavating the role of Africans in the creation of the modern world

Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without the continent’s natural resources and centuries of cheap African labour

  • Anakwa Dwamena
19 min read
It may be that the most important lesson this pandemic has to teach us is that we don’t control nearly as many things as we like to think we do.
CORONAVIRUS

Covid-19’s lesson: The stars bandy us about in which way pleases them

Science, education, technological advancement and wealth made us feel we are protected and have power over life, but we can’t control everything

  • John Davenport
3 min read