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African ratings agency a feasible option?

But international investors are unlikely to accept ratings they perceive as lenient

Andrew Buckland, puppeteer Craig Leo, Markus Schabbing, Michael K and Carlo Daniels in Life & Times of Michael K at the Market in Joburg

Puppets, prose and perseverance: JM Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K comes to life

The author’s classic is reimagined through puppetry in a powerful stage adaptation

A man wears a traditional Kankurang mask along the beach in the popular tourist area of Senegambia in Banjul on December 6, 2021. (Photo: John Wessels/AFP)

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The highlights of 2021 in Africa

Italian scholar and physicist Giorgio Parisi speaks to the media as he arrives on October 5, 2021 at the Lincean Academy (Accademia dei Lincei) in Rome, after co-winning the Nobel Physics Prize. – US-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy on October 5, 2021 won the Nobel Physics Prize for climate models and the understanding of physical systems. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Nobel prize for physics is a game-changer

The physics 2021 Nobel prize means the conversation is no longer about debating whether climate change is real, but rather what we should do about it

When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to po?wer in 2018, the political reforms and initiatives he promised were met with much hope and optimi?sm. (Tiksa Negeri/Reuters)
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Why Ethiopians are losing faith in Abiy’s promises for peace

The prime minister may have won the Nobel Peace Prize but he has failed to quell the violence in his own backyard

And as South Africa marks Human Rights Day, thirty years after human dignity was written into law, this is the reckoning we cannot postpone.

The poverty of poor economics

The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty

“Lithium batteries have revolutionised our lives since they first entered the market in 1991

US-UK-Japan trio win chemistry Nobel for lithium-ion battery

The trio will receive the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10

William Nordhaus argues markets can help curb climate change. (Craig Ruttle/AP)

Nobel award recognises how economic forces can fight climate change

Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life’s work to understanding the costs of climate change

Women scientists still ‘undervalued’ despite twin Nobel wins

Canadian scientist Donna Strickland became just the third woman in history to win the Nobel Physics Prize

Nobel laureate and former UN chief Kofi Annan.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan dies

Annan was a career diplomat who is widely credited for raising the world body’s profile in global politics during his two terms as UN chief

‘Richard van der Ross made an extraordinary contribution to the field of early childhood development in South Africa

Innovative pioneers of early learning

The Early Learning Resource Unit looks back on 40 years of successful development

Africa’s writer NgugiwaThiong’o.

We need our own Nobel and an academy

We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.

Tempest is an album that’s an amalgam of the blues

Blowin’ in the wind: How Nobel winner Bob Dylan rewrote history without a pen

The singer-songwriter has always stood for a craftsmanship and artistry that make his Nobel deserved and unsurprising.

The fount of honour in South Africa, he who decides on such prizes, is … whaa! No 1

And the Companions of OR Tambo award for friendly foreigners goes to … the Guptas, of course.

Historian of emotions wins the Nobel

Belarussian Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel prize for literature for her thousands of oral histories that map the implosion of the Soviet Union.