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Workers demand that they be made permanent employees of provincial health departments — with higher salaries, as well as medical aid and pension benefits — instead of being outsourced to nonprofits organisations that pay them stipend.

Globally people are adopting Africa’s heritage of resilience wisdom

Flocking is a response to a crisis and hardship, when families, social groups, villages, countries and even the usually competitive individuals and businesses come together to…

A Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) supporter holds up a poster during an election campaign rally in Mokgweetsi Masisi’s, President of Botswana and leader of the BDP, home village in Moshupa.  (Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP)

Botswana’s media is in crisis

COMMENT We live in a divided political environment and amid radical economic disparities. But there is one thing on which virtually everyone in Botswana agrees: most of the news…

Zim elections: Parties go hunting for young voters

Zanu-PF promises wealth, and the MDC has put jobs for the youth at the centre of its campaign.

Founder of social media site buys it back for a bargain

Can he reinvent it? Who knows, but he says it will be fun trying.

IBM announced that it would be opening a research laboratory

Online censorship in 2012

The number of countries filtering online content has increased. Pornography and security are reasons given to block politically sensitive information.

All alone together in the big city.

Khaya Dlanga: Love thy neighbour – from a distance

Even though we desire solitude, we can’t stand being by ourselves. Good thing we have Twitter, writes Khaya Dlanga.

Artists poke fun at virtual lives

Artists poke fun at virtual lives

Web 2.0 companies and social networks have become fodder for the work of Dutch artists writes <strong>Natalie Dixon</strong>.

Where are the new social networks?

The technology scene has echoes of the post-dotcom exhaustion of 2002 as we wait for mobiles to catch up.