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In August this year, as I began writing this essay, South Africa’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Blade Nzimande, was leading a high-level delegation on an extensive science and innovation visit to my homeland, Tunisia. Such deepening pan-African collaboration is a development to celebrate. When I visited South Africa for the first time…
In November 1863, casting his eye across the Gettysburg battlefield where thousands of soldiers had died in the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech that to this day remains one of the most quoted when the topic of democracy comes up. He declared: “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have…
Psychologists tell us that children begin to distinguish right from wrong as early as the age of six or seven. In South Africa, the legal age of responsibility is 18 and science has shown that full cognitive maturity develops at about 25 years of age. By these standards, South Africa, at 31 years into its…