Storm Rhoda is using AI and machine learning to tackle issues ranging from pneumonia to recycling inefficiencies.
Buoyed by nearly R890 billion in investment pledges announced at the sixth South Africa Investment Conference (SAIC), President Cyril Ramaphosa has raised the country’s investment target to R3 trillion. Speaking at the close of this year’s conference, Ramaphosa struck a bullish note, saying the scale of commitments from business and government showed that South Africa’s…
When the Stadium Becomes a Mirror of the Street Public life rarely moves in straight lines. A city can feel calm for weeks, then one match, one march, one headline changes the mood in a single evening. That is one reason sport matters beyond trophies and league tables. It gives people a common language for…
It’s a warm Saturday afternoon in Cape Town. Music lovers are beginning to trickle into the CTICC hosting the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF). I’m in the media centre, excited for my next interview of the day. In walks Fatoumata Diawara, the artist I have been looking forward to speaking to. She immediately greets…
On a weekday afternoon in Johannesburg, the doors of Goodman Gallery are open in the way they have been for decades. Inside, a new exhibition by Hank Willis Thomas fills the space. For Liza Essers, it is a familiar kind of milestone. “He’s actually the first artist that I took on when I took over…
A cultural extravagance is one way to describe Mzansi Magic’s new coming-of-age show, Mgidi Moms. A first-of-its-kind, the original reality series explores the formative journey of Xhosa boys as they transition into manhood through initiation, seen through the eyes of the mothers or zibazana who support them every step of the way. Similar to the Jewish…
The Easter festival day, when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, is as old as the resurrection faith itself — the very foundation of the Christian faith. Christians believe that Jesus was sentenced to death and executed by crucifixion for the salvation of humanity and all creation, on the day we commemorate as Good Friday….
There is a way war settles into the body long before it ever reaches the ground beneath your feet. It arrives first as a headline, a flicker on a screen, a number too large to comprehend. Then it grows teeth. It becomes names. Faces. A child carried through dust. A mother counting what is left….
Last year I visited Abu Dhabi and apart from the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the place I most wanted tosee was the Abrahamic Family House. The concept of a compound containing places of worship from all three Abrahamic religions standing side by side fascinated me. I was raised attending the Catholic Church, so Sunday Mass and…
The first signs of municipal collapse do not appear in council meetings, parliament or in political party boardrooms where coalitions are discussed. They appear in burst water pipes left unrepaired for months, in roads riddled with potholes, in the hum of generators as communities brace for rolling power outages caused by transformer failures and in…