The sights, scents and sounds of Zanzibar include a 73-year-old tale of the iconic late British singer-songwriter. Dress conservatively when...
On a blazingly bright morning at the end of the South By Southwest music and technology conference, Rico Nasty takes the stage at the Fader Fort...
A story of hopelessness, drugs and crime and an athlete who conquered land and sea, on crutches. Xolani Luvuno will enter this year’s prestigious New York...
There’s been a recent increase globally in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. This can be seen in recent measles outbreaks in parts of the world where it was thought to have...
Several studies, covering about 58 countries across the world, found that as women get older they are more able to make decisions independently of men. But scholars have struggled to...
When Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo shockingly defeated legendary Go player Lee Sedol in 2016, the terms artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning were propelled into...
Cyclone Idai, which recently devastated Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, was one of the worst natural disasters to hit the southern African region. It killed at least a thousand people and...
In a popular BuzzFeed article, Anne Helen Petersen describes how millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996) became “the burnout generation”. She describes some of the stark consequences...
Kenya’s first human milk bank has opened at Pumwani Maternity Hospital. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, spoke to the team spearheading APHRC’s research efforts in...
Airbnb is the lead investor in a new $160 million funding round for hospitality startup Lyric. The $30 billion home-sharing platform was joined by a host of...
Ask nearly any leading banker or financial executive to go on the record about blockchain, and you are liable to hear crickets. After all, it’s an...
South Africa is on its way to another record with Africa’s tallest building. A new superstructure is making its mark in Sandton in the heart of...
The inner city of Johannesburg is expected to turn into a giant construction site this year. An in-depth look at how the past is being revived...
The U.S. government has disclosed more of its case against WikiLeaks cofounder Julian Assange. It hinges on a claim he and Chelsea Manning worked together to...
Email and smart phones can be stressful. Academics are calling this constant work connection “technostress”. Consequently, many European countries are now offering employees the “right to disconnect”. The...
The great outdoors now come with all luxury trappings. Glamping offers comforts that, at times, exceed services provided by five-star hotels. Tourism in Soweto, a township...
