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SURELY, WE ARE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE we were two years ago. We learned to make work work from remote corners and stepped into a permeable hybrid, distributed world where even the bedroom can morph into an impromptu boardroom on Zoom. We felt wretched a

THE WAR IN Ukraine has dominated the news over the last few weeks. There are no winners in war; sadly, as always, it is people who will suffer. The colossal migration of people, the irreparable loss of life and accompanied suffering, the destruction

IN MARCH, AFRICAN PHILANTHROPIST AND SOCIAL entrepreneur, Tsitsi Masiyiwa, and other world philanthropists came together to raise $1 billion to advance gender equality and women’s leadership. The organization, Co-Impact, launched The Gender Fund to b

THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO UKRAINE was in 1992. The country had just declared independence from the Soviet Union and flying there from South Africa, I could not help but make comparisons. Whereas Africa was alive with greenery and warmth, the dullness

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE FIVE DEBRIS islands – just waste – in our seas worldwide? For example, there is an entire floating island of trash, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, somewhere in the North Pacific Ocean, now greater in size than South Afri

IN APRIL 2021, 23-YEAR-OLD social media marketer, Aviella Frankel, reconnected with someone she considered a very close friend. She had met him years ago at the local church in her hometown in Cape Town. Because they lived in the same area and she ha

DUMISANI KALIATI’S UNIVERSITY was close to a hospital, and each time he would walk past it, he would meet women asking for money. He would later find out why – they were patients coming from far, from districts outside Blantyre, in Malawi, and needin

SOLVING PROBLEMS MAY BE PAR for the course for mathematicians, but incoming Absa Group Chairman Sello Moloko may be about to get his sternest examination yet. The 56-year-old becomes chair of South Africa’s third largest bank by assets on April 1, ta

THE SOUTH AFRICAN EV MARKET IS ON THE FAST lane. Audi launched its highly-anticipated electric e-tron range in Cape Town at the end of February, bringing six new additional models to the market. Mercedes-Benz is slated to bring in at least five EQ m

FRANCK LEYA’S FIRST TRAVEL EXPERIENCE BEGAN in the late 1990s as a refugee who had to flee the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) out of fear that his father, a political journalist, would be executed. “My passion for travel pretty much started

FOR AS LONG AS JACQUELINE SUOWARI CAN remember, she had wanted to become an artist. Born in Zaria in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Suowari developed a passion for art the moment she chanced upon a sculpture made by local artists in her neighborhood. Her onl

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, IT SEEMS, COMES naturally to Gwyneth Addo. It’s in her genes. Her father was one of the first entrepreneurs to start selling media and entertainment gadgets and used goods in Ghana. And Addo started early, watching and learning. Her

AT A FACTORY farm, about a 45-minute drive east of the Kigali city center in Rwanda, is a modern facility where the world’s most expensive edible nut – macadamia – is being laboriously processed. The delightfully round nuts dangle off dainty trees –

THE CORNER office is not just the prized preserve of the CEO. A new band of C-suite executives has emerged in the last two years of the pandemic with growing significance as any big company’s core arsenal to entrench ‘the new normal’. CIOs, CTOs and

ANY CHILD GROWING UP IN THE 90S — OR their parents, for that matter — will likely recall the scene from The Lion King where Timon and Pumbaa introduce a young Simba to their staple diet. “This looks like a good place to rustle up some grub,” says th

SEMICONDUCTORS POWER the modern world. They’re not only in every single device that we use on a daily basis, they’re a key part of data centers, factories, cars, household appliances, gaming consoles and aircraft. But now, there are simply not enough

THE ANONYMOUS, unregulated nature of cryptocurrency – which for many is a selling point – is also what makes crypto oh-so-popular with hackers. It is estimated that in 2021, crypto scammers stole around $14 billion in cryptocurrency worldwide. And it

CRYPTOAPES, CRYPTOKITTIES, Beeple – according to Collins Dictionary, NFT was the word of the year for 2021. The popularity of non-fungible tokens exploded during the course of last year, with celebrities such as Eminem and Melania Trump having jumped

“AFRICA FASHION MEANS THE past, the future and the present at the same time” is the apposite sentiment by Moroccan designer Artsi, fronting the publicity for a major new exhibition launching in July this year at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V

AN EARWORM IS DEFINED by the Oxford English Dictionary as “a catchy song or tune that runs continually through a person’s mind”. The song tends to crawl into one’s brain as easily as a worm would in some squishy earth and there it lies in wait for th

SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALLER FAGRIE LAKAY has long spoken about plying his trade outside of the country’s borders, but his move to top Egyptian Premier League side Pyramids FC is certainly a case of the road less traveled. He is just the fourth South Afr