Our relationships with wildlife are dynamic. They can change rapidly and unexpectedly. In South Africa, these changes are visible in tourists searching kelp forests in Cape Town for octopuses and communities contesting baboon management in suburbs. Similar changes are playing out worldwide as people and wildlife increasingly share space and as wildlife communities, human practices,…
‘Comedyhacker’ Tobias Schroedel used AI to clone MC Clement Manyathela during his Security Summit keynote. Creating deepfakes and accessing stolen data on the dark net is surprisingly easy, delegates learned at the ITWeb Security Summit, when keynote speaker Tobias Schroedel took them on a guided tour through the dark net. The IT security expert known…
Soft skills development is often undervalued and overlooked. (Image: iSpring) Soft skills training helps employees collaborate and communicate more effectively in the workplace. Any organisation can increase its chances of success by ensuring that its team members have the right abilities, and soft skills play a crucial role. What is soft skills training? Soft skills…
Medicinal plants and their varied uses span from ancient medicine to modern cosmetics and pharmaceuticals amid a surging demand for more. Ahead of World Wildlife Day, marked annually on 3 March, we’re delving into why medicinal plants matter. Plants are critical for ecosystems to economies, said Danna J. Leaman, the outgoing co-chair of the Medicinal…
At the 2025 global climate summit, COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, one decision stood out with major consequences for Africa: countries agreed on a new set of progress indicators. The “Belém Adaptation Indicators” were developed through a two-year UN process. Although the name may sound technical, the idea is straightforward. For the first time, countries…
Museums and universities around the world hold vast collections of cultural artefacts, artworks, objectified belongings and even ancestral remains. Many were not freely given but taken during colonial times, through force, manipulation, theft or violence. For decades, they have sat in storerooms and display cases, classified into categories like anthropology, natural history or ethnology, separated…
‘No woman with a disability should be coerced into sharing her food or cash with a male community member because custom dictates she cannot manage her own resources’ Every year, across hunger hotspots, the World Food Programme (WFP) consistently identifies people with disabilities as among the most food-insecure and nutritionally deficient. For WFP to do…
When Salma* was just 15, she was forced to get married, even though she wanted to stay in school and become a doctor someday. Instead, she found herself tied to a man who “changed from being kind to being a monster.” He would beat her “with his bare hands,” she said recently. The young mother…
Glimmers are more than a gimmick – they are a way to navigate the daily grind, and to find slices of joy in the mundane. I went out for dinner recently with two old friends. We used to spend hours getting ready together and go out dancing and debate the merits of the boys on…
Deon Koegelenberg, CEO of Agile Bridge. In 2025, enterprise leaders are under pressure to deliver transformation at scale while navigating geopolitical uncertainty, mercurial markets and the disruptive influence of AI. Budgets are tightening, talent remains scarce and while headlines promise technology breakthroughs, the success is rarely found in the latest trend. Within this complexity, however,…
