What has the plight of the rhinoceros got to do with Jean Baudrillard, you may well ask. The famous French philosopher, who died in 2007, is possibly best known for coming up with an idea so bizarre, it makes you wonder what he was smoking besides Ga...
"Why are you hoarding all these books," the millenial asked us, and he wasn't the first to question our attachment to hard copy reference material.
I overheard Nightshift playing on the radio and I turned it up. It's one of my favourites, and I used to play it a lot. It triggered memories of my own experience of working nightshift.
A bicycle is a human-powered vehicle consisting primarily of a frame, two wheels, pedals, a chain, gears, handlebars and brakes.
It is 2035. I am 28, and in the past decade I've lived through a sea change that seems far from over. It has largely been driven by the development of AI.
Five years had passed since the coup that reshaped the Republic. What had begun in secrecy and peril had, through persistence and reform, become a functioning and remarkably stable new order.
By the fifth year after the coup, the Council turned its attention to a sector long neglected, yet essential to any sovereign nation: defence.
By 2031, as the housing and agricultural sectors surged forward, the Council turned its attention to another pillar of national recovery: healthcare.
The Second Address to the Nation, delivered on 15 December 2026, was the most widely watched broadcast in South Africa's modern history.
The the close of 2027, a year after the September Intervention, the effects of the Council's reforms had begun to reshape South African society in visible and measurable ways. While challenges persisted, there was a growing sense that the machine...
By the second year of the Council's stewardship, it had become evident that South Africa's future depended not merely on political stability or economic revival, but on the quality of its education system.
By the third anniversary of the September Revolution, the Council's achievements in restoring governance, stabilising the economy, and revitalising eduction had begun to bear fruit. Yet, as Harvey Jacobs repeatedly emphasised, "a nation cann...
