Without partnerships between business, government, academics and civil society, the international accord reached at December's climate negotiations in Paris will ...
An anthropologist could provide a more robust definition, but I think of my culture as the sum of what I believe, the technologies I use and what I do.
Environmental historian Dr Farieda Khan wrote in the Weekend Argus of February 6 about how connected the residents of District Six were with the mountain.
When I first moved to Cape Town, I was in high school. And, in the teenaged anxiety of arriving at a new place, the thing that determined how I felt about the city ...
What fascinates me about the debate over the short-lived “Zuma Must Fall” billboard at the top of Long Street is not the message, but the significance attached to ...
Robert believes in conventions and the honour of keeping one’s word.
In this space on December 29, David Lipschitz wrote about what he sees as the City’s deliberate neglect of Cape Town’s car drivers.
When Sting sang, “I hope the Russians love their children too”, he was singing about the human drive for preservation during the Cold War in the 1980s.
This year’s COP gathering begins today in Paris and I’m feeling inclined to continue avoiding daily reports about it.
What is the Big Challenge for the city's transport system? Is it congestion? Safety? Affordability? More bicycles? Fewer cars? It’s all of these, and none of them. ...
Waking up on Saturday morning to news of another round of bomb blasts, ...
If someone asked you what you'd like to eat with your tea, you wouldn't say “flour, salt, sugar, butter, eggs and strawberries”, but “toast and jam, please”.
If you think last week’s student protests constitute a crisis, you’re looking at the wrong thing.
In a radio interview four weeks ago, the chief executive of Toyota SA said that while Japan was a democracy and had a free-market economy, the Japanese have a fairly ...
The BBC Micro was a computer launched at the beginning of the 1980s as part of the British public broadcaster's Computer Literacy Programme.
Greater diversity is an objective in many areas of life because it adds to the richness of experience, makes people feel wanted and gives them the opportunity to ...
It’s the end of the day on a Friday and I’m soaking in the vibe on Greenmarket Square.
For a government agency, introducing a direct fee on something we have always had for free – or paid for indirectly – is never popular.
A community, at its most basic, is a group of people who share something they value.
Great design invites us to try new things by making us aware of “playful zones” or by making it clear what kinds of things are permitted – or not.
“Words are things. You must be careful. Careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. ...
We are told by scientists working in climate-related fields that our individual lifestyle choices need to be aligned with responsible stewardship of Earth’s resources, ...
E-tolls – any tolls, really – are a clumsy version of what will eventually become a bigger part of our lives, and this is already starting to happen around us.
Muizenberg beachfront is one of those rare places in Cape Town that attracts people of all ages and backgrounds from across the city.