Three key questions seem largely to have been ignored in the current debate over healthcare reform. What are the main problems with our current free

Setting a dangerous precedent, the WHO has declared that traditional medicine ‘should be considered alongside other scientific forms of knowledge’. The World Health Organisation, the

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 9th September 1915 – First World War: The first tank prototype, developed

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me,’ is a crucially important lesson that all parents and educators must continue

Downtown Johannesburg is fast becoming a new type of hell where criminal gangs run buildings and disasters strike. Within two months this year, one of

The release of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has raised entirely baseless fears. The three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi

Speaking on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit after a meeting with Brazilian president Lula da Silva, Minister Gwede Mantashe appealed to South Africans to

The commitment of many leading media organisations and universities, locally and internationally, to objectively scrutinise events has been corrupted by pervasive ‘knowledge provocateurs’. The assertion

The latest people to be betrayed by Cyril Ramaphosa are the people of Zimbabwe. After yet another blatantly crooked election there, so crooked in fact