Water polo: A cult or a sport?
Making it into the school water polo team is the kids’ latest status goal – but this applies to any sport (think rugby or football)
Poppy Day: When did we forget to remember?
The act of remembrance is the recognition of the futility of war and mourning the loss of men and women whose future ended too soon
War starts when intelligence fails
World history is littered with conflicts that might have been avoided if warnings had been acted on
Can ChatGTP be trusted? Just ask it …
With chatbots, it’s rubbish in, rubbish out, so be sceptical and substantiate
High time TikTok generation of student leaders step out of solipsism and into activism
In days gone by campuses were alive with opposition to societal and political injustice
OPINION| Social media: The new Star Chamber
People can be judged, found guilty and punished for posts they made years before and in a specific context
From order to chaos in a few seconds
The butterfly effect illuminates how even the slightest change in conditions can have massive ramifications down the line
The inefficiency of the Gini coefficient
To simplify complex inequality into a single statistic doesn’t address how to accurately assess (or reduce) South Africa’s large wealth divide
Balancing the books: Give the auditors some credit
This is an article in reponse to Khaya Sithole’s column on 14 November, The decline and fall of South Africa’s auditing profession