Talking Point
18.9.2017 08:35 am
Why it’s racist to think aliens built the pyramids
The African continent is full of amazing architectural achievement, but many find it impossible to believe Africans could have built them.
Some of the most impressive buildings and cities ever made by humans can be found in Africa: the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe, Mapungubwe in South Africa, Kenya’s Gedi Ruins and Meroe in Sudan. Perhaps the most awe-inspiring of these are the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
Why it’s racist to think aliens built the pyramids
The African continent is full of amazing architectural achievement, but many find it impossible to believe Africans could have built them.
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Cyril will probably be ANC president – but who says he’ll be SA president?
The recent ‘smear campaign’ may be a sign of desperation from a Zuma faction with no guarantee the ANC will win the 2019 election with a majority.
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SA needs to sober up to save itself from sickly state-owned enterprises
The government is said to be seriously considering selling its stake in telecommunication firm, Telkom, in order to save the troubled South African Airways (SAA).
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SA needs to get beyond the idea of just ‘redistributing wealth’
The poor are getting more numerous and poorer, and we need better policy ideas.
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Obsession with growth won’t help SA’s economic recovery
Finance minister Malusi Gigaba’s 14 point plan assessed.
Business
How SA business can help government fix the economy
What business is willing to say to itself is as important, as what it says to government.
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How smart meters can save water in drought ridden Cape Town
The water crisis in South Africa’s Western Cape is cause for grave concern.
Business
The lesser known and scarier facts about unemployment in SA
The latest South African jobs statistics continue to reflect a shockingly high unemployment rate which will take some doing to reverse.
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SA’s first online rhino horn auction ends in risky impasse
Private rhino horn owner John Hume recently held South Africa’s first online rhino horn auction, a major event in the ongoing fight by private rhino owners to be able to sell legal horn stocks.
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Women in power are complicit in SA’s gender-based violence
As SA marked Women’s Month, which celebrates the milestones and achievements of its women, a politically charged event involving gender-based violence made the headlines.
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The example of the US shows black economic empowerment doesn’t work
In the US, the most successful ethnic group are the Asians, and no one ever created a policy to help them out.
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What Barack Obama’s record-breaking Mandela tweet tells us about the world
Judging by the replies and comments, the tweet seems to have offered some respite to the rapid depletion in social morale in the US.
Fitness and health
The concept of schizophrenia is coming to an end – here’s why
The concept of schizophrenia is dying.
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Those who brought Zuma to power shouldn’t be forgotten, or forgiven
It is now a matter of record – rather than an issue for serious debate – that the presidency of Jacob Zuma has been an unmitigated disaster for South Africa.
South Africa
Is the rhino horn auction a good or bad thing?
Those in favour of it say it will reduce poaching, but they may be somewhat optimistic while the cash registers start to ring.
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SA’s labour movement has become middle class
The Cosatu of today would be almost unrecognisable to those it represented at the start of democracy.
Business
SA universities need to rethink how they invest their millions
Universities have the power to transform society not just through how they operate their campuses, but how they invest their endowments and pensions funds.
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Grace Mugabe: why diplomatic immunity isn’t always an ‘out of jail’ ticket
There is no basis in law for the spouse of a head of state to claim – as a right or entitlement – some form of immunity when visiting a foreign state.
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Why Mkhwebane is an ‘incompetent’ public protector
An expert weighs in on what the advocate got so badly wrong in her recommendations against the Reserve Bank.
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SA’s social media is giving consumers power to ‘discipline’ big business
Outsurance, Spur and Bell Pottinger – all have felt the wrath of Twitter’s little birds and Facebook’s slaps.
Fitness and health
How hunger affects the mental health of pregnant mothers
The mental health of pregnant women can be affected by a range of factors, including partner violence and unemployment.
Africa
Resilience has become a way of life in Sierra Leone, now mourning hundreds lost in mudslide
A nation ‘once again … gripped by grief’.
Lifestyle
New research says SA fathers do take care of their kids
Despite the country having a high rate of absent fathers, many choose to remain involved in meaningful ways in their children’s lives.
South Africa
The end of South African universities?
Former vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen argues that there is no future for South African universities.
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What Marikana teaches us about Zuma’s government
The police seemed to think they lived in a society where deadly force was the best option. That says a lot about government.
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