If you’re reading this, the words on your screen have already travelled from a data centre halfway across the world through thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic or undersea cables, in just a fraction of a second. Whether you’re streaming a movie, using cloud storage or chatting with AI, your data is being stored, processed and […]

The rise of the fast fashion industry in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has had enormous social, economic and environmental consequences. It is a huge industry built on over-production, overconsumption, and the excessive use of natural resources to the detriment of the environment; and it engages in exploitative labour practices in rampant pursuit […]

In modern democratic governments, the second most powerful person after the president is often the finance minister. Proving the point, Minister Enoch Godongwana has, over the last few weeks, demonstrated that he is no pushover in exercising his authority over the national fiscus. His decision to withhold equitable share payments to 69 municipalities drew widespread […]