Nicoli Nattrass considers some of the implications of the reaction to her commentary for the University of Cape Town as an institution of knowledge, learning and debate.The tumult over my two-page commentary in the South African Journal of Science (SAJS), reporting exploratory research into student subject choice at the University of Cape Town (UCT), has…
Was moving to Level 3 the right move for the country, according to the World Health Organisations guidelines for easing lockdown? Oliver Meth, a global fellow at Accountability Lab examines.South Africa is currently in alert Level 3 of the country’s five stage lockdown, with more easing of the hard lockdown set to possibly follow. But…
News24’s public editor George Claassen’s inbox has been flooded with complaints about a column published about why we should all know who George Floyd is and if we don’t we are part of the problem. He explains why it was acceptable to publish. Does the personal physical isolation brought about by the Covid-19 lockdown also…
People gather to demand justice for the killing of George Floyd in front of the US consulate in Hamburg, Germany. Stuart Franklin/Getty Images The prejudice in the DNA of too many white Americans is also embedded in the nation’s institutions and deep surgery will be required for real change to happen, writes Rev Prof Peter…
Past and present pupils from various Western Cape high schools have spoken out over this past week about incidents of discrimination and racism they have experienced. St Cyprian’s School head girl Malaika Ngwenya penned this open letter to parents, high school pupils and past students. It is published with both her permission and that of…
3 min read Over the past few years, a number of celebrities have publicly come out as pansexual,including Wayne Brady, Miley Cyrus, Panic! At The Disco frontman Brendan Urie, model and actress Cara Delevingne, pop star Kesha, and perhaps most famously singer Janelle Monáe, who eschewed all sexual labels in favor of describing herself as
TOPLINE: A Danish study found that replacing the conventional fluorine-18 sodium fluoride (18F-NaF) PET/CT ("NaF" scan for short) with fluorine-18 prostate-specific membrane antigen-1007 (18F-PSMA) PET/CT ("PSMA" scan for short) for the staging of high-risk prostate cancer resulted in significant metastatic stage migration and the alteration of treatment plans in a significant number of patients, thereby
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