Author: Ewang Johnson

By Dr Ali Hamdulay, CEO, Metropolitan Health Corporate In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, ensuring accessible and equitable healthcare for public sector employees remains a critical priority, particularly for lower-income individuals and those outside the formal employment sector. Public private partnerships continue to be an essential part of the journey towards universal access to healthcare, and it is essential to promoting the well-being of all South Africans and supporting those who deliver vital services to the public. Navigating complex public healthcare systems can be challenging, especially for public sector employees in high-stress roles like law enforcement and emergency services. Despite available support,…

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying an international team of four astronauts docked on Saturday with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) just 15 hours after it launched.  Source link

How a fashion frenzy is gripping auction houses – and sending prices sky high Source link

Paycorp, the global payments group with deep roots in South Africa, has announced a strategic investment in Currency Stream, a UK-based fintech specialising in real-time foreign exchange and multi-currency payment solutions.This partnership will accelerate Currency Stream’s growth in Europe and unlock new expansion opportunities across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Paycorp will bring capital, global reach and over two decades of payments expertise to support Currency Stream’s ambitions.The investment builds on a strong working relationship spanning more than seven years, with Paycorp having successfully deployed Currency Stream’s Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) technology in Central and Eastern Europe and Southern Africa…

While neither Trump nor anyone in his administration has, as yet, publicly condemned Sherald’s painting or its representation of a black transgender woman, the organisers of her scheduled exhibition, which was due to open on 19 September, had reason to fear imminent repercussions to its funding should the work go on display. In March, barely two months into his second term, Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, which is aimed at curtailing financial support to museums and projects that, in its words, “degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote…

by Phindile Mpithi (Academic at Regent Business School)What if business schools were judged not by the salaries their graduates earn, but by the lives they help transform? In this provocative piece, Phindile Mpithi, a Regent Business School Academic challenges the status quo of business education in South Africa. He argues that true academic excellence must go beyond prestige and profit to drive inclusive growth, support underserved communities, and reshape the national economy. It’s a call to rethink what success really means and who gets to achieve it in a country still wrestling with deep economic divides, and ask how can business schools become drivers…

Lego’s The Lord of the Rings: The Shire set contains 2,017 pieces.On what I can only assume was piece #302, somewhere between placing fireworks in the back of Gandalf’s cart and assembling a tiny hobbit hearth, I burst into tears.This isn’t an uncommon response for fans of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or J.R.R. Tolkien’s works in general: Reddit posts are devoted to tear-inducing moments in the books, and fans congregate online and in person to celebrate the most cathartic, iconic scenes in the films.Returning to the books and movies and games that marked us in our younger…

Innovative theatre auteur Bob Wilson died Thursday in New York after a short illness, his management said. His productions were hugely popular wherever they were shown, but he was best known in France, where he directed the inaugural show of the Opéra Bastille in 1989. Source link

NAIROBI, Kenya, 31 July 2025-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) today announced a series of bold initiatives to elevate Africa’s role in global carbon markets and ensure they deliver both climate and development benefits for the continent.The announcements were made at a high-level continental dialogue convened in collaboration with the Government of Kenya and Afreximbank. The consultation opened with statements from H.E. Dr. Deborah Mlongo Barasa, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Republic of Kenya; Ambassador Ali Mohamed, Kenya’s Special Climate Envoy; Neil Wigan OBE, British High Commissioner to Kenya; and Estherine Fotabong, Director of Programme Innovation and Planning…

But, perhaps most remarkably of all, Ray of Light helped to usher underground dance sounds into the musical mainstream. Mostly co-produced by Madonna and Orbit, with contributions from the singer’s longtime collaborator Patrick Leonard and another forward-thinking British record producer, Marius de Vries, it minted a distinctive, sonically stunning mix of electronica, trip-hop, techno, ambient and new-age music. Writer and editor Alex Frank, who reviewed Ray of Light for online magazine Pitchfork in 2017, says this blend would have sounded especially fresh to US listeners who bought the album when it first came out. Source link