Design thinking: A powerful methodology for projects, but NOT thinking about design!
Why do simple and effective approaches to getting things done often become obscured by jargon? For example, way back in the last century when I worked at HP we experienced big changes in the business environment. Although layoffs are common at HP these days, back then everyone I knew believed...
Reproductive justice? Had I not had an abortion, pregnancy would have hijacked the future I’d worked hard
I am a palaeoecologist at the University of Maine and, like the nearly one in four people capable of becoming pregnant in their lifetime in the United States, I have an abortion story. Even with rates on the decline, it remains a common experience. I became pregnant in 2001 when...
From onset leading television channels were involved in a dogfight for Premier league broadcast rights
Initial bids came from four parties that were interested in the management and running of the newly-founded English Premier League – two of which came from groups that were considered to be non-starters, one of which hoped to set up a football-only pay-TV channel. ITV didn’t want to work with...
Down memory lane: How after showing commercial promise English football transited to Premier League
By the time the formation of the Premier League was announced on April 5, 1991, much had changed from the FA’s original lofty intentions. Of the suggestions in Alex Fynn’s report on how a new top division could segue with the interests of the game in a general sense, only...
South Africa loses 5,000 licensed firearms every year, now mass shootings have become too common
In just two days in early July, 25 people were shot dead in four separate incidents at taverns across South Africa. In one of these shootings, in Soweto, 16 people lost their lives. The killings made international headlines and were shocking even in South Africa, a society with one of...
After failing to capture Kyiv, Russia has shifted to devastating bombardments of cities in east, south Ukraine
Russian forces kept up their bombardment of cities across Ukraine, with intense shelling of Sumy in the north, cluster bombs targeting Mykolaiv and a missile strike in Odesa in the south, authorities said on Tuesday. After failing to capture the capital Kyiv at the outset of the invasion on February...
How Arsenal midfielder Zinchenko fled war in Ukraine, unpaid debts to standoff with Guardiola
Eight years after being forced to play football for free, Ukraine captain Oleksandr Zinchenko is set to become a £30 million footballer. The 25-year-old is poised to leave Manchester City for Arsenal, representing the next step in a journey which might have been over before it began. It’s testament to...
UN rapporteurs warn South Africa is on precipice of xenophobic violence, racism and hate speech
South Africa stands on the precipice of “explosive violence”, senior independent human rights experts warned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government as xenophobia, racism and hate speech are on the rise. A seeming lack of accountability against these offences aimed at migrants, refugees, asylum seekers as well as citizens perceived as outsiders...
US military strikes and kills two Al Shabaab fighters in Somalia southern Jubaland state
The US military said it had killed two fighters from the al Shabaab militant group in an airstrike in a remote part of Somalia’s southern Jubaland state on Sunday. The United States has been carrying out air strikes in Somalia to try to defeat al Shabaab, an al Qaeda franchise...
Senegalese President and AU Chair Macky Fall in South Sudan to give impetus to wobbly peace process
The Senegalese President Macky Sall arrived in South Sudan capital, Juba, on Monday to support the country’s peace process. President Sall, the current chairperson of the African Union (AU), was received by his South Sudan counterpart, Salva Kiir at the Juba International Airport. “I have come to support the peace...
