Winter 2007

Lost in translation

Travel has become more and more dangerous.

A shifting world

Among writers, there are many ways to change the world.

Getting a second life

Second Life, a digital world with millions of users, has sparked interest amongst internet watchers because of its networking potential.

Getting

Patrick Burnett

Summer escape

Choosing where to go on holiday is always something of a minefield – not least because the conscious traveller in South Africa is repeatedly reminded of how unchecked, unsustainable tourism development is threatening eco-systems and traditional ways of life.

Summer

Fiona Mcintosh

Extracting entrepreneurship

The wealth of informal business activity trading on South Africa’s streets is overlooked by researchers who have no means of measuring it, with the result that we may have more entrepreneurial spirit than we give ourselves credit for.

Extracting

Steve Kretzmann

The return of the elephant in the room

If climate change was an elephant in the living room, ignored by resident humans but growing in girth, then the time has come for a plan.

THE

Stefan Raubenheimer

Ancestors of innovation

Appreciating the inherent innovation of organisms formed on earth billions of years ago could hold the key to our engagement with climate change.

Ancestors

Nicola Robins

Whistleblowers: your country needs you

Organisations – and society at large – need to appreciate the value of those with the courage to blow the whistle on corruption.

Whistleblowers

Richard Calland

Left? what left?

Although Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is often held up as a paragon of left leadership by fans in South Africa, South Africa actually spends more on social services than its South American counterpart.

Left

Max Du Preez

The African Diaspora - Show me the money

The phenomenon of Africans returning from the Diaspora is not new, but those taking the step are a trickle compared to the gush needed to fuel Africa’s recovery.

THE

Leslie Rance

Environmental degradation never looked this good

As Japan’s growth is forcing the population into the exquisite mountainous inland regions, photographer Toshio Shibata reveals the tension between natural beauty and human expansion.

Environmental

William Frater

Walking with Geometric tortoises

Bartholomeus Klip Farm House and Wild Olive House on Elandsberg Farm is situated on 10,000 acres of fynbos Bartholomeus Klip is just outside Wellington in the Western Cape (about a one hour drive from Cape Town International Airport).

Walking