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Chris Roper is deputy CEO at Code for Africa, a director of the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting and a former editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian Online.
Elon Musk’s seven-minute voyage into AI hell
South Africa's political circus gets the comedy treatment
US ad campaign to market a fictional genocide to Afrikaners
When cruelty becomes a campaign strategy
The Bahrain Grand Prix, proudly made in Malaysia ...
Elon Musk’s Mars and CapeXit are both bait-and-switch schemes
Airbnb challenges another small business
The UN has voted to phase out the Mercator projection in favour of an accurate world map, restoring Africa's true geographical scale
Journalism, but make it live …
Modern propaganda has moved from physical leaflet drops to covert digital influence campaigns
AI grows despite resentment. We must be prepared
News organisations deserve scrutiny, but so do those exploiting journalistic mistakes.
There’s a disturbing arithmetic to profiteering amid catastrophe. The $93bn that oil companies have made off the Iran war is testament to this
It may seem like a trivial matter, but do the people who declare 'I stand with Iran' on their Facebook profiles mean that they support the mullahs and those in the Tehran regime…
Though The Economist describes Musk as a genius, it’s hard to square that with the fuzziness of his logic when interviewed about his beliefs.
From the legalised murder of San people in colonial South Africa to the rumoured 'Sarajevo safaris' of the Bosnian War, people have performed the mental contortion of placing…
Over-optimism, as in the case of rebuilding parliament, seems to be in the DNA of politicians — or perhaps they're just willing to promise anything in the hope of winning votes.…
It says a lot about his presidency that no-one was surprised when Trump hosted a UFC tournament at the White House to mark his 80th birthday. For many people around the world,…
Bills criminalising homosexuality and the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities are becoming more common in Africa. We can be proud of the fact that South Africa is an outlier in this…
A Reuters survey indicates that up to two in five people don't want to 'read all about it' because it will ruin their mood. They are also increasingly ditching the legacy media…
