Technically, South Korea is a country at war. The war with the north between 1950 and 1953 ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. More than 50 years on, conflict symbols are still part of daily life.

As we celebrate Human Rights Day today – December 10 – let us remember that human rights are an expression of our God-given rights, which are now universally recognised. Our rights can only gain social status when they become moral values and are maintained as a necessary quality of human relationships.

Among the major challenges facing our societies today are the high incidence rates of violence within the family, the increase in degrading and cruel treatment of spouses and children, and the spread of sexual abuse.

“I am a detribalised South African,” said a good friend without a hint of the enormous significance of these words.

There are two sides to the lobola debate. Some say it must be abolished because the tradition has lost everything it is meant to stand for. There is a feeling that this tradition is now about greed and not relationships between families, as was the original intention.

Mathematics seems to be a hydra-headed demon feared by students worldwide.

Rape contributes to climate change and environmental degradation.

In an article on abortion published in the Public Eye edition of June 11, 2010, I stated the following about the magnitude of, and how unsafe abortion impacts on the lives of women, more so in sub-Saharan Africa.

2010 is a milestone year for Africa. The World Cup was hosted on African soil for the first time. Seventeen African countries marked their 50th year of independence. We marked 10 years of pursuing the Millennium Development Goals. These events present a great opportunity to take stock of the continent; where we are and where we are going to.

… Many people are aware of the financial difficulties facing the National University of Lesotho (NUL). What many people do not know is that NUL is facing another quite insidious problem: the university is lacking even the basics of what can be described as academic culture. This view is based on certain behaviours unique to this [...]