Protect yourself from financially abusive relationships with these three strategies

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Women are more likely to experience financial abuse since it can happen in tandem with other forms of abuse.

Robo-advisors - the pros and cons of using AI in investing

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Portfolios built by robo-advisers may also be more resilient during market downturns, effectively managing risk and protecting investments.

The rise of African prophets

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The unchecked power of the leaders of Pentecostal churches

SA higher education needs to be more realistic in addressing the funding crisis

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The higher education system lacks the understanding of needs, resources, challenges and vision in order to solve the ongoing funding crisis.

How to help your child with maths

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The Covid-19 pandemic has left a change in the education system, one that demands parents’ involvement in their child’s schoolwork. Here are tips to help you teach ...

Opinion What makes our construction industry dangerous?

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In South Africa, the construction industry accounts for around 8% of total formal employment and around 17% of total informal employment.

Streaming ahead of the movie pack

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If anyone won the Oscars this year it was Netflix - the reward for its industry disruption

Time of empty promises is over for ANC

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Launching the ANC’s 2019 general election manifesto, President Cyril Ramaphosa lauded the successes of the last 25 years of democracy.

Do cats and dogs understand us when we miaow or bark?

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Curious Kids is a series for children in which we ask experts to answer questions from kids.

Union's decline impacts ANC support base

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Cosatu regularly insists that its support for the ANC is conditional on the governing party adopting union-friendly policies

Is love at first sight just an illusion?

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Shakespeare shows how love at first sight can be as true as any love

US universities make case for diversity - and amends

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Backlash to Trump move to scrap race as admission factor

How contracts drawn up as comic strips are being put to use in South Africa

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Comic Contracts are visually dominant contracts “written” in pictures.

Vegan diet: how your body changes from day one

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Research suggests that veganism can have health benefits, if well-planned.

Changing South Africa's Constitution

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Several steps have to be taken before supreme law of the land is amended

Keto diet will bear fruits if you stick to it

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The diet got its name because ketones are the source of energy that the body uses when it’s burning fat.

#LunarEclipse2018: What's the big deal?

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The Conversation unpacks the importance of the longest full lunar eclipse this century, what can be learnt, and what you will see.

Poll shows opposition have closed gap on Zanu-PF

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With victory, they say, donors and dollars will flood into the country they have resurrected from nearly two moribund decades and Zimbabwe will thrive.

NHI the right treatment for SA

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The introduction of universal healthcare should mend the glaring disparities between SA’s private and public health systems

World Cup: all the ways footballers and fans can be hacked

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The 2018 World Cup presents a number of opportunities for criminals.

Study looks for links between fracking and earthquakes in SA

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Areas with highest vulnerability for seismicity linked to fracking were in parts of Western Cape, Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.

Principles must underpin SABC

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We need new legislation that better protects the independence of the broadcaster, says Kate Skinner

New labelling legislation sparks debate about full disclosure of GM foods

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THE fast-approaching July 1 deadline for Vermont’s new labelling law – and a new federal proposal that would set a national system for disclosure – for genetically ...

Preserving our heritage in a hostile world

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In March 2001, the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, two of the tallest Buddha sculptures in the world.