The former Congolese vice-president, Jean-Pierre Bemba, has been found guilty in the first trial at the international criminal court to focus on the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. The 53-year-old warlord commanded a militia that committed mass murder, rape and pillage in the neighbouring Central African Republic, the court ruled at…
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There was a nickname some of the boys in my primary school had for me, growing up in Laudium, Pretoria. Blackie. They weren’t white kids, but rather South African Indians; confined as we were by the stringent categorising of apartheid, even in its dying days. Tears pricked my eyes aged 11 when the worst of…
Millennials will make up half of the global workforce by 2050. Although generalisations are not helpful, broadly speaking members of this generation, born between 1980 and 1994 and also known as Generation Y, are bound together by the fact they have come of age during a severe financial crisis, have been both the pioneers and…