Opinion: Mugabe - the visionary turned monster

Kanthan Pillay|Published

Under his leadership, Zimbabwe became heaven for some, hell for others

Opinion - Given Eskom’s current form, let’s switch to a solar/battery option

Kanthan Pillay|Published

Let me make a controversial suggestion: it’s time for drastic action around Eskom - and that requires writing off its debt.

Men's underwear reveals a lot about the state of the economy

Kanthan Pillay|Published

When finances get tight, one still has to replace a shirt with a hole in it, but tattered underwear can be worn for longer, writes Kanthan Pillay.

Proposed NHI an unmitigated disaster waiting to happen

Kanthan Pillay|Published

It allows the government, which failed to meet basic targets of improving health, to create a monopoly

India reaches for the stars

Kanthan Pillay|Published

This month, 50 years after Apollo 11, India launched Chandrayaan 2 - a spacecraft heading for the moon, where it will deploy a lunar lander to the moon’s south pole, ...

Live long in our memory

Kanthan Pillay|Published

An ode to Spock and Star Trek: the show that boldly took us into the (present) future.