Unravelling the enigma: The perils of prediction and the elusive science of foretelling the future
Unraveling the mystery of opinion polling: Challenges, failures, and the art of predicting the unpredictable.
Unraveling the mystery of opinion polling: Challenges, failures, and the art of predicting the unpredictable.
Rarely has one so humble, so softly spoken, imprinted her persona so powerfully on a nation as Advocate Thulisile Madonsela has on South Africa.
Azar Jammine of Econometrix warns that the SA political situation remains extremely fluid with the potential to cause enormous damage.
“The reason for me to eat the unknown guy’s heart was to show him that I am not a moffie [gay] and after I finished eating the heart, I realised he was dead.” — Prosecutor Quawnita Geyer reading from a statement by Andrew Chimboza in his bail application in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court. He is … Read more
Evil exists. There are truly evil people among us. The narcissists who believe they know better and will enforce their will on the rest of us, irrespective of the cost. But for the most part, humanity has more good people than bad. Except in a few isolated examples, this weight of numbers prevails. So why … Read more
I met Barry Sergeant exactly three decades back. A young LLB graduate, he came for a job interview with my boss, the late David Carte, at the Sunday Times Business Times. Over the years I’ve sat in on hundreds of such interviews. That one I remember. Because when we asked Barry why journalism rather than … Read more