By Naseerah Nanabhai 07/11/2019   In the past few decades, eating alone has become common. Food stores have encouraged this. With single seating arrangements and many other considerations that facilitate the solo experience. But eating alone can have negative effects.  Factors that contribute to the increased amount of solo eating includes work and time constraints. A lower value and emphasis that people have placed on the idea of home-cooked...

  By Mumtaz Moosa Saley 07/11/2019 Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner has stated that thousands of Rohingya, currently living in the border refugee camps, have agreed to move to the island despite the fear of the island flooding during the monsoon period. Around 800 000 Rohingya had fled Myanmar in August 2017, joining 200,000 refugees already in makeshift tents in Cox Bazar. For a very long time, the Government wanted to move a small portion of...

    By Naseerah Nanabhai 31/10/2019 On Thursday the 24th of October, news broke of an apparent hacking of City of Jo'burg systems. A cybercrime syndicate called Shadow Kill hackers is believed to be behind the hack. They issued a notice that the City of Joburg had until Monday, 28 October, at 17:00, to pay a ransom fee of four Bitcoin tokens (about R500 000). Agencies like this often use cryptocurrencies in order to make it extremely difficult to trace...

  By Mumtaz Moosa Saley 30/10/2019 Kurds make up about 7% of Syria's population. Before the uprising, the Kurds lived in the main cities of Syria. While they have been denied basic human rights in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria the Kurds have been denied basic citizenship and are currently without land. In many countries Kurds were not allowed to speak in their mother tongue nor are they able to wear traditional clothing, yet human rights groups...

    By Naseerah Nanabhai 28/10/2019 A protest is often defined as an action expressing disapproval of or objection to something. Protests by people are often provoked by conditions such as discrimination, poverty, high unemployment, poor schools, poor healthcare, housing inadequacy and police brutality and bias. Presently, we see several ongoing protests in Hong Kong, Spain, Lebanon and Chile. In Hong Kong, dissenters are against proposals to allow...