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Africa braces for high-stakes Davos meet
CORONAVIRUS

World Economic Forum ‘will defer’ Davos meeting over Omicron fears

The high-powered meeting scheduled for January 17-21 will instead be held in “early summer”, the organisers said.

  • Agence France Presse
1 min read
Together with a colleague, Nicholas Davis (above)coined the phrase ‘fourth industrial revolution’ a mere four years ago. One of his concerns about the 41R is the potential loss of a sense of individual agency. (Mattias Nutt/World Economic Forum)
4IR

What does ‘fourth industrial revolution’ even mean?

The M&G Data Desk aims to find out what 4IR really is

  • M&G Data Desk
9 min read
Graphic: John McCann
4IR

South Africa is caught in the global hype of the fourth industrial revolution

Even a cursory glance at earlier industrial revolutions will show that they have not been associated with the interests of the working or underclasses

  • Alison Gillwald 1
7 min read
Mosiuoa Lekota was remembered as a towering figure of South Africa’s liberation struggle
DAVOS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Long live globalisation

Though belief in globalism may be dead, globalisation is alive and well

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
Women must banish men to the margins
ANGELA MERKEL

Women must banish men to the margins, Tutu tells Davos

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has warned the world’s elite that it is time for women to seize control of the world and sort out the mess men have made.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read