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Well intended: Shoppers outside a retail store in Wellington, New Zealand. The country’s wellbeing budget has been lauded, but if its economy does not grow it could face problems. (David Gray/Reuters)
AIR POLLUTION

GDP still best indicator of wellbeing

New Zealand now has an alternative measure that’s less about money than people, but it may be missing the mark

  • Bjorn Lomborg 1
5 min read
Former acting National Prosecuting Authority director Mokotedi Mpshe.
BARACK OBAMA

Obama to echo Robert Kennedy’s “ripple of hope” at UCT

On Sunday evening Barack Obama will speak at UCT, where the slain America icon laid down a stark challenge to opponents of apartheid.

  • Justine Gerardy
3 min read
DONALD GIPS

Kennedy speaks to us all today

In 1966, Robert F Kennedy came to South Africa, a country that reflected the divisions, inequities and injustice of his own country, the USA.

  • Donald Gips
5 min read
BARACK OBAMA

Barack Obama’s truth and lies

Had he not been assassinated 40 years ago this week, Robert Kennedy would have been elected president of the United States. Kennedy’s campaign is a model for Barack Obama.

  • John Pilger
6 min read
BARACK OBAMA

Clinton draws rebuke over assassination remark

Hillary Clinton mentioned the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in explaining on Friday why she had resisted calls to end her White House bid, drawing a rebuke from…

  • Thomas Ferraro
3 min read
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY

US Senator Kennedy has malignant brain tumour

Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, the brother of assassinated president John F Kennedy and the elder statesman of American liberal politics, has a malignant brain tumour, his…

  • Maggie Fox
4 min read