Crop farming in Lesotho has waned drastically, though household vegetable gardening continues unabated.
Two important questions should be confronted after 29 years of doing the same thing with similar results. ...
We have as a nation left the most complex to the most incapable.
The 1996 census of South Africa, held from October 10 to the 31st was a groundbreaking moment in the making of a new nation.
Data are observations, and statistics are processed observations.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has likened Covid-19 to what happens during wartime.
The relationship between citizens, security forces and the executive have a lot in common to that of dogs, cattle and the owner.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) has awakened the reality that the world can change more abruptly than could have ever been imagined.
The Western Cape has the highest proportion of its population in the country as overweight and recorded the highest proportion of people with high blood pressure. ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has said we are not going back to the pre-coronavirus state. It is for us to put on our social consciousness and define that future state. ...
The coronavirus pandemic has brought statistics, measurement, modelling, predictive analytics and planning as a science to the fore … writes Pali Lehohla.
As Shabalala departs the world of the living being, his timeless song Nomathemba and the hope that she will one day come back should keep us hopeful.
Pali Lehohla : Speech given at the Karabo Centre for maths, science and commerce in Vosloorus
I have focused on the consequences of failure to plan in SA and this week I want to elaborate on the history at planning in in the past 25 years.
The agenda for SDGs has brought this theory to the centre and elevates the twin properties of science and its spirit in obvious ways.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s announcement that pupils would now be able to leave school in Grade 9 has attracted criticism.
OPINION: Having now left the office as the statistician-general of South Africa, I continue to discover new things … writes Pali Lehohla.
OPINION: Economic growth was low and debt to gross domestic product ratio was very high. In fact, the South African government was bankrupt.
Disregard for human life suggests that our humanity has gone out with the bathwater writes Pali Lehohla.
It is hardly surprising therefore that the National Health Insurance (NHI) has elicited such a heated debate around the world writes Pali Lehohla.
Two weeks ago I visited Malawi. In my sojourn, I tried to connect the past, present and what could be the future, writes Pali Lehohla.
When the Public Protector’s report on the now-infamous R500 000 CR17 was leaked about a month ago, I penned a wish hoping that the claim was fake.
It is ironic that the birth of ID4Africa came to being around the same time, and it is not under the leadership structure of APAI-CRVS.
Where did we lose it as a nation? Why are we in constant starts and stops? Is our democracy noisy or are we exercising it badly?
OPINION: The hosting of the Global Citizen Concert will go down in history as a memorable programme of action in Madiba’s honour… writes Pali Lehohla.