Articles for Marcus Low
Here’s what the models predict about Covid-19
But beware: soothsaying has a checkered history
By Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen
Analysis | 22 May 2020
Covid-19: What do South Africa’s numbers mean?
We explain confirmed cases, death rates and more
By Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen
Science | 8 April 2020
Parliament can help blind people access books
Only the publishing industry stands in the way
By Marcus Low
Opinion | 2 August 2017
Don’t fall for “illegal” protest nonsense
Government Twitter account is wrong on the law
By John Stephens and Marcus Low
Opinion | 5 April 2017
“No credibility as a researcher” - a letter to News24
A former Media24 journalist criticises the country's biggest online news publication for publishing AIDS denialism
By Marcus Low
Opinion | 11 March 2016
Ten things you probably don’t know about HIV in 2016
The HIV world is used to things moving fast, in a way that most medicine just doesn’t.
By Francois Venter, Polly Clayden, Anele Yawa and Marcus Low
Explainer | 22 February 2016
Time to demand equal rights for blind people
Being blind or visually impaired means many things in life are simply much more difficult than what they are for other people. Some of these things we can do something about, others we can’t. There are two fundamentally different ways for society and governments to respond to this unpleasant reality. The one option is pity and non-integration - the other is to forget about pity and to take practical steps to make things as equal as possible so that blind people can integrate into society.
Marcus Low
Opinion | 18 November 2015
Will gold miners get justice?
In King Leopold’s Ghost, the historian Adam Hochschild uncovers the horrors committed in the Belgian Congo in the years before and after 1900. It is a history of slavery, murder and mutilation – anyone who’s seen the pictures of piles of cut-off hands cannot but be horrified by it.
Marcus Low
Opinion | 9 October 2015
Copyright bill will empower blind people
Just over two years after the books for the blind treaty was signed in Marrakesh, Morocco, South Africa has finally taken steps toward ratifying the treaty.
Marcus Low
Analysis | 26 August 2015