The Weekend Wrap
Ferial Haffajee analysis on provincial politics; Biden’s unravelling campaign; how ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour.
The ANC steps away from power-sharing in the province where it lost most decisively in the recent general election.
By Ferial Haffajee
The ANC steps away from power-sharing in the province where it lost most decisively in the recent general election.
By Ferial Haffajee
The presidential election on 5 November might be the birth of a new authoritarian United States.
By Phillip van Niekerk
Just how unpleasant a poisoned chalice has the DA’s Siviwe Gwarube – now the new Minister of Basic Education – been handed?
By Tim Cohen
Rassie Erasmus and Andy Farrell are two of the best coaches in the world and the July series between the Springboks and Ireland will give one of them bragging rights.
By Jon Cardinelli
Without conservation action, the Botha’s Lark, South Africa’s most threatened terrestrial bird species, faces extinction as early as 2025.
By Kristin Engel
As the country moves forward under a government of national unity, all eyes will be on progress across various fronts, none more so than the future of state-owned enterprises.
By Neesa Moodley
In the context of emigration, virtual rituals play a pivotal role in dealing with the unknown. In fact, these virtual gatherings are lifelines.
By Sulette Ferreira
As we find ourselves in unprecedented political times, Common Ground, the title and theme of the HEAT Winter Arts Festival, has never been this necessary since the advent of our democracy.
By Voni Baloyi
The ‘multimodal’ GTP-4o works with text, sound, images and video, all wrapped in a chatty interactive ‘personality’.
By Marcel Scharth
Achieving truly inclusive and integrated neighbourhoods requires state support and careful intervention in the housing market.
By Andreas Scheba and Ivan Turok
In which the Noun Formerly Known as a Waffle becomes a verb, and we shuffle off into a new world where waffles are savoury (but can still be sweet) and rice is used as the main ingredient in one.
By Tony Jackman
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