The Weekend Wrap
Cape Town’s rental problem, SA’s summer forecast and how to master your December budget.
Want to get tempers rising fast in Cape Town these days? Bring up the topic of digital nomads.
By Rebecca Davis
Want to get tempers rising fast in Cape Town these days? Bring up the topic of digital nomads.
By Rebecca Davis
What’s in store for us for the next five months weatherwise? Hot days, rain later in the summer (hopefully) and a tentative and weak La Niña are on the horizon.
By Abigail Baard and Julia Evans
In an era when many people are turning a blind eye to the human horrors of a genocide, are complicit in ecocide and normalising the abnormal every day, there’s clearly something going badly wrong with human compassion and solidarity. To rediscover our connections with one another, we need also to rediscover our connections to the earth.
By Mark Heywood
For families whose children are fighting severe medical conditions, cancer and broken bones, the past 12 months have pushed them close to ruin. You can help us help them.
By Estelle Ellis
Escaping the load shedding crisis created the strategic focus needed to implement solutions that have achieved the goal in a relatively short space of time. But did we need to wait for a crisis before we were galvanised into action?
By Mark Swilling
There was significant growth in important sectors of women’s sport in 2024, and more gains are forecast in 2025.
By Reuters
In an era when many people are turning a blind eye to the human horrors of a genocide, are complicit in ecocide and normalising the abnormal every day, there’s clearly something going badly wrong with human compassion and solidarity. To rediscover our connections with one another, we need also to rediscover our connections to the earth.
By Mark Heywood
More than 80% of municipal dumps across the country appear to be flouting environmental laws and regulations. The Green Scorpions have opened more than 50 criminal cases, but it hasn’t led to an increase in compliance.
By Tony Carnie
As the festive season approaches and South Africans prepare to splurge on booze and chicken, financial experts urge a clever strategy: ditch the impulse buys and embrace a budget that stretches beyond the New Year, because nothing says holiday cheer like surviving January without a financial hangover.
By Lisakanya Venna
While I stayed away from stores and malls on Black Friday, the origin of the term provides an opportunity to unravel fact from fiction and look at the way myths emerge.
By J. Brooks Spector
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