The Weekend Wrap
Stilfontein must not be another Marikana. How home affairs glitched someone stateless and non-existent. And the tale of the tea thief.
Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s representatives neither know nor care that the Buffelsfontein mine was built on the sweat of migrant workers, many from neighbouring countries.
By Ferial Haffajee
The DA-governed City of Cape Town and the Democratic Alliance itself need to be held to the standards of accountability they set for others.
By Rebecca Davis
The Weekend Wrap
Stilfontein must not be another Marikana. How home affairs glitched someone stateless and non-existent. And the tale of the tea thief.
Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s representatives neither know nor care that the Buffelsfontein mine was built on the sweat of migrant workers, many from neighbouring countries.
By Ferial Haffajee
The DA-governed City of Cape Town and the Democratic Alliance itself need to be held to the standards of accountability they set for others.
By Rebecca Davis
An ‘informant,’ who went by the name of Queeny Madikizela Malema has been murdered. Her past includes suspicions of rogue state activity, a claim that Jacob Zuma once freed her from jail, and involvement in apparent smear campaigns tied to Western Cape policing and politics.
By Caryn Dolley
A routine visit to the Department of Home Affairs to apply for a new identity document turned into an Orwellian apparent loss of statehood for the writer.
By Yves Vanderhaeghen
Los Angeles’ cataclysm was seemingly foretold by the hundreds of disaster films cranked out by Hollywood — save that this one is the real deal. But instead of politicians uniting to support the city’s citizens, they are blaming one another for how the disaster has been dealt with.
By J Brooks Spector
A routine visit to the Department of Home Affairs to apply for a new identity document turned into an Orwellian apparent loss of statehood for the writer.
By Yves Vanderhaeghen
At Walmer High School, a no-fee township school in Gqeberha, very few of the more than 2,000 learners wanted to do pure maths until a new teacher, Songezo Mtati, who was only 26 years old, came to class — with a plan. As matric results were released on Monday, 13 January 2025, he wrote on social media: ‘Finally I managed to get 100% in MATHEMATICS. I’ve been fighting for this. Thanks to you all, Class of 2024.’
By Estelle Ellis
As the Class of 2024 patiently awaits the official release of the matric results, the nation’s top achievers joined Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube and Deputy Minister Dr Reginah Mhaule at the MTN Innovation Centre in Johannesburg for a celebratory breakfast for the top 39 matriculants.
By Lerato Mutsila
Jurgen Klopp has described his new role as ‘Dr Football’ with Red Bull, although it’s unclear what cures he will administer.
By Craig Ray
Breathwork is an ancient practice to calm the mind and improve physical health.
By Christiane Brems
To celebrate Julienne du Toit and Chris Marais’s two decades-plus in the lovely, crazy, challenging Karoo, let’s meet some of the posse of creative, mostly positive, mostly eccentric characters.
By Chris Marais
It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot disguised as a mandarin. His aim was to reach the black tea hills in the fabled Wuyi Mountains of China and steal tea.
By Don Pinnock
It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot disguised as a mandarin. His aim was to reach the black tea hills in the fabled Wuyi Mountains of China and steal tea.
By Don Pinnock
It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot disguised as a mandarin. His aim was to reach the black tea hills in the fabled Wuyi Mountains of China and steal tea.
By Don Pinnock
I write for real people, ordinary people, people who need a bit of help in getting by. Here are my 26 tips (one for each letter of the alphabet) for getting by on a minuscule budget – and even on no budget at all. Yes, even J, K, Q, X, Y and Z…
By Tony Jackman
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