From Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show reign, to the recipes you loved in 2022 – it’s anything but politics in this week’s Weekend Wrap.
What do the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Hollywood and a mysterious Russian ship being loaded in Simon’s Town have in common? Sometimes, as the old saying goes, life imitates art, or, at least in our current world, the movies.
By J Brooks Spector
What do the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Hollywood and a mysterious Russian ship being loaded in Simon’s Town have in common?
By J Brooks Spector
For decades, state officials, tourists, scientists and fisheries have noisily pushed into a sound-sensitive, ice-bound wilderness where some of Earth’s most endangered and iconic animals seek refuge. As the world’s polar vessels descend on the Southern Ocean for yet another summer of scientific research, fishing and sightseeing, Antarctica’s protected species may again have to pay the ultimate price.
By Tiara Walters
For decades, state officials, tourists, scientists and fisheries have noisily pushed into a sound-sensitive, ice-bound wilderness where some of Earth’s most endangered and iconic animals seek refuge. As the world’s polar vessels descend on the Southern Ocean for yet another summer of scientific research, fishing and sightseeing, Antarctica’s protected species may again have to pay the ultimate price.
By Tiara Walters
Noah’s youthful optimism was a chuckling breath of fresh air. That’s not to say he didn’t get rightfully angry with the infuriating issues of the day, but his magic is the ability to get real without depressing an audience.
By Tevya Turok Shapiro
For the first time – and after several decades of trying – scientists have managed to get more energy out of the process than they had to put in.
By Carolyn Kuranz
For the first time – and after several decades of trying – scientists have managed to get more energy out of the process than they had to put in.
By Carolyn Kuranz
Pre-tournament favourites Argentina stumbled at the first World Cup hurdle before getting their act together to storm into another final, led by their inspirational skipper Lionel Messi who has moved to the top of the tournament’s scoring charts.
By Rohith Nair
Cannabis in South Africa, a natural green industrial economy commodity with massive job-creation opportunities, remains a grassroots struggle with little or no funding or political support.
By Nicholas Heinamann
For the first time since 2020, South Africans can ‘probably’ relax about Covid-19, unless a new variant emerges, South Africa’s leading experts agree.
By Estelle Ellis
It’s plain to see: you like tradition, you appreciate recipes that any of us can cook, and you can’t get enough of our Throwback Thursday recipes.
By Tony Jackman
I am more worried now about the future of South Africa than I have been at any time in the 31 years since returning from exile. This is despite the fact that I expected the corruption, nepotism and widespread incompetence that would afflict the post-apartheid ship of state.
By Terry Bell
The latest exhibition at the Zeitz MOCAA largely consists of paintings from the previous 100 years by black artists working globally, brought together into dialogue with each other and ‘leading Black thinkers, writers and poets who are active today’.
By Jean-Marie Uys
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