A Presidency overhaul, a fictitious investigative reporter and what you need to know about solar water heating – read it all in the Weekend Wrap.
The Joburg West suburb has been in the grip of drug barons and gangsters for years. After violence in the last weekend of February killed two and injured 11, Police Minister Beke Cele swept in for a crime prevention imbizo, revealing a four-point plan aimed at dealing with gangsterism in the area. Locals won’t be holding their breath.
By Shaun Smillie
The Joburg West suburb has been in the grip of drug barons and gangsters for years. Police Minister Beke Cele swept in with a four-point plan aimed at dealing with gangsterism in the area. Locals won’t be holding their breath.
By Shaun Smillie
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reconstituted his Presidency with a new minister in the Presidency and two new deputies, a new electricity minister in the Presidency and the return to a full minister in the Presidency for performance monitoring and evaluation.
By Marianne Merten
A six-month undercover probe has unmasked a crusading investigative reporter, Anita Pettit, as a completely fictitious persona created by a shadowy Israeli private intelligence company, to smear opponents and subvert elections.
By Amanda Sperber and Justin Arenstein
A six-month undercover probe has unmasked a crusading investigative reporter, Anita Pettit, as a completely fictitious persona created by a shadowy Israeli private intelligence company, to smear opponents and subvert elections.
By Amanda Sperber and Justin Arenstein
The uncustomarily modest dimensions of this chef frame a massive talent, yet the humble Richard Carstens took time out of his schedule to take on the challenge to produce a skaapstertjie dish worthy of a top menu. He did it with aplomb – and in three different ways.
By Tony Jackman
The uncustomarily modest dimensions of this chef frame a massive talent, yet the humble Richard Carstens took time out of his schedule to take on the challenge to produce a skaapstertjie dish worthy of a top menu. He did it with aplomb – and in three different ways.
By Tony Jackman
A southern elephant seal known for his annual return trips to Cape Town has once again made the Mother City’s beaches his summer holiday home. But he is not the only Antarctic wanderer soaking up the sun along South Africa’s coastline.
By Jamie Venter
Organising or tidying your home or workspace is a way of creating order in chaos and helps ward off extra stress. And the good news is you can start by ensuring you accomplish small tasks.
By Florence de Vries
A southern elephant seal known for his annual return trips to Cape Town has once again made the Mother City’s beaches his summer holiday home. But he is not the only Antarctic wanderer soaking up the sun along South Africa’s coastline.
By Jamie Venter
Whether you’re looking to protect your household’s hot water supply from the effects of load shedding and power outages, or simply looking for ways to cut down on your electricity bill, solar water heating might be the right option for you.
By Malibongwe Tyilo
Putting patients’ health and lives at risk and terrifying people working on the front lines of our crisis-ridden public healthcare system is not only utterly disgusting, it is also a betrayal of everything that the union movement has stood for in South Africa and around the world.
By Imraan Buccus
The manufacturing site in South Africa is touted to be a new building block in our industrialisation strategy that includes the plan to sell one million vehicles in the region by 2030.
By Georgina Crouth
Organising or tidying your home or workspace is a way of creating order in chaos and helps ward off extra stress. And the good news is you can start by ensuring you accomplish small tasks.
By Florence de Vries
Born in the rural area of Zimbabwe to a poor family that would later lose its primary breadwinner, cyclist and bicycle mechanic Pressmore Musundi (28) has never had it easy. His story is one of determination and gusto.
By Yanga Sibembe
On our 5pm trip down Jan Smuts Avenue, we were deep into Stage 5 load shedding, rain was falling, Johannesburg’s intolerance measure was off the charts and minibus taxis were practising their specially mandated protocol of driving lane-free, wherever they want, at high speed.
By Jeremy Maggs
Fearless comedian Diane Morgan presents a five-part series on human history as the deadpan Philomena Cunk, who gets away with asking experts mirthfully shocking and subversive questions under the guise of a total lack of intellect.
By Tevya Turok Shapiro
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