What director could bottle Roald Dahl’s silly genius better than Wes Anderson. His new short film on Netflix is quirky, formulaic and charming as ever.
By Tevya Turok Shapiro
Skills shortages plague the SAPS, 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield has a murky past, and NASA has brought back the largest-ever asteroid sample – all in the Weekend Wrap.
SAPS skills shortages run so deep that none of its specialist divisions – from forensics to the flying squad, 10111 call centres and detectives – are fully staffed, according to a parliamentary reply. But in the SAPS 2022/23 annual report, there’s little evidence of this.
By Marianne Merten
In August 2017, Brian Wainstein, a globally connected steroid smuggler, was assassinated in Cape Town. Journalist Caryn Dolley’s book ‘Clash of the Cartels’ details suspected links between that case and local figures, among them recently arrested 28s gang boss-accused Ralph Stanfield.
By Caryn Dolley
The 79-year-old cable ship sank a week ago in Simon’s Town Harbour. This is what the wreck holds below the surface.
By Caryn Dolley
The 79-year-old cable ship sank a week ago in Simon’s Town Harbour. This is what the wreck holds below the surface.
By Julia Evans
In a new book, former vice-chancellor Max Price argues his case over the Fallist saga.
By Rebecca Davis
Will Elon Musk give a fig that he helps further fray South African democracy? Probably not. On his acquisition of Twitter, Musk notoriously slashed resources and staff directed at content moderation and collapsed its Trust and Safety Council. Twitter’s only Africa office was shuttered.
By Nicole Fritz
What director could bottle Roald Dahl’s silly genius better than Wes Anderson. His new short film on Netflix is quirky, formulaic and charming as ever.
By Tevya Turok Shapiro
What director could bottle Roald Dahl’s silly genius better than Wes Anderson. His new short film on Netflix is quirky, formulaic and charming as ever.
By Tevya Turok Shapiro
Republican legislators in the US are fighting a civil war within their own party, holding the government budget and essential aid to Ukraine hostage to this struggle. It cannot be allowed to stand.
By J Brooks Spector
Republican legislators in the US are fighting a civil war within their own party, holding the government budget and essential aid to Ukraine hostage to this struggle. It cannot be allowed to stand.
By J Brooks Spector
Janet Simpkins’s personal mission to protect her family and the watersports she loved quickly morphed into a campaign that included a broader concern for the environment and communities that relied on the water for their livelihoods.
By Thom Pierce
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered pieces of asteroid Bennu, which scientists hope will offer a window into the early era of the Solar System billions of years ago.
By Eleanor K. Sansom and Nick Timms
Reliable and cost-effective digital connectivity is imperative in ensuring South Africans remain fastened to essential services, economic opportunities and global networks — a system collapse must be averted.
By Nomvuyiso Batyi
Dr Lovanomenjanahary (Lova) Marline hopes to intensify her studies on a unique and primitive group of plants while monitoring three major threats facing humanity and the global environment – air pollution, climate change and the biological diversity crisis.
By Tony Carnie
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