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Sinners strikes a chord
Both genre-bending and soul-baring, film proves that originality still has a pulse - and it sings
3 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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THE COURAGEOUS CURIOSITY TO EMBRACE THE HIDDEN GIFT OF CHAOS
We live in a time of extraordinary complexity. Technological acceleration, global uncertainty, climate change, social unrest, economic volatility; all swirling in a dizzying dance of disruption. And it doesn’t stop there. Leaders today are not only navigating external crises; they're also wrestling with internal noise: decision fatigue, burnout, self-doubt, imposter syndrome and the heavy weight of expectation.
2 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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It's rocking in Joburg's Rosebank
Located just north of Johannesburg’s downtown, Rosebank is a lively suburb that mixes business, leisure and residential charm.
5 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
Push for phone-free schools
Concerned parents have called on Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube to develop a national policy to restrict smartphone access in schools so learners can focus on their work and develop socially without the distraction and influence of social media and games.
3 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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How to humanise a robot
The robots could fix the street robots, replace the raggedly traffic controllers and fill in the potholes
3 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
The best car on a budget
We normally get to pricing at the end of a review but, since we are talking about budget, it is important to explain why the new Suzuki Swift is really the best economy option in South Africa at the moment.
2 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Safety comes at a price
The words “premium” and “luxury” are thrown around far too often about vehicles nowadays.
4 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
Rebuilding hope amid the landmines
Anti-personnel landmines have maimed millions of people around the word.
4 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Soundscapes of the soul
Modise Sekgothe channels grief and grace into poetry that heals, transforms and redefines performance in South Africa
5 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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VAT battle is over but GNU crisis is not
Meetings are due to undo the damage after the finance minister caved on the tax increase
6 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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From frenemies to family feuds
When old rivalries resurface, a new generation challenges the past in this story
5 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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'Tech giants must publish reliable news'
Reporters Without Borders said a provisional report by the Competition Commission 'clearly recognises journalism's value in the content circulating on online platforms'
3 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Reform laws to boost Pandemic Treaty
Business interests and intellectual property laws privilege the wealthy and leave the rest scrabbling for life-saving medicine
5 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Power lines, turbines fatal for vultures
Data shows that 191 vultures were killed in five years - and that is probably an underestimate
5 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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The excellence of the Range Rover Sport
The words “premium” and “luxury” are thrown around far too often about vehicles nowadays.
4 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
Curating histories and futures
Earlier this year, the Mail & Guardian carried a story saying that the neglect of the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) reflected widespread public and media sentiment that it, once a cultural jewel, had become an embarrassing symbol of institutional failure amid a flourishing creative economy.
5 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
Song breathes like the sea
Jabulile Majola is not just a musician — he is a storyteller who treats music like a life-long friend.
3 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
Sterkfontein Caves reopened after safety upgrades
After a two-year closure over safety concerns and for conservation efforts, the Sterkfontein Caves — one of South Africa’s most celebrated paleoanthropological sites — have reopened to the public, the University of the Witwatersrand recently announced.
2 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Standout jazz treat in store for Buffalo City
In celebration of International Jazz Day, the Umtiza Arts Festival presents a musical event featuring Andile Yenana and the Buffalo City Big Band.
1 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
Claims of fishy school food tender
A group of disgruntled service providers linked to the national school nutrition programme in Gauteng has taken legal action against the provincial department of education to halt the appointment of new contractors, claiming irregularities and corruption in the tender process.
3 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Whose land, whose power?
Deep in the Eastern Cape, the Wesley-Ciskei Wind Farm offers a unique lens into the complexities of South Africa’s just energy transition and its intersection with land ownership.
4 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Looking back in black and white to see more clearly
Photo albums are a portal to another time — in which we might not even have been alive — and they allow us to find out more about people and spaces.
3 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
Budget bungle can't be repeated
Abruptly, in the quiet of midnight, the VAT increase succumbed to its fate. It was an understated death for a beast that has stolen so much South African attention over the past two months.
2 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Has Rupert blown the whistle?
What happens to a grand idea when its visionary steps away?
3 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
Mail & Guardian
South Africa seeks to have punitive US tariffs dropped
South Africa will push to have US President Donald Trump's 30% tariff — which has been stayed for 90 days — permanently dropped “dramatically” or to the baseline 10% implemented on the country’s major competitors for agricultural exports.
2 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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End of a radical papacy born in the South
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 1936, died on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025, aged 88.
5 min |
M&G 25 April 2025
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Public schools shifting from Christian
For decades, education in public schools was controlled by Christian National Education (CNE) — an apartheid-era ideology that placed Christianity at the centre of learning.
3 min |
April 17, 2025
Mail & Guardian
God lives in public hospitals
Even in the chaos of these health centres, divinity moves through ordinary people doing extraordinary work
4 min |
April 17, 2025
Mail & Guardian
Secularism, the bridge to harmony and democracy
Some provinces call their members of executive councils ministers, and I can truly say that this is the second time that I have held the title, although the previous time, I was on a pulpit, not a podium.
3 min |
April 17, 2025
Mail & Guardian
Dumpsite to sanctuary: The sacred mountain of Mamelodi restored
Before Ephraim Cebisa Mabenaembarked on his mission, the area had become an illegal dumpsite, a cesspool of murder and rape, a chop-shop for stolen cars and a hideaway for drug abusers
8 min |