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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
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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
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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
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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 |
April 17, 2025
Mail & Guardian
Power & prayer: The place of faith in the lives of our politicians
Every Easter, there is reason to reflect on the dissonance between a message of salvation and the wars and rights abuses marring the world.
5 min |
April 17, 2025
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New track has it all rapped up
Nomfundo Moh stuns fans with bold rap bars on her genre-blending single Ndizamshini, featuring Blaq Diamond, revealing a fearless new layer to her artistry
2 min |
April 17, 2025
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EFF pushes its alternative budget
The party has proposed a R512.8bn revenue strategy and refuses to agree to a VAT increase
5 min |
April 17, 2025
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Soul-searching among the bones
Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’
5 min |
April 17, 2025
Mail & Guardian
Play the diplomacy game properly
The furore over the appointment of Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to the United States has forced us to confront the reality of the situation with which we are confronted.
1 min |
April 17, 2025
Mail & Guardian
Muneyi's magical moment
Muneyi, a poetic voice from Limpopo, blends folk and tradition into something urgent, modern and, finally, something celebrated
4 min |
April 17, 2025
Mail & Guardian
Union demands pension fund for domestic workers
The Progressive Domestic Workers Union of South Africa (Prodwusa) wants the treasury to develop a pension fund for domestic workers so they can retire with a measure of financial security.
3 min |
April 17, 2025
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Pricey path to become a demon slayer
When politics resembles possession, some have suggested that the Vatican should offer group rates for exorcising elected officials
3 min |
April 17, 2025
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Why the runner's high is the smug hill on which I'll die
We runners, like good churchgoers, are a community, we follow rituals, we try to convert everyone and, best of all, we finally enter the zone
4 min |
April 17, 2025
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Where is God amid suffering?
Political and economic instability, climate crisis, war, social division. These fracture our world and cause terrible suffering.
4 min |
April 17, 2025
Mail & Guardian
Publisher rocks the boat
Jacana's new imprint — Rock the Boat — is based on a crowdfunding model in which authors and publishers share responsibility for the publication of South African memoir and biography.
5 min |
April 17, 2025
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Finding my faith after all these years
One writer's journey through activism and grief led him back to the altar — on his own terms
3 min |
April 17, 2025
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Rewriting the SA cinema script
Movie theatres are empty but South African stories are abundant — what’s the disconnect?
5 min |
April 17, 2025
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Author shares his life through an ethnic lens
When I was a young man, I was given a priceless gift by someone - a lens through which I could understand my own interactions with the world.
4 min |
April 17, 2025
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Youth vaping becoming a crisis
Scientists warn of a health disaster as high numbers of schoolchildren and university students turn to vaping, despite the dangers
6 min |
April 17, 2025
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Trump's China tariffs will hurt SA
South Africa will have to look for alternative markets for its products, including the car manufacturing, minerals and agriculture sectors
4 min |
April 17, 2025
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Austerity: How stoicism masks class power
The asceticism of the elite presents inequality as virtue, while the poor endure real deprivation
4 min |
April 17, 2025
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Fab mommy show puts the real into reality TV
Mommy Club is back on Showmax with a fresh new season and an even fresher set of faces.
2 min |
April 17, 2025
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Discover transformative power of prayer and spirit of ubuntu
In these times, what does it mean to be human? It is the ability to pray that fundamentally distinguishes human beings from animals.
3 min |
April 17, 2025
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Making a meal of religion
Is reconciliation via food hard to swallow? Perhaps we should emulate John Lennon and give peas a chance
4 min |
April 17, 2025
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ANC is just using us, says EFF
The party ‘only wants to hold discussions with the Red Berets during times of political crisis’
4 min |