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Refiloe Molefe grows everything from spinach to green beans and carrots. She also makes juices and sells her produce. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Garden feeds hundreds in inner city Jo’burg

Hunger is widespread in SA and malnutrition affects children’s growth. Refiloe Molefe is doing her bit to change this with her food bank project

The Gupta brothers are the most recent additions to the 1?300-page United States blacklist. (Muntu Vilakazi/City Press/Gallo)

Who’s who on the US blacklist

The Mail & Guardian dug through the list of more than 7 000 entries on the US Office of Foreign Assets Control’s report

One can easily get carried away and reach 160km/h without noticing if one doesn’t monitor the speedometer in the Land Rover Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic Edition.

Landy’s Velar roars in plush luxury

Cruising at 160km/h while getting a hot stone massage. Really

Xeno-denial: Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi wants to review refugee regulations. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Migration system is ‘xenophobic’

Despite the home affairs minister stating otherwise, Africans who have fled to SA from horrific conflict are still living in fear

Implicated: Njock Ayuk Eyong has lodged a complaint against the M&G with the press ombudsman (Supplied)

The digital breadcrumbs behind the M&G’s censorship attack

From the US to Cameroon, from SA to South Sudan to Spain. Tracking down the people trying to take our site down took us all over the internet

​Data-driven safety plan aims for rapid violent crime prevention in the Western Cape

​Data-driven safety plan aims for rapid violent crime prevention in the Western Cape

Data collection, R1-billion in funding, behavioural change and investigators: This is how the Western Cape is trying to deal with violent crime

(John McCann/M&G)

Rape stats unreliable

South Africa has the highest rape numbers in the world

Migrants are blamed for causing South Africa’s problems, particularly by groups such as Operation Dudula, which acts in defiance of the Constitution and laws regarding education and health. Photo: AFP

Prejudice against immigrants cuts across class and race

Xenophobia, the study shows, is part of a broader problem of prejudice in South African society

The company focused its efforts on ANC delegates who would choose the next president, asking them to register for a newsletter and using their details to push CR17 content. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

How to win votes and influence people

A Netflix documentary The Great Hack detailed the connections between Cambridge Analytica, the US election of Donald Trump and Brexit

I was an ex-drug addict and ran an anti-drug company — it was not a great idea for me to be smoking weed. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Slice of life: ‘Cannabis calm saved me’

Today, I’m a weed activist. I’ve seen the injustice of really, really good people getting fucked by really bad laws

(John McCann/ M&G)

Jo’burg grants dodgy fleet tender

This is the second part of a series investigating how the city has been using loopholes in its procurement processes to award lucrative contracts

One and only: Jaco Peyper (centre) will be the only South African referee at the Rugby World Cup 2019.  (Steve Haag/Gallo Images and Dianne Manson/Getty Images)

Boots, balls & bluster: Blowing the whistle on rugby ref bias

Claims of favouritism stalk the game, but the data on penalties paints a picture at odds with righteous indignation