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Joya Mooi – Exclusive WATC Side A – 4 (by Ines Vansteenkiste-Muylle)

Joya Mooi explores social change in new album

South African Dutch singer Joya Mooi’s latest album, ‘What’s Around the Corner’, offers thought-provoking themes

South African sand sculptor Sithembiso Buthelezi gives the final touches showing a message calling for peace between Ukraine and Russia on the North beach in Durban, on February 27, 2022. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia-Ukraine: Discretion is the better part of valour for South Africa

The Russian invasion has sparked debate in South Africa, with many misguidedly concluding that Moscow is a natural ally of the country. This is not rooted in contemporary…

Haulage truck trailers and pallets near the Heineken NV brewery in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands. Photographer: Peter Boer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Heineken buying Distell will allow for its diversification in the wake of waning beer sales

Heineken set to brew up local market

People in South Africa do not need to travel to Europe to have a dignified death, but more needs to be done to make that possible in hospitals, in hospices and at home. (Getty Images)

Why I do not support active euthanasia

In a country where spirituality and faith play such an important role, the rational argument will not convince

While their fans claim they are victims of a knee-jerk fear of anything new

Pretty polly or pests? Dutch in a flap over parakeets

Love ’em or hate ’em, thousands of rose-ringed parakeets, close relatives of parrots, have made their home in the Netherlands

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Ghosts of the night watch

‘Most puzzlingly, there’s a woman in the middle of the painting — a “mascot”, says Wikipedia demeaningly’

Fan focus: Proteas captain AB de Villiers at the sendoff in Joburg before the team left for the World Cup.

All-time football great Johan Cruyff dies at age 68

The Dutch football star brought the game to the world stage for his home country, and has been described as one of the greatest players ever known.