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Easter long weekend — from braais to short trips and chocolate heists.
EASTER

How to survive Easter

From braais to short trips and chocolate heists, here’s how to survive and savour Easter Week the South African way

  • Lesego Chepape
5 min read
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy
BARBARA CREECY

Vehicle accidents down but pedestrian deaths on the rise, says Creecy

Civilians on foot caught up in road accidents present a new challenge for the department of transport

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
3 min read
BEACON

The Chocolate Café returns to Sandton this Easter 

Young and old can get creative with chocolate in Sandton City from 20 March to 1 April 2024

  • Sandton City
3 min read
Alcohol has been a central topic of discussion during the national lockdown.
ALCOHOL

Alexandra’s black market for booze under lockdown

Underground liquor has a long history in South Africa. Its next chapter is being written under the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown

  • Dennis Webster
9 min read
High-risk areas are concentrated in townships and informal settlements, including Khayelitsha, Crossroads, Philippi and Gugulethu.
CITY OF CAPE TOWN

Khayelitsha residents ‘evicted twice’ during lockdown

Cape Town Metro dismisses criticism that it illegally evicted people from a Khayelitsha settlement during the Covid-19 lockdown, arguing it was only demolishing unoccupied shacks

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
It may be that the most important lesson this pandemic has to teach us is that we don’t control nearly as many things as we like to think we do.
CHRISTMAS

Quiet contemplation this Easter

From church services over WhatsApp to eating with family and listening to chilled music over Instagram, South Africa is going to have a very different long weekend, grounded in…

  • Mail Guardian Online Reporter
8 min read