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Get your quarantine on — the best in virtual entertainment

With everyone settling into an indoors routine or starting to lose it because of cabin fever, this guide should remind you that creativity and beauty still exist, virtually…

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Motshekga: We look to 2018 matriculants to solve problems

The pupils have been tasked to work towards the fourth industrial revolution

Bonolo Tlhoaele (Delwyn Verasamy)

Slice of life: The journey to Beyoncé

‘I wasn’t going to miss an opportunity to see Beyoncé and Jay Z in South Africa’

Mugged: A great time was had by all at the Global Citizen Festival — until they left the stadium. Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty

The people versus the captured police

While the police figure is visible, they are not exactly accountable to the citizens.

Beyonce and Jay-Z perform ‘Young Forever’ at the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100

Global Citizen: Preaching the good news according to Madiba

The festival is aimed at addressing social ills Sunday’s concert had the makings of a charismatic church crusade

‘Let us build this social compact of shared responsibility and a new society founded on the principles of justice, dignity and equality,’ writes President Ramaphosa (David Harrison/M&G)

Proper sanitation in schools is a human right

In the public-school system, more than 11 000 schools have been provided with flush toilets since 1994

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) denies that there was anything exceptional about January’s payment run. But many people have complained to #PayTheGrants and Black Sash.

Letters to the Editor: July 27 to August 2

Our readers write in about Global Citizen and the Dutch Reformed Church

Nelson Chamisa, the leader of Zimbabwe’s Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) talks to Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga at the funeral of Morgan Tsvangirai in Buhera, Zimbabwe February 20 2018. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

Global Citizen: Global force or global farce?

Co-founder of Global Citizen, Hugh Evans says he believes that if people get into the spirit of altruism it eventually becomes habit-forming.