A veteran South African journalist with a background in comedy is staging a unique new show of ‘performance journalism’
Indalo Yethu, South Africa’s environmental campaign in collaboration with the department of environmental affairs, has developed an eco-towns.
Many charge that the ID is more of a one-person lobby group than an opposition party, but De Lille counters that it has grown both in membership terms
"What mobilised people for Zuma was the way he was fired as deputy president. People think it was done because he’s a Zulu".
The European and American tradition of the political novel is deeply entrenched. From Emile Zola to Gore Vidal, the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in these smug old…
In a surprise move Independent Democrats (ID) caucus leader Simon Grindrod this week came out in support of Cape Town mayor Helen Zille "as an individual" and as a city mayor…
Pinelands, a Cape Town suburb built in the 1920s to emulate a British rural idyll, has become the city’s most racially mixed neighbourhood. If you’re really lucky you might…
A month after speaking out on the proliferation of luxury housing and golfing estates in the province, Western Cape agriculture minister Cobus Dowry, seems to have done an…
If it weren’t so ominous, we’d all still be laughing at Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Johnny de Lange’s claim that granting same-sex couples the right…
South Africans may never get to hear what happened to the millions in misappropriated shares and stolen money redistributed by slain magnate Brett Kebble to a wide network of…
Ordinary South Africans with knowledge of and access to technology are increasingly doing the police’s detective work and helping to solve crimes. Take the case of Sylvie and…
The attractive three-storey flats, with their landscaped gardens and paved walkways, stand empty almost two months after completion. They stand in stark relief against thousands…
After the SABC banned an Afrikaans loveLife advert in 2002 because it featured Pieter-Dirk Uys using the word <i>naai</i> (fuck), an unexpected visitor turned up in the West…
It took two weeks for the news of the brutal murder of a young Khayelitsha lesbian, Zoliswa Nkonyana, to filter from the streets to the media. The original police investigation…
