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At Teremana’s South African launch, additive-free tequila, oak-barrel ageing and slow sipping transformed an ordinary tasting into an education in craft and flavour

Teremana’s South African launch turns tequila tasting into a lesson in patience

At Teremana’s South African launch, additive-free tequila, oak-barrel ageing and slow sipping transformed an ordinary tasting into an education in craft and flavour

Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos. (SAFA)

Can Hugo Broos fix Bafana Bafana’s broken compass before the World Cup?

The “funeral” in the Rabat dressing room after the team’s Africa Cup of Nations defeat must serve as the birth of a stronger Bafana

First couple: Maduro faces a narco-terrorism conspiracy charge. He and his wife were both charged with cocaine importation conspiracy and weapons offenses. Photo: Screen grab WRAL

The Caracas Rupture bleeds world order

This is not diplomacy; it is an eviction notice served by Delta Force

The rest of us: Gen Zs in Kenya, Indonesia, Peru, Mexico and beyond are rising to show that they will not be silent while their futures are stolen.
Photo: wetheninetynine

The billionaire house of cards

The 99% are done waiting. Billionaire fortunes hit a record high and the G20’s effort on inequality has been deleted

Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Springsteen crosses over into Mexico

In an America awash with leering cruelty, Inyo, a beautiful record by an extraordinary musician, is finally heard after two decades in the vault

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

Violence against journalists can’t be normalised

This year, Donald Trump’s antipathy to the media has manifested into a more focused, deliberate assault on press freedom and procedures

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s Panama gambit spurs controversy

But his statements feel like a distraction, a manufactured spectacle to deflect attention from America’s real crises

The maize imports are limited and exports to various destinations in the world continue. Photo: File

SA’s agricultural export growth cools slightly in second quarter of 2024

Despite this drop, trade figures remain encouraging, but various departments need to address policy and other issues to boost exports

A view of the exhibition You to Me, Me to You at A4 Arts Foundation in Cape Town.

The art of cultural crosscurrents

Artists and exhibitions show the connections between Mexico and South Africa

The United States had offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to Ovidio Guzman’s capture, accusing him of being a key player in the Sinaloa cartel. (Photo by Silvana Flores/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Mexico arrests son of notorious drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’

The United States had offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to Ovidio Guzman’s capture, accusing him of being a key player in the Sinaloa cartel

Players of Argentina lift in the air their captain Lionel Messi after winning the final of Copa America Brazil 2021 between Brazil and Argentina at Maracana Stadium on July 10, 2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images)

2022 Fifa World Cup: What’s the deal in group C?

Argentina, one of the tournament’s favourites, have been dealt a kind draw, but they cannot allow their 2018 dressing room politics to resurface

Pink tide: Supporters of left-wing Chilean president Gabriel Boric celebrate after the results of the runoff presidential election in Santiago in 2021. (Mauro Pimentel/AFP)

A new current of hope surges across Latin America

Seven right-wing governments have been defeated, while Brazil is set to join the wave of liberation next month

Take your pick: Fresh Harvest farm in Greenfield, California, is one of the largest employers of foreigners working on temporary agricultural worker – or H-2A – visas in the US. Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

Soil and trials: South Africans embroiled in US farm worker visa debate

The Mississippi court case is unique; usually the grievances are against Mexicans accused of taking work from Americans

Complex transition: A man fishes across from the Wujing coal power station in Shanghai, China and electrical workers in a boat check solar panels at a photovoltaic power station built in a fishpond in Haian, China. Mzukisi Qobo writes that China calibrates its pragmatic use of coal with increasing investments in renewable energy rather than basing its future decisions purely on idealism. Photos: Johannes Eisele/AFP & AFP

South Africa must approach its energy transition pragmatically

A sensible climate policy must balance the imperative of decarbonisation, socioeconomic policy and security of supply considerations

MEXICO – 2021/01/21: People wearing face masks wait in a line to refill their oxygen tanks.
The country faces a shortage of oxygen tanks and a fourfold rise in prices as cases of Covid-19 increase.
People line up to buy oxygen for their relatives infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to help them breath during the illness. (Photo by Guillermo Diaz/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Oxygen companies put profit over patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

Companies falsely claimed that onsite oxygen plants could kill patients

Sugar high: NGO Heala is lobbying for the sugar tax to be increased from 11% to 20%. (Mujahid Safodien/AFP)

Health experts call for a 20% hike in sugar tax

The levy has generated R5.4-billion in revenue since its inception two years ago, and an increase will help the fight against Covid-19

Ethiopia’s government has set up its own ‘fact-checking’ unit. But governments cannot independently fact-check themselves. (Tiksa Negeri/Reuters)

A glimpse into the future of government propaganda

The Ethiopian government has created its own ‘fact-checking’ unit — and it is not the only government to do so.

Argentina player Diego Maradona (c) takes on the Belguim defence during the 1982 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and Belgium at the Nou Camp stadium on June 13, 1982 in Barcelona, Spain.  (Photo by Steve Powell/Allsport/Getty Images)

Football legend Maradona dies

The Argentinian icon died at his home on Wednesday, two weeks after having surgery on a blood clot in his brain

The country’s social fibre is under strain and one cannot help but feel that something will have to give. (David Harrison/M&G)

Rich vigilantes have no fear of consequences

The City of Cape Town tacitly condones it when wealthy landowners behave illegally, something that is not the case if you’re poor

During the 1990 Fifa World Cup quarter-final between Cameroon and Argentina, François Omam-Biyik jumps to head the ball while Argentine defenders look on. (Wikicommons public domain)

Why Cameroon has slid back since Italia ’90

The Indomitable Lions’ class of 1990 put Africa on the international football map with their showing in Italy, where they stunned the world champions. But they have since gone…