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Personal finance: sustainable budgeting tips to stretch your money in 2025

Consumers should spend cautiously, despite the positive outlook for the year

Sochi Olympics kick off with a glitch before fairy tale show

How to not suck at New Year’s resolutions

You’re not alone … every year far too many of us find ourselves trapped in the same cycle of broken promises to ourselves

A million books? The Jacob Zuma Foundation’s Mzwanele Manyi hands copies of Jacob Zuma Speaks to a buyer. (Phill Magakoe/AFP)

Dare we cheer a happy new year?

Will 2022 will be any less harsh than 2021? Our correspondent certainly hopes so

The ANC has served uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) spokesperson Carl Niehaus with a notice to suspend him as an employee of the governing party over his public attack on party deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte.

Resolving New Year’s revolutions

To celebrate the year of 2020 Gus Silber imagined asking a cross-section of famous South Africans for their views on what the future holds.

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The New Year’s resolutions solution

To be resolute is to be unwavering and they waver (in the form of waivers), taking away our right to demand logic

Still standing: One viral internet sensation this year was the Mannequin Challenge

What’s the good news? Fake news and acts of kindness

Watch out for the potholes in the road ahead and never, ever spell-shame on Twitter.

A stampede during a New Year’s celebration on the Bund

Chaos and screams at Shanghai New Year stampede

At least 35 people were killed and 48 injured, according to city officials, during Shanghai’s New Year celebration at the Bund.

Happy New Year: Good riddance to a turbulent 2014

Revelers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the skyscrapers of Dubai and New York’s Times Square to say goodbye to 2014.

Ushering in 2014: Cities prepare to party

From Cape Town’s Grand Parade party to fireworks in Sydney and a long line-up of kwaito acts in Jo’burg, here’s how major cities plan to welcome 2014.

Hillbrow police prepare for the worst on New Year’s

Hillbrow police prepare for the worst on New Year’s

Fridges might fly and beds may fall from the sky as residents in Hillbrow see in the New Year by throwing broken furniture onto the streets below.