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Loving memory: Maria McCloy was someone who made
Johannesburg feel possible. Someone who gathered people across
class, art, music, fashion and politics and convinced them that
beauty, style and radical care belonged together.

Maria McCloy made Johannesburg feel possible

Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.

Having become one of the country’s greats, Hasim Amla announced his retirement from the Proteas on August 8 2019. (Isuru Sameera Peiris/Gallo Images)
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From the archives: The meaning of Hashim Amla 

Before he earned legend status, Proteas’ legendary batsman had to endure being reduced to an ‘outsider’

A sticky wicket:

Protea implosion – What do SA’s cricketing men live by?

The past year has been CSA’s annus horribilis

Poor treatment: Captain Faf du Plessis and wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock both returned from playing in the IPL final and went straight to a Proteas training camp. (Saeed Khan/AFP)

Why Proteas bombed out of the World Cup

The CSA board buckled to BCCI and IPL pressure instead of backing its players and management

Food, and its fusion into new communities, has always reinforced the dynamic nature of society and the idea that civilisation’s greatest achievements have emerged from movement. (AFP)

Delhi: The city where food breaks down divisions

Delhi’s food — from the street fare to fine dining — stirs together what the ruling party seeks to divide: people across class, religion and caste

A curator, artist, intellectual, critic and mentor always looking to create space for black artists in South Africa’s white art world, David Koloane was a towering, critical figure.

David Koloane’s art is a love letter to Jo’burg

Two art exhibitions reveal the intimate relationship between one of South Africa’s great modernists and the city of his life

Temba Bavuma is a proud person and failure will not be countenanced for long. (AFP)

Temba Bavuma, a cricketer with principles

The Proteas vice-captain, like many of his countrymen, has struggled in a tough Test series against India. But he remains defiant to lead by example

The ANC recalled eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede (centre) because of fraud accusations, but she has since withdrawn her resignation. (Gallo Images/The Times/Jackie Clausen)

Zandile Gumede about-turn further undermines ANC

Regional party conferences in KwaZulu-Natal will have repercussions for the ANC and its stability under Cyril Ramaphosa

While members of social movements and other political organisations and parties have also been murdered, the majority of the more than 100 people killed in the post-apartheid bloodletting have been ANC members. (Gallo)

Witnesses, cops on KZN hit lists

The majority of the more than 100 people killed in the province have been ANC members, but now witnesses, and even cops, appear to be on hit lists

Jazzed-up: The Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz, trumpet player Mandla Mlangeni. (Rafs Mayet)

Makhanda: No more lullabies

The National Arts Festival offers space for reflection about our fractious global moment

Former head of the National Prosecuting Authority, Mxolisi Nxasana. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Former NPA boss Nxasana tells Zondo of dirty tricks campaigns

Bigwigs in the NPA played their part in Zuma’s godly game by destabilising the NPA and ensuring the prosecution of people considered Zuma’s enemies

Sri Lanka’s Kusal Perera. (Getty)

Fast track bullies must learn Sri Lankan lesson

It is to be hoped that the defeat by Sri Lanka triggers the changes needed for South Africa to reach the top of the World Test Series

Rally cry: Despite facing a trial for corruption, Jacob Zuma, then ANC president, danced and sang at the party’s Johannesburg’s Ellis Park Stadium. Photo: Alexander Joe/AFP

Msholozi desperately tries for another (political) hit

The R25-million budget to have Zuma record an album of struggle songs is not merely about capturing history for posterity and posteriors.

Waiting to exhale: ‘Ahmed doesn’t know where I can pick up some brown chocolate, but warns that it’s safest to smoke it in my room, not wandering around on a private beach. Which made sense.’ (Photo: Raf Mayet)

I fly high on a little Sinai ‘chocolate’

Finding weed in an Egyptian resort crawling with security men during a conference of African leaders is as difficult as parting the Red Sea

Pakistan’s Mohamed Amir celebrates taking the wicket of England’s James Vince. (Paul Childs/Reuters)

Pakistan is either good or ghastly

​Perhaps no cricket-playing nation conjures the vicissitudes and vagaries of the game quite like Pakistan

The Proteas’ tour of Sri Lanka in July and August was rationalised by Cricket South Africa and the team leadership as an important learning exercise. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

Proteas’ habitual arrogance belies their status

The Proteas only have the prestige of their status as a cricketing nation to parley with — but even that appears inadequately leveraged

Tsafendas avoided the death penalty but was detained on death row until 1994 when he was moved to a mental institution. (Die Burger/Media24)

Verwoerd’s assassin a complex ‘hero’

Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’

Connections: Far from the ‘plodder’ and the ‘coward’ that he painted himself as

The essayist who froze history’s quiet moments

David Goldblatt has left South African documentary photography incalculably richer, writes Niren Tolsi

KPMG announces who will get its Gupta earnings (Photo Archive)

‘Conflict of interest’ could land judge in hot water

Judges are not allowed take up an appointment seen to be inconsistent with an independent judiciary

Contrary: Judge Tintswalo Makhubele insisted against Prasa’s in-house legal advice to settle a claim from the Siyaya group.

The judge, the big payout and the dodgy service provider

A R60m settlement involving Prasa puts the probity of its former chair under scrutiny