January 19 2024

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When facts can’t shake ancient convictions

Why do so many people still believe in the disgraced TB Joshua?

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Knife of morality at the throat of free speech

We dare not allow debate on everything from Gaza to decolonisation to be held captive by moral codes.

People & Culture
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‘AI threatens democracies everywhere’

The enduring challenges of race and ethnicity in South Africa and the dangers that AI poses to human rights.

People & Culture
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A remarkable Drakenstein family album

Some 30,000 glass plate negatives tell an intricate story of Victorian-era Paarl and its residents.

Image: Theodore Key | @theodore_key_illustration
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Why the DA is getting into the weeds

The biggest opposition party is preparing to demonstrate the scale of Cyril Ramaphosa's deceit.

News & Politics
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Who is Nikki Haley?

A brief sketch about Nikki Haley, who hopes to beat Donald Trump to the Republican Party's nomination.

Health & Environment
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The wheels come off in the concrete jungle

Two wheelchairs users talk about the challenges they encounter in Cape Town.

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Brawn needs brains to get to match point

In a sport like tennis, you're not going to get to the top without having something between your ears.

LIFESTYLE

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An architect and a full-time scholar of nature

Wallace Honiball explains how he integrates two beloved fields of study.

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Bread to beat the new year blues

It's the one food that can bring calm during its preparation.

BACK PAGE

Lifestyle
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From cheerful yellow checks to chilli oil

Everything on the Fomo sapiens radar you want to know about this week.

Lifestyle
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15 questions for Casper de Vries

The comedian has been on the sidelines for two years due to ‘a cruel form of everyday tick bite fever' but he's...

Books
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A life-defining butter ad, then madness

A fictitious life story told as clear as a whistle.

Books
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Cracked spines and well-thumbed pages

Every time you reread a favourite book it is a new experience — because you are a different person.

Books
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The descolocada of displaced Jorge Borges

Why did the great writer never win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Books
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A nonagenarian debut, cat tales, a con artist and chillis

Michael Caine's first novel leads the weekly selection of books not to be missed.