March 22 2024

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Markus Jooste robbed us all for the last time

It would have been better had the former Steinhoff boss still been alive.

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‘We Russians can’t be trusted with democracy’

The preference for authoritarianism remains strong.

Health & Environment
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Sitting ourselves to death

Sitting less is possibly the best health advice you have never heard.

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Covid: communication amateur hour

Four years after the first lockdown, a reflection on what we can learn from the pandemic's communication blunders.

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Msholozi, isn’t it past your jailtime?

#TheRealSONA, the SS Stalingrad chugging ahead and Naledi Pandor like a cat on a hot tin roof in America.

Image: Theodore Key | @theodore_key_illustration
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The narrow road to Angola

A trip north to declare his love changed the life of a young South African.

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Let’s stop worrying until Monday

In the midst of wars, scary politics and madness, focus on people's accomplishments instead.

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The year I embraced Africa

Sangomas are in the spotlight after the disappearance of Joshlin Smith but they can't all be tarred with the same brush.

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Why Gaza is experiencing the century’s first holocaust

Israel is using the logic employed by the Nazis.

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Camping delights for ‘kings’ of the Kgalagadi

How to eat well in the wild, even if you're plagued by roaring 'lions' and crushing heat.

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Lifestyle
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Popcorn, orcas and new podcasts

The Fomolistas' radar has detected a way to breathe new life into your old hi-fi … and cafe's for pig cuddlers.

Lifestyle
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15 questions for Andries Bezuidenhout

The academic, musician, painter and poet lives in the Eastern Cape and works at the University of Fort Hare.

Books
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The Korean craze washed right over me

A stream of consciousness or books with a storyline and characters who focus on others? I know which I prefer.

Books
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The spy wears Prada

Hang out in Beirut with secret agent Analise Assad while bombs rain down and the blood flows.

Books
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The heyday of Aids, espionage and love

Two biographies of people who lived life to the fullest, a novel about a spy and a feel-good love story.