A spokesperson does not control the war, only the telling of it. Khulu Phasiwe understood this better than most. At Eskom, he stood between institutional failure and public anger, absorbing the…
In 1946, a struggling alcoholic in Alexandra found a Reader’s Digest in a dustbin and discovered Alcoholics Anonymous. Eight…
Dolly Parton's extraordinary life was not simply a story of escaping poverty. It was a story of refusing to be ashamed of where…
The latest deaths near Rustenburg have again exposed the dangers of illegal mining. But beneath the familiar images of men…
Sol Rachilo could make a classroom feel like a theatre, a rehearsal feel like a life lesson, and a frightened young artist feel…
Crash tests are exposing a troubling divide on South African roads, where budget vehicles can meet statutory requirements while still falling short on the structural protection and safety…
Problem drinking does not always arrive with a crisis. Sometimes it creeps into ordinary life, becoming the drink after a difficult day, the weekend habit that spreads into weekdays, or…
Part Two: When the Warning Signs Are Already There
Firearm violence is too serious a subject to be reduced to frightening numbers, political slogans or convenient statistics. In this two-part analysis, we examine how the figures are…
For Jack and Eunice Shabangu, Dube Bowling Club is not an abandoned building. It is where love, friendship, sport and youthful dreams once flourished. They remember the immaculate greens…
Three bottles of whisky a day. Blackouts. Hospital admissions. A body beginning to fail. Gogo Bathini knows the cost of alcohol because he has paid it himself. His journey from destructive…
Days before his death, Seputla Sebogodi stood beneath the stage lights one final time, commanding audiences with the same power that defined a career spanning four decades of theatre…
Long before he became a global symbol of musical majesty, he was just a kid on the Cape Town docks with a handful of coins, hustling American sailors for bebop records. What followed were…
Have-A-Look. Handsome. Thanks. Trust. Privilege. Doubt. Problem. Shame. In Zimbabwe, these are not just random words. They are names chosen with intention in a culture where naming a child…
From throat and anal cancers to reduced fertility, the human papillomavirus poses serious risks to men who go largely undetected and unvaccinated. South Africa vaccinates girls, but boys…
Across Soweto, Finetown and Orange Farm, PrEP users are forming informal “stokvels” to help one another survive the financial and social pressures of staying on treatment. But activists…
Researchers at the University of Cape Town have developed a pioneering artificial intelligence language model trained on all 11 of South Africa’s official written languages. The…
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