Tanzania gets its first woman leader: who is Samia Suluhu Hassan?
Often described as soft spoken, Hassan is anything but a timid leader.
Deep Dives
Our stories: the burden of student debt
Our staff shares their experiences with navigating student debt during their time as tertiary students, as student protests continue across the country.
How Meghan and Harry’s South African plan was scuppered by powerful royal insiders
As the fallout from THAT Meghan and Harry interview with Oprah Winfrey continues to reverberate around the world, it’s emerged that South Africa played a small but interesting role in the entire saga. In Sunday’s CBS interview, Meghan effectively confirmed what royal historian Robert Lacey has reported in his 2020 book, Battle of Brothers: the …
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Deep dive: Fashion has a waste problem. Here’s what you can do about it.
A simple guide to how thrifting can save the environment.
SA’s been downgraded, but is it fair?
You may have heard that South Africa has been “downgraded”. Again? Yup. There are three major rating agencies in the world. These are the names you keep hearing in the news: S&P, Fitch and Moody’s. They all have different grades, with weird names like BB+, etc. What you need to know is that you’re either …
Analysis: Why is Julius Malema so angry?
s Malema really angry about the injustices he sees around him, or is it
The DA was almost a stunning success story. Until it wasn’t.
As the DA heads to its elective conference this weekend, we explain how the party went from aspiring to be one for all South Africans, which grew through clear focus and planning, to one which is bleeding votes.
ANALYSIS: A black day for racing and reporting at Fairview
The Fairview saga provides a useful example of how careless reporting, that is mirrored by other media without first-hand verification, along with flames fanned on social media, can inflame racial tensions.
Covid-19 second waves around the world: Could SA be spared?
South Africa is still at risk of a second surge, but it is unlikely to be as big as has been seen in the North. We take a look at nine countries currently facing a second wave of infections.
VIDEO: OPINION: The EFF’s political opportunism is just plain wrong
Protest in SA has a powerful legacy, but the EFF is using it as a political ploy, says Samina Anwary.