Special Report
2011: It's a wrap
Freedom. It's been the word of the year. The M&G's end of year edition will explore this issue and more.

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Making sense of the Arab Spring

Percy Zvomuya spoke to Libyan novelist Hisham Matar in an attempt to understand what happened and where things are heading in North Africa.

Monumental shortcomings of plastic

Read an excerpt from Akin Adesokan's ongoing novel, You've Got to Learn to Look Stupid before Indians!

African culture uncensored

Percy Zvomuya delves into proverbs and finds the chauvinistic, the obscene and the dirty.

The trappings of bondage

Whipping boy Niren Tolsi enters the citadel of an uptown dominatrix.

It's time to occupy, my friends

People worldwide unite to free themselves from the shackles of dysfunctional systems.

Facing down the new authoritarians

It is not just press freedom that is under threat. Far from it. Nic Dawes on the assault on our Constitution.

Freeganism: the final frontier?

Rather than contributing to further waste, freegans aim to curtail garbage and pollution by reclaiming and using discarded goods.

Ten ways green can set you free

Fiona Macleod and Laura Grant explain that energy efficient needn't cost a fortune.

Juju won't lead anti-Jacob Zuma dance

An anti-Jacob Zuma lobby group in the ANC has asked embattled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema to step aside as the face of its campaign.

No New Year textbooks for Limpopo learners

Thousands of pupils in Limpopo will start school next year with no new textbooks because the education department did not order any.