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As a girl child, I am valuable to my family. When they tried to marry me off, I ran away. But now I am back home. In a country where girls have few rights

Rise in attacks on journalists and opposition activists in Zimbabwe ahead of elections

Two opposition MPs and 13 Citizens Coalition for Change party members are in jail for protesting against the murder of a colleague

Business

Government forges on with dirty money clean up to avoid greylisting

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Ismail Momoniat is hoping to take ‘a massive step forward’ in fortifying the country’s money laundering controls by passing two bills before next February

Why US giant Walmart wants all of SA Massmart at R62 a share

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Walmart buying the remaining shares of Massmart would give the struggling retailer financial and operational support to help turn it around, the group said

Restaurants say ban on ‘meat’ names for veggie products is straining business

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Although the ban has been temporarily interdicted, businesses dealing in meat analogue products have received no information from government on labelling specs

Politics

Faced with MPs’ questions, Ramaphosa remains silent on Farmgate

Opposition parties protested that the law does not allow the president to evade questions from elected representatives

Is Godongwana the latest of South Africa’s predator politicians?

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The finance minister is not the first politician to get into hot water over claims of sexual misconduct

KwaZulu-Natal ANC defends Ingonyama Trust

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At the same time the supreme court of appeal has dismissed the ITB’s bid to overturn a high court ruling that its residents’ leases were unlawful

Environment

Drones are being used to help save the critically endangered Clanwilliam cedar in the Western Cape

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AirSeed Cedar project allows targeted seed distribution by air to inaccessible or dangerous terrain

Direct jail sentences a win in fight against South Africa’s illegal wildlife trade

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Clean energy explainer: What is a just transition?

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Sasol in the dock for environmental degradation at Secunda, polluting the Vaal River

Online Gambling laws in South Africa

Arts & Culture

Tony Gum launches her latest exhibition, ‘Milked in Africa’, in New York

The multidisciplinary artist talks about finding herself through visual storytelling.

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Here Goes Nothing: Novel holds mirror to our social egos with sharp humour

Mr JazziQ is hungrier than ever

Cape Town through the eyes of a Joburger

Education

Youth lose out because many schools don’t offer maths and science

A teacher shortage is one reason learners are not doing these subjects but instead of giving up on these subjects, schools should turn to technology

It is vital to build capacity in the basic sciences in Africa

Basic sciences, such as physics, maths and stats, advance human knowledge and push the frontiers of technology for the benefit of a sustainable society

Links between colleges, industry vital

Weak partnerships with industry and poor curriculum choices are among the factors driving unemployment among graduates

Sport

Belgian F1 review: The untouchables

Red Bull exerted dominance, with Ferrari still scratching their heads over strategy calls, in an action-packed race. The holidays are over and we’ve missed F1 …

Kickoff is dead – and so is Bafana’s dream

The magazine documented the now-betrayed hopes of South African football in the 1990s

To fix Man United, Ten Hag must brainwash his stars

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Top coaches are either psychologists or cult leaders; Maguire & company need the latter, writes Carlos Amato

World

The legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR

He was probably its only truly humane one and has died at a time when political repression in his native Russia has become stifling once more

World hails ‘one-of-a-kind’ ex-Soviet leader Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev changed the course of history by triggering the demise of the Soviet Union

Philip Morris International misleading the public about nicotine in heated tobacco products

A heated tobacco stick used in an Iqos device contains more than 4mg of nicotine, eight times the amount often claimed by the multinational tobacco company