The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is still deciding whether to prosecute the Tongaat Hulett executives — including its former chief executive — allegedly responsible for the R11-billion fraud which has gutted the sugar and property giant. The 10 former top managers from the company’s South African, Mozambican and Zimbabwean operations were implicated in accounting irregularities, […]
Humanity is amazed by our natural world but fails to value its importance to our survival
We have now entered a phase in which increasing complexity is creating a world that no one understands in detail
For the people who live near this sacred site in Ethiopa, religion is woven into daily life
Many people don’t view editing as a creative job. Instead they regard it as being technical and rigid — the publisher’s merciless hired hand. That’s not the case. I’m not a schoolteacher with a rod, teaching your words proper deportment. My favourite work is developmental editing for novels, where a lot of what I do […]
Mammoths and sabre-tooth cats once roamed the continent, but were our ancient ancestors responsible for their disappearance?
Wood from mango and orange trees is charred for smoking shisha, while the charcoal from casuarina, camphor and olive trees is used for barbecues
A four-year wait to retrieve three bodies trapped in a container underground could be over if a buyer for the mine is found
‘Thrown away like rubbish’ — Residents of what was once a rich mining town have survived the seven years since the mine closed
Adelaide Tantsi Dube’s poem was published in 1913, the year Africans were stripped of their land