​Unembargoed: March 23 to 28

This week’s M&G is now free to read.
This week’s M&G is now free to read.

The extremist group takes credit for alerting the world to the alleged persecution of white people in South Africa

With the Timol inquest findings overturned, there’s hope that the truth about Hoosen Haffejee will be known

“It started way back in high school with a friend of mine, Ebrahim Osman, who had a gaming console. We would go to his house after school, make eggs and bread and play on his PlayStation. He opened up my world to gaming”

Minibus operators blame Ekurhuleni for creating problems but documents reveal another truth

Just two weeks before the Democratic Alliance holds its federal congress, Gauteng leader John Moodey has raised concerns that the party is excluding black, township-based members from attending it.

Many Umkhonto weSizwe veterans find themselves living on the streets, abandoned by the country that they helped to free

The red-beret-in-chief paints the ruling party as a lapdog slavishly following the EFF’s lead

After being awarded damages, distraught families want more: Qedani Mahlangu must be prosecuted

KwaZulu-Natal prosecutions boss advocate Moipone Noko said she will treat former president Jacob Zuma’s impending corruption case like “any other” high-profile matter within her jurisdiction

The ANC’s national executive committee has been backed into a corner and forced to endorse last year’s election of Eastern Cape chair Oscar Mabuyane and his team, because nullifying the result could plunge the party’s national leadership into crisis, provincial leaders have told the Mail & Guardian

Factions line up over the proposal to delay a number of regional and provincial conferences

Khume Ramulifho says he’s not eyeing James Selfe’s job but he does want a deputy for Maimane

Quarters, a legacy of apartheid, still exist for domestic workers in many buildings in the area. The rooms are barely big enough for a single bed but they have been the only place where poor people can afford to live in the seaside, touristy suburb

Industry players want new minister Gwede Mantashe to remove all those appointed by the former minister

Social security staff are in a tizz, fretting that no backup plan is in place to pay grants come April 1

The steep rise in assassinations came after 2012, although in KwaZulu-Natal there had been an increase in killings since 2010 because of the high number of taxi employees and bosses who were gunned down

Five long-standing Ingo-nyama Trust Board staff members have been sitting at home on full pay since the middle of 2016 after being suspended by the board management in what is claimed to be a purge of “unco-operative” staff

Death and dignity: How KZN strips cancer patients of their pride

Terminally ill patients in the province have little access to pain relief, or basic care. Here’s one man’s story

When the police arrived in their village in Nandi County in Kenya’s North Rift, Patrick Kipng’etich and Daniel and Henry Ng’etich didn’t think much of it. That is, until they realised the police were there for them.

The agreement is a major achievement but there are many hurdles to jump before it becomes reality

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he fully supports calls for a single African currency — and that maybe it should be digital

The former leader is still fighting his ousting and can’t acknowledge that few want him back

Victor Gamedze was one of the most powerful men in Swaziland. But his death raises more questions than answers

Revelations of firm’s role in Kenya’s 2013 and 2017 polls engulfs the president in another crisis

Shortly after sunrise, a group of young women arrives at a football pitch in Mogadishu, where they shrug off their hijabs — some changing underneath the billowing veil — to reveal their team kit

The president will be judged on how he navigates the turbulent political and economic headwinds

There has been an upsurge in right-wing activity across the West, in countries usually thought to be stable, contented, middle-of-the-road democracies

On this continent, we are all too familiar with the long and shameful history of Western companies and countries meddling in our politics, often with disastrous results.

Our readers write in about the Inonyama Trust, interracial friendships and how the archbishop didn’t ignore a complainant

After 10 years of following the JZ story, I slept through Shaun’s decision to charge him

Despite McKaiser’s best attempts, he can’t shrug off the core elements of exploitative capitalism

Postpartum depression in men is real and it may be linked to testosterone levels

My Life in Ruins (SABC3, 7pm); The Bank Job (e.TV, 8pm); The Voice (M-Net, 8pm). These are the shows you’ll miss, partially or completely, during Earth Hour on Saturday March 24.

International peer forums are providing the framework to bolster children’s advancement

Marthinus Steyn’s statue inflicts violence at the University of the Free State Campus

Your every detail is being tracked online and you have little control over what will be done with it

Are you fed-up with being harassed by unsolicited phone calls and SMSes from marketers and even political parties?

The minister wants to breathe new life into an industry hamstrung by his precedessor

But there’s “no evidence” that listeria was imported from elsewhere in the world

Renewable energy producers were set to go ahead but resistance has gained momentum

Mr President, I am sending you to find out why an important festival organiser like the Centre for Creative Arts got its funding cut by the national department of arts and culture.

I Listen, I Hear, I Grow: My Autobiography by Hans Hlalethwa and Horse Power. A Complex Magazine documentary

The two women behind new T-shirt line Mnike are jamming bophelo ba ko kasi and pop culture together

This documentary weaves the truth about gentrification today with history of capitalist spatial planning

Before the present day, before democracy, before apartheid, before 1912, before 1652, theatre has been used as a mechanism of storytelling in our lands, and storytellers have achieved high status in our cultures and subcultures

By virtue of being a documentary film that is more than just about its stated subject — a huge, state-sponsored doping cover-up in the Russian Athletics Federation — Icarus may change how one views pro sports forever

Incorruptible: The story of the murders of Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani

If the copyright law is changed, South African artist could soon find extra money in their pockets

When I read the collection of essays in Feminism Is: South Africans Speak Their Truth, no line appeared in the space between my eyes. I felt at a loss. Even my strategy of poring over the book on International Women’s Day, to try to give my reading some backbone, failed to make me feel any less unmoored

Nightshade might seem more than a prop in he film but she is more than she appears to be

The weekend’s Super Rugby action will see all SA franchises in action

Manchester United have announced plans to form a women’s professional team after long being criticised for lagging behind their rivals

He isn’t well known on the international stage, but fast bowler Jaydev Unadkat has been thrust into the cricketing limelight after being handed a bumper payday by the Indian Premier League

Now that his hearing it over, fans can look forward to seeing Rabada bring back the heat

The Billion Dollar Man refuses to let up, as he races to advance his winning streak

A delayed elective congress and ongoing Bafana bungles place the body’s credibility on the line