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A holiday for the soul: Home is where the beach is

Friday -
Revisiting a childhood holiday spot — Chintsa in the Eastern Cape — helped to kickstart recovery from burnout and depression

The 2021 M&G Sport Audit: How our national teams fared this year

Sport , & -
Once more we have the opportunity to take our marking pen to their performance

Hier kom Lister! On the ‘Comrade Editor’s’ lifelong commitment to activism and journalism

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Gwen Lister’s book, ‘Comrade Editor’, weaves together a narrative from the strands of her own life, her journalism, and the wider context of Namibia’s struggle for independence

Hamba kahle, Siyabonga Africa — may the force be with you

Opinion -
Siya is an immeasurable loss to South Africa’s media landscape, but he will be best remembered for his countless acts of kindness

Unpacking Johannesburg’s myriad anxieties

Friday -
Anxious Jo’burg, edited by Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden, acknowledges the city as a real place and not a horrifying stereotype

‘Feline Philosophy’: A cat’s-eye view on life’s meaning

Friday -
In his latest book, philosopher John Gray examines how cats live according to their nature — and how us humans could benefit from emulating their (c)attitude

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

Friday -
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

Meet the founder of Accra’s one-woman library

Friday -
Sylvia Arthur founded the Library for Africa and the African Diaspora to house her collection and share it with other readers

Review: ‘Afterland’ — a novel that foreshadows the Covid-19 pandemic

Article -
For the past five years, Lauren Beukes has been working on a book set in the aftermath of a global epidemic. Its release couldn’t have been more timely

Kintu, a refusal to ‘write back’

Article -
Time of the Writer is cancelled. Instead of hearing Jennifer Makumbi speak, we read her first novel

Review: ‘The Mirror & the Light’ or, the fall of Thomas Cromwell

Article -
Hilary Mantel’s final volume in the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy is a triumphant end to her depiction of the blacksmith’s boy who became the king of England’s right-hand man

Slice of life: The Wilds’ Purple Pimpernel

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