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Adrian Ephraim

Adrian Ephraim is a journalist and editor who has worked in print, radio and digital over the past 20 years – for The Star newspaper, IOL, Mail & Guardian and Eyewitness News. He has covered sport since 2005, when he won the SAB Newcomer of the Year Award. His work has focused on human interest stories in news and sport, and the triumph of hard work and determination over adversity.

High-dimensional quantum code cracker: ‘I can observe all these fundamental properties of quantum mechanics with simple lasers,’ says Dr Isaac Nape in his Wits lab. (Ihsaan Haffejee)

Savvy scientist’s quantum leap

Dr Isaac Nape from Wits University is getting accolades from scientists in the field of quantum optics for his team’s groundbreaking technique

Kagiso Rabada’s broad shoulders have carried the South African attack since his Test debut in 2015. (Photo by Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images)

The science behind the Proteas’ succession of fast bowlers

The Proteas have consistently had a bevy of strong pace bowlers. The man in charge of ensuring this remains the case for many years to come is confident that all the right plans…

Undated: A photograph of the Busy Bee team who won the UTC League Cup between 1939 and 1941. The club was established in 1923 and is the oldest Black rugby club in Cape Town. (Photograph supplied)

Busy Bee continues to sting despite challenges

Cape Town’s oldest Black rugby club personifies the problems Black rugby faces, including attempts to have its history erased, being affected by apartheid and struggling…

While he failed to live up to the high standards of his 2013 performance, Chris Brown reinforced why he has the staying power to set him apart, writes Adrian Ephraim.

Chris Brown turns up for Mzansi, despite personal drama

While he failed to live up to the high standards of his 2013 performance, Chris Brown reinforced why he has the staying power to set him apart.

‘Windows XP was a huge success for Microsoft

A fresh spin on uplifting beats

Oliver Heldens’s dance moves might look silly, but his DJ skills are hot and he’s a rapidly rising star in the world of electronic dance music.

The transfer of Eskom’s transmission assets appears to be a sticking point.

Looking on darkness? Fear not, the ANC has got this

It’s tough being middle class when circumstances conspire to deprive you of basics such as running water and electricity, writes Adrian Ephraim.

That Chester Missing guy seems like a good fit for political office. He is a puppet after all.

For My sake, please quit the Happy videos

Upon further exploration the Rosetta spacecraft discovered not God, but a lost sermon from the Almighty – and it appears he is pissed off with us.

Mairy Tsigoida narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban where members of the Groenewald family were not as fortunate. She tells her story.

South Africans in the crossfire: Why I won’t leave Kabul

South African Mairy Tsigoida narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban, but the Groenewald family were not as fortunate. She tells her story.

Germany’s Toni Kroos consoles Brazil’s Dante after their semifinal match in Belo Horizonte.

Poetry and purgatory: Dante’s inferno for Brazil

Brazilian defender Dante’s personal journey through hell in Belo Horizonte, as Germany routed Brazil 7-1, is steeped in poetry, writes Adrian Ephraim.

‘Rocky’

Nyaope’s deadly, and addictive, mix

The highly addictive mix of heroin and cannabis is the drug of choice for the economic outcasts.

Suarez takes a bite out of life

From hand to mouth, Luis Suarez has been ruining lives since 2010. The Uruguayan chomper has done more for the bite than Mike Tyson – or Eve.

Game of Thrones: Winter is here

With apologies to creator George RR Martin and anyone else to whom we couldn’t pay royalties, the M&G parodies Game of Thrones with SA politics.

Adrian Ephraim decided to go cold turkey

A tobacco addict comes clean

I decided to go cold turkey: I no longer reek of cigarette smoke, my wife no longer recoils when I slink into bed, I sleep better, I breathe better.

Members of Parliament are sworn in.

An alternative member of Parliament oath

To everyone I owe my new credit limit to, I swear allegiance. So help me Jacob.

Officials say 31 people have died in protest-related violence so far, while Human Rights Watch says at least 51 have been killed including medics and children. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)

Nkandla and the politics of denial

Are South Africans really so damaged by the past that we remain in denial about the inconvenient truths surrounding our politicians?

Oscar and the Oscars: Our vilest obsessions

Fittingly, the Academy awards (the Oscars) and the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius have illuminated our most mortal vices: vanity and violence.

Ultra, CTEMF: SA in the slipstream of global EDM movement

If God is a DJ, according to Faithless and everyone wants to be a DJ, says Paul van Dyk; and if Paris Hilton thinks she’s a DJ – then God help us all.

The curious case against Radovan Krejcir

Who exactly is Radovan Krejcir accused of kidnapping and assaulting, and is this the best the police could come up with?

The revered minister of money Pravin Gordhan. (David Harrison, M&G)

Pravin Gordhan’s 9 commandments (for wasteful ministers)

The revered minister of money Pravin Gordhan returned from the pulpit known as Parliament with nine commandments for his ministers.

President Jacob Zuma.
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Zuma: Don’t think like an African – pay up for e-tolls

Another week, another curious off-the-cuff remark from Jacob Zuma has left observers bewildered – which some call the "I am not an African" speech.