Beauty is entering a more thoughtful phase. After years of high-glam filters, fast trends and overconsumption, 2026 is shaping up to be defined by intention. Consumers are no longer chasing every new launch. They are asking sharper questions. They are choosing products and services that align with their values, identity and long-term goals. As a […]
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant frontier technology. In South Africa, it is already reshaping financial services, healthcare delivery, agriculture, education, logistics and public administration. Investment is rising, pilot projects are moving into production, and a new generation of founders, researchers and executives is embedding AI into real systems. Yet this acceleration is unfolding […]
Cape Town sculptor Warren Maroon wins the Investec Emerging Artist Award 2026 for ‘Rising Sun’ at the Cape Town Art Fair
At a Mail & Guardian post-Sona breakfast held in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Embassy of Ireland, analysts turned from the president’s reform agenda to the harder question of execution. Structural unemployment, municipal dysfunction, coalition politics and institutional rebuilding dominated a discussion that placed delivery, not rhetoric, at the centre of South Africa’s political […]
The month-long investigation concludes with a person who passed higher grade math confirming the result. Photojournalist Ilan Godfrey’s exhaustive investigation into which draught beers are most likely to be abandoned drew to a close this week. The probe followed Castle Lite’s claim that its draught is less likely to be abandoned because it’s served extra […]
Celeste Ntuli turns personal roasts, faith and fearless storytelling into a must-see comedy experience as she takes her hit show to Cape Town
A gregarious man with a mission, a complex personality, hard-nosed politician, he strode from the pulpits of politics to the precipice of the Oval Office, paving the way along Pennsylvania Avenue for Barack Obama
Senior Democratic Alliance officials are backing Western Cape agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer to replace the party leader as agriculture minister after its April federal congress
Not long ago, it was unthinkable that the leader of the DA would ever walk up the steps to the Union Buildings
The liberalisation loosens the colonial grip on African life. It allows states to maintain sovereignty while refusing to let colonial lines dictate connectivity