Ahead of #MGFridayBody, an edition on body politics, we tackled beauty standards
by challenging women to grow their body hair. Here are their diaries.
Frequent contributors and M&G reporters take top prizes at CNN African journalist of the year and Webber Wentzel legal journalist of the year awards.
A pupil from an inner city school in Johannesburg speaks about pupils who smoke weed and see it as a mechanism to influence their popularity.
What’s being read around the M&G newsroom? Here are some things we like. A lot.
The group will march to the ANC provincial headquarters for what they say is the ruling party’s wrongful political meddling in Prasa’s affairs.
Opponents of Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader say they have been vindicated by his now overweening control of the MDC-T party.
Aids is not over, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, but donors are pulling out of South Africa because it is a middle-income country.
Young talent Theunis de Bruyn has plenty of people talking – and he is not shy to do some straight talking himself.
The cultural scene in Johannesburg’s inner city spawned the birth of a number of experimental black music acts. Kwanele Sosibo tracks their evolution.
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