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Most bizarre iPad and iPhone apps of 2012

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Dec 2012

From performing nose surgery to grooming a virtual horse, iPad apps are sometimes addictive, sometimes useless, and other times just downright weird.

RIP: Those who left us in 2012

Article Mg Correspondent - 21 Dec 2012

We look back at those who died in 2012.

There goes the neighbourhood…and here comes nuclear

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Dec 2012

What happens when government plans to build a nuclear plant in your hometown? Lionel Faull went to the Eastern Cape to find out.

OMG!!! sobs Your furry is giving me feels

Article Shaun De Waal - 21 Dec 2012

Welcome to the world of furry: a bizarre, sometimes pornographic, rambunctious new form of participatory pop culture.

Don’t pooh-pooh the benefits of biogas

Article Teigue Payne - 21 Dec 2012

Biogas digesters, which are commonly seen in many Asian countries, are among the most viable immediate green energy prospects in South Africa.

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Marikana: Truth, memory and reportage

Analysis Kwanele Sosibo - 21 Dec 2012

Telling the real story behind the shocking killings on the koppie of Lonmin's Marikana mine was never going to be easy, writes Kwanele Sosibo.

Instagram turns amateurs into artists

Article Verashni Pillay - 21 Dec 2012

With her thumbs and a phone and despite zero artistic background, Verashni Pillay got her first exhibition.

Addicted to extreme performance

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Dec 2012

Endurance sports for amateurs are growing in number as junkies chase their next high, writes enthusiast Richard Poplak.

New Jo’burg church has more than a whiff of cult

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Dec 2012

Victoria John reported on an infamous Mauritius institution in 2009. When a new branch opened in Johannesburg, she took another look.

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Cosatu: A labouring behemoth finally reaches the crossroads

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Dec 2012

The mighty Cosatu once revolutionised the labour scene, but did its transformation into an efficient bureaucracy unwittingly lead to Marikana?

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Jub Jub: The life and trial of a South African child star

Article Bongani Madondo - 21 Dec 2012

The story of Molemo Maarohanye is about far more than a celebrity gone bad. Bongani Madondo tracks the breathtaking rise of the new money culture.

WTF: The internet’s secretive hangouts

Article Niren Tolsi - 21 Dec 2012

Niren Tolsi goes deep into the web to find the underground world that lives on the Hidden Wiki.

The closing of Tygerberg Zoo

Article Sean Otoole 1 - 21 Dec 2012

Tygerberg Zoo, in the Western Cape, became the latest casualty in the changing nature of conservation, writes Sean O'Toole.

Controversial SA tweets of 2012

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Dec 2012

We round up the cringe-worthy, jaw-dropping South African Twitter blunders of 2012.

Nine sexist statements that rocked 2012

Article Verashni Pillay - 4 Dec 2012

Important people make idiotic remarks all the time, but these are now so much easier to appreciate thanks to the viral power of social media.

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