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Character study: The film follows teenager Logan Maart, who despite her quiet demeanour has developed a passion for spinning

Spinning from zero to infinity

Julia Jansch's award-winning documentary 'From Dust We Spin' explores the unique South African motorsport of car spinning through the eyes of Logan Maart, a teenager finding her…

The joint task force comprising the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to tackle crime will not see soldiers performing ordinary policing functions. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SANDF deployment to back police set to start on 31 March

National police commissioner Fannie Masemola said the army would play a supporting role to the South African Police Service

DISBANDED HOPE: Algae soup brewing in the informal settlement of Ethembeni, which means ‘hope’ in isiZulu, in Khayelitsha. (Lihle Tyala)

There’s something in the water. Khayelitsha’s kids want you to see it

When a group of learners headed out with their cameras to document infectious disease in the time of climate change, many came back with what they see every day — dangerous,…

Children in areas such as Lavender Hill on Cape Town are exposed to gang violence and poverty. Photo: David Harrison/M&G

Trauma is hampering the education of South Africa’s children

Teachers, especially those in schools where violence, drugs and gangsterism are a daily reality, need to become ‘trauma informed’

Women of the struggle: Artist Sue Williamson with works from her series of photo portraits from the ongoing series All Our Mothers.
Photo: Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery

The long and short of a 50-year artistic career

Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon

A police source working on gang-related activities in Hanover Park and Manenberg told the M&G: “The young ones don’t accept [gang] regulations and jump camp very easily.”
(David Harrison)

Cape Flats: Gang leadership crumbles as members fight their own

It is about power, drugs and money for young gangsters who snub ‘traditional’ loyalist rules

More boots have been put on the ground after more shootings occurred at the Cape Flats in the past week. (David Harrison/M&G)

Cape Flats shootings keep residents locked indoors for a second week

Two suspects have been arrested for attempted murder, and a key suspect for various shootings remains at large

‘Daddy, can I show the uncle my gun?’ (Joey Isaacs)

‘This is why a forever war kid like me is friends with gangsters’

Gangs offer Cape Flats youths a way to elevate their status, opportunities for manageable responsibility and to gain access to resources. And they start young

A life-sized statue pays homage to Coline Williams and Robbie Waterwitch outside the Athlone Police Station Photo: Ryan Enslin

Champion of the celebrated heroes of District Six

Anita Hermanus offers free walking tours through the streets of Cape Town, the Bo-Kaap and Athlone relating detailed anecdotes of the heroes and history

Police take security measurements at the scene of a mass shooting in Soweto, South Africa, on July 10, 2022. Fourteen people have been killed in a mass shooting at a bar in Soweto township near Johannesburg, police said Sunday. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Uproar over Gauteng mass shootings while other areas suffer in relative silence

Cele’s swift action in Soweto has been sorely lacking in other townships plagued by gun violence for years

A visitor at the ninth edition of the international art fair, Expo Chicago. (Justin Barbin)

South African artists taking over Chicago, Bonteheuwel style

The city has long had a fascination with South African jazz — and now with its visual artists

Rondevlei Manager
 Dalton Gibbs with the Erica Verticcalata

Locally extinct Erica makes a comeback in Cape Town

Erica verticillata, a plant endemic to an area along the Cape Flats, may have risen from extinction

Small businesses are central to South Africa’s economic resilience and recovery and corporates should work with them. Photo: David Harrison/M&G

It’s a Khaltsha thing: Khayelitsha’s growing middle class

In a few years the township will ‘disappear’, and Khayelitsha will become a city, believes one local entrepreneur

Residents of Bonteheuwel in Cape Town are dealing with a trauma all too familiar during September after the fourth fire in recent weeks. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

Fire in Bonteheuwel forces extended family with 15 children into one-bedroom house

This is the fourth fire in in the area in recent weeks

Security has been temporarily beefed up at Heinz Park Primary School in Philippi, Cape Town. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Security beefed up at Philippi school where teacher was killed

‘He was like a loving father,’ says community member of murdered teacher in Philippi, Western Cape