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Artificially dimming the sun may reduce the risk of future droughts in Cape Town

Environment Sheree Bega - 21 Nov 2020

But it can't solve the climate crisis, say a team of scientists

Busy Bee continues to sting despite challenges

Sport Adrian Ephraim - 18 Nov 2020

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 financially for good resources

Can our police be trusted with their weapons?

Opinion Mary Rayner, Thato Masiangoako & Neil Corney - 12 Nov 2020

COMMENT: Excessive force and lack of accountability characterise South Africa’s police force

Q&A with author Mia Arderne: ‘A prayer for the jol not to end

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 12 Nov 2020

Mia Arderne’s Mermaid Fillet was a lifetime in the making. The author’s vulnerability gives the book superpowers

Eastern Cape universities concerned by rising Covid cases

Education Bongekile Macupe - 21 Oct 2020

Fort Hare says 26 more students have tested positive while Walter Sisulu University says some of its students have been admitted to hospital.

Cape quakes no concern for Koeberg

Business Lester Kiewit - 29 Sep 2020

Last week’s tremor has anti-nuclear campaigners questioning the safety of Koeberg, although the nuclear facility said the plant is designed to sustain a magnitude-seven earthquake

Car review: Shot of S-Presso lacks punch

Motoring Luke Feltham - 27 Sep 2020

Suzuki’s budget offering doesn’t do much much wrong but is not particularly memorable either

The young and the rentless: Inside Camps Bay’s ‘hijacked’ mansion

National Lester Kiewit - 23 Sep 2020

An activist art collective is refusing to leave a luxury holiday home, claiming their protest is to highlight landlessness and growing inequality in Cape Town

Koeberg could power on to 2044

Business Lester Kiewit - 28 Aug 2020

After three decades’ use, South Africa’s only nuclear power plant could see its lifespan extended by 20 years — despite objections

Extract from ‘Mermaid Fillet: A Noir Crime Novel’ by Mia Arderne

Friday Mia Arderne - 18 Aug 2020

This extract from Mia Arderne’s debut work of fiction, ‘Mermaid Fillet: A Noir Crime Novel’ introduces readers to Uncle ‘M16-in-your-bek’

Covid plateau in Western Cape carries ‘be vigilant’ warning

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit - 4 Aug 2020

The province has reported a drop in new infections, especially in densely populated areas such as Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Gugulethu, Nyanga and Manenberg.

Wet worries for Cape Town’s poorest a perennial issue

National Lester Kiewit - 22 Jul 2020

A fortnight after an early winter downpour, a recently established informal settlement comes to terms with the Cape’s hydromorphology of seasonal floodplains.

Back in time to meals on wheels

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit - 9 Jul 2020

Cape Town’s oldest roadhouse is hoping to make a comeback during the coronavirus lockdown. Nostalgia is the biggest seller

Cape Town learners identify as coloured; the curriculum and teachers say they’re Biko black

Education Natasha Robinson - 27 Jun 2020

The teenagers, who clearly understood that race is fluid – some even changed their identity – felt shunned. If race is socially constructed, they should not be ignored.

Pressure to remove colonial relics grows

National Lester Kiewit - 18 Jun 2020

This week, the Black People’s National Crisis Committee (BPNCC) said it would intensify protest if activists are not listened to.

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Traditional healers need new spaces

john molebatsi & christina breed & gary ivan stafford - 24 Nov 2020

Proper facilities supported by well-researched cultural principles will go a long way to improving the image and perception of the practice of traditional medicine

National

Limpopo big-game farmer accused of constant harassment

Lucas Ledwaba - 23 Nov 2020

A family’s struggle against alleged intimidation and failure to act by the authorities mirrors the daily challenges farm dwellers face

National

Zondo tightens his grip with criminal complaint against Zuma

Sarah Smit - 23 Nov 2020

The state capture commission’s star witness now faces a criminal complaint and another summons

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Special Reports

Land reform still a hot potato

special reports - 24 Nov 2020

The land has got to belong to all the people of South Africa, and many believe that there’s no other mechanism for that except expropriation

Special Reports

UP chemical pathology scientists develop ground-breaking nanobodies for Covid-19 detection and therapy

special reports - 24 Nov 2020

Nanobodies are smaller than conventional antibodies and easier to work with so they are ideal for good cheap sensitive rapid tests for Covid-19

Special Reports

Inclusion as learned experience in higher education

special reports - 23 Nov 2020

Understanding the complexity of intersections between oppressions relating to race and gender is key to any commitment to creating a culture of inclusion and social justice

Special Reports

Local government in crisis: how it can be fixed

special reports - 20 Nov 2020

Local governments are supposed to promote non-racial development, in a decentralised manner, but the reality does not match up

Special Reports

Covid-19 accelerates adoption of technology by the African property sector

special reports - 20 Nov 2020

It’s not the technology itself that is valuable, it’s the opportunities that it creates: this may be the perfect time for reinvention

Special Reports

BE 1 OF 8 LUCKY PEOPLE TO DRIVE OFF WITH R80 000

special reports - 19 Nov 2020

From 23 to 30 November 2020, simply purchase any BMW bearing the number “8” and you could be one of eight lucky people to drive off with R80 000

Special Reports

Introducing Sabinet Judgments

special reports - 18 Nov 2020

A well-rounded view of reported and unreported judgments supplemented by an advanced system to enable users to rapidly find the information they require

Special Reports

The Southern Africa Tuberculosis and Health Systems Support Research and Publication Interventions

special reports - 13 Nov 2020

The project places emphasis on rolling out a standardised package of occupational health services and mining safety standards across four countries