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New Year

Personal finance: sustainable budgeting tips to stretch your money in 2025
Business
/ 2 January 2025

Personal finance: sustainable budgeting tips to stretch your money in 2025

Consumers should spend cautiously, despite the positive outlook for the year

By Aarti Bhana
How to not suck at New Year’s resolutions
Thought Leader
/ 4 January 2024

How to not suck at New Year’s resolutions

You’re not alone … every year far too many of us find ourselves trapped in the same cycle of broken promises to ourselves

By Michael Brian Lee
Dare we cheer a happy new year?
Opinion
/ 15 December 2021

Dare we cheer a happy new year?

Will 2022 will be any less harsh than 2021? Our correspondent certainly hopes so

By Paddy Harper
Resolving New Year’s revolutions
Article
/ 3 January 2020

Resolving New Year’s revolutions

To celebrate the year of 2020 Gus Silber imagined asking a cross-section of famous South Africans for their views on what the future holds.

By Gus Silber
The New Year’s resolutions solution
Article
/ 11 January 2019

The New Year’s resolutions solution

To be resolute is to be unwavering and they waver (in the form of waivers), taking away our right to demand logic

By Hans Mackenzie Main
What’s the good news? Fake news and acts of kindness
Analysis
/ 6 January 2017

What’s the good news? Fake news and acts of kindness

Watch out for the potholes in the road ahead and never, ever spell-shame on Twitter.

By Gus Silber
Chaos and screams at Shanghai New Year stampede
Article
/ 1 January 2015

Chaos and screams at Shanghai New Year stampede

At least 35 people were killed and 48 injured, according to city officials, during Shanghai’s New Year celebration at the Bund.

By Staff Reporter
Happy New Year: Good riddance to a turbulent 2014
Article
/ 1 January 2015

Happy New Year: Good riddance to a turbulent 2014

Revelers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the skyscrapers of Dubai and New York’s Times Square to say goodbye to 2014.

By Sapa Ap
Ushering in 2014: Cities prepare to party
Article
/ 31 December 2013

Ushering in 2014: Cities prepare to party

From Cape Town’s Grand Parade party to fireworks in Sydney and a long line-up of kwaito acts in Jo’burg, here’s how major cities plan to welcome 2014.

By Sapa
Hillbrow police prepare for the worst on New Year’s
Article
/ 30 December 2011

Hillbrow police prepare for the worst on New Year’s

Fridges might fly and beds may fall from the sky as residents in Hillbrow see in the New Year by throwing broken furniture onto the streets below.

By Johannes Myburgh

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