South Africa’s only medallist at the 2008 Beijing Games is desperate to improve on his performance from four years ago.
New miners need more efficient infrastructure to capitalise on rich deposits in the Kalahari, writes Teigue Payne.
Roger Baxter has returned to the Chamber of Mines to help guide the industry to a brighter future, writes Lynley Donnelly.
From Angie and Limpopo (again) to Juju in London, Sipho Hotstix, and our Olympians, get up to speed on what everyone will be talking about this weekend.
The ANC has used power allotted to it to create a black elite by implementing affirmative action in rather doubtful ways, writes Sampie Terreblanche.
Strong legislatures in Parliament are essential to improving people’s quality of life, writes Nkosikhulule Nyembezi and Sam Waterhouse.
Underground hip-hop artist Ben Sharpa, BlackNoise legend Emile, and ProVerb ask whether hip-hop is still relevant and whether it still talks to social issues.
As all of Jacob Zuma’s ex-friends, associates and colleagues get booted, fired or imprisoned, he’s left wondering ‘now what’?
From not earning enough or not having a desire to do so, the reasons given for South Africans not saving are myriad.
Jacob Zuma’s popularity wanes in Gauteng, while the Limpopo textbook debacle may become a ugly blemish on the president’s record.
Researchers say ministerial disregard for policies does not bode well for the plan. Lynley Donnelly reports.
Charlene Sunkel knows first-hand the stigmas about mental health in society. Sharing her story, she talks of her experience accessing public healthcare.
The continuing saga of SA’s migration from analogue to digital tv is no closer to being resolved, thanks to a last-minute about-turn by the regulator.
Twenty years on, the events of the massacre are contested and people remain divided and angry, writes the M&G’s ombudsman Franz Kruger.
What was President Zuma thinking when he said on live radio that Julius Malema could make a great leader? We tune into the presidential brainwaves to find out.
The M&G’s Nickolaus Bauer breaks down the state of play as the ANC picks up the pace on the road to the ruling party’s elective conference in Mangaung.
Banyana defender Janine van Wyk speaks to M&G about her goals for the Olympics and why women’s football is on the way up.
Despite levels of pessimism worldwide about economic conditions, local business owners are more optimistic than their international counterparts.
Closer ties between South Africa and China have many benefits but critics remain guarded, writes Faeeza Ballim.
Proteas captain Graeme Smith says his squad is psychologically prepared for the three-Test series against England.
In honour of Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday we quizzed some children on what they think the father of the nation did for South Africa.
England include the seam-bowling all-rounder for the first Test against South Africa at The Oval.
This week Equal Education marched through the streets of Tembisa to mobilise the community in its fight for fair and quality education.
The M&G chats to Laurent Clavel of the French Season in South Africa 2012 which sees collaboration in theatre, music and other arts.
Transport and logistics parastatal Transnet has released impressive annual results, prompting optimistic media headlines.
Insurers are unlikely to lower their premiums as a result of the improved statistics, writes Lisa Steyn.
Dennis Davis finds much to applaud in former competition tribunal head David Lewis’s book Thieves at the Table.
This week’s episode takes us into a surreal world featuring penis overload – a bit like real life then, given recent events. Watch and laugh. Or grimace.
Beware of repeating the apartheid era’s fatal error of failing to heed the people’s desperate cries, writes Sandi Baai.
On the two-year anniversary of the Soccer World Cup final, we ask South Africans whether they still ‘feel it’, and where they think Phillip has gone.
More and more executives are taking to the ring to test their mettle. It’s not quite ‘Fight Club’, but they sure do give each other a beating.
With the two year anniversary of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup approaching, ‘Dancing in the Streets’ takes South Africans on a trip down memory lane.