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Editorial: Hell of a year for a birthday

Editorial Editorial - 17 Dec 2020

The Mail & Guardian celebrated a milestone in the crazy year that was, not that 1985 was any less so

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National Sipho Kings - 13 Aug 2020

Thank you for buying our newspaper. Siyabonga, re a leboga, enkosi, dankie. You are why our newsroom can keep doing good journalism

1985: The year it all started

Archives Mail Guardian Online Reporter - 13 Aug 2020

In the coming weeks we will take you back, year by year, through our history and the history of this country and continent. So much has changed since 1985. So much more needs to change.

We do what we do because of you

Opinion Sipho Kings - 3 Jun 2020

Sipho Kings has been appointed the acting editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian

Shaun Johnson: Charm without the smarm

Analysis Irwin Manoim - 6 Mar 2020

The Weekly Mail hired him to get the training project off the ground; he did much, much more than that, writes Irwin Manoim

A Sona to reflect troubled times

Article Bongekile Macupe & Khadija Patel - 13 Feb 2020

Ramaphosa and his role model Nelson Mandela became presidents of South Africa in very trying times

What we do is important. Trust us

Article Khadija Patel - 20 Sep 2019

Given attacks against media and important questions being raised about our work, we need to be open about why we do what we do

Thandi Modise, the knitting needles guerrilla

Article Staff Reporter - 27 May 2019

The first in a two-part series by Thami Mkhwanazi. This week: Life in the camps

Editorial: Turning the page at the M&G

Article Editorial - 12 Dec 2017

'It is our ardent hope that our new proprietor, the MDIF, will allow us the freedom to tell the stories of South Africa as it ought to be told'

M&G needed now just as much as it was 30 years ago

Analysis Chris Roper 1 - 11 Jun 2015

Governments and big business might be good, or bad - they require the same amount of oversight and investigation by media and civil society.

M&G’s ‘PC Review’: How the internet changed 20 years ago

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Apr 2014

Twenty years ago this week, South African newspaper readers were given their first in-depth exposure to the internet by the Weekly Mail.

Honour outs revolutionary newsman

Article Anton Harber - 21 Nov 2013

Founding co-editor of the "Weekly Mail" Irwin Manoim has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Wits University.

Looking back to where it started

Article Reg Rumney - 26 Apr 2013

The founder of the M&G Investing in the Future Awards, reports on how they have kept pace with the changes in corporate social responsibility.

Cartooning no fun for Kentridge

Article Sean Otoole - 25 Feb 2011

Famous artist William Kentridge's brief stint as a cartoonist for the <i>Weekly Mail</i> was marked by trepidation.

Forging the media’s new guard

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Nov 2005

<i>Weekly Mail</i> recruits were poverty stricken, persecuted and despised, writes Anton Harber, but those who stayed afloat are now shaping the news.

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Editorial: Hell of a year for a birthday

Thank you for supporting our journalism

1985: The year it all started

We do what we do because of you

Shaun Johnson: Charm without the smarm

A Sona to reflect troubled times

What we do is important. Trust us

Thandi Modise, the knitting needles guerrilla

Editorial: Turning the page at the M&G

M&G needed now just as much as it was 30 years ago

M&G’s ‘PC Review’: How the internet changed 20 years ago

Honour outs revolutionary newsman

Looking back to where it started

Cartooning no fun for Kentridge

Forging the media’s new guard

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