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Runaway success: Gert-Johan Coetzee’s The Arrival collection at the opening of the South Africa Spring/Summer collections, which took to the runway on 24 April at in Johannesburg’s Hyde Park.

Gert-Johan Coetzee: The return of the self

The designer’s The Arrival opens South Africa Fashion Week, proving that fashion can be both a mirror and a vessel

South Africa’s education system leaves many children behind due to crumbling infrastructure, teacher shortages and a lack of educational progress. Photo:
(Darren Stewart)

South African children’s grim prospects in a failing education system

The government must prioritise providing quality education to all so no child is left behind and reverse the shocking lack of resources and school drop-out rate

The World Bank has said that it’s in South Afica’s best interest to move from coal to renewables. (Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

An Eskom-free future is on the cards

Corporates are already wheeling electricity and planning alternative power plants, and many households are using a mixture of energy sources

Many companies are revising their requirements as the pandemic continues to upset business plans. (Andrei Pungovschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Decline in demand for office space continues

Many companies are revising their requirements as the pandemic continues to upset business plans

Change agent: Zanele Njapha says jobs will be more hybridised, dispersed and flexible in the future

Q&A Sessions: Zanele Njapha, the ‘Unlearning Lady’

From primary school educator to boardroom re-educator, Zanele Njapha now teaches adults to transition to the workplaces of the future, honing skills all children have but many…

Mia Arderne is the author of Mermaid Fillet, a gangster story with a feminist bent. (Ramulas Burgess)

The List: Author Mia Arderne’s influences

Drawing from other mediums as well as literature, author Mia Arderne lets us in on her influences before and after writing ‘Mermaid Fillet’

Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa.
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Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning

Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa

Dream on: What if freedom meant a release from a cycle of trauma

Youth inspire reimagining the country

What if people not as herd voters or victims, but as individuals who belong to communities in dire need of infrastructure and education?

Swaps drop most in 6 weeks on inflation surprise

Derivatives used to speculate interest rates tumbled after South African inflation was found to be lower than expected.

Major Kobese said he got a call from Thami Msomi, telling him there was a Mr Chawla from Sahara and Infinity Media, who needed some issues with visas cleared up. (David Harrison/M&G)

‘South Africa is approaching its moment of reckoning’

Professor Adam Habib addressed the M&G Literary Festival on South Africa’s suspended revolution – past, present and future.

Most teachers attempt to grade objectively but many students feel it is unfair. Photo: File

The virtual cloud hangs over us

Technology was supposed to make things simpler. This was the famous promise of those laughable 1960s predictions about life in the 21st century.

Print a phone, or grow it in a pot

With a cellphone you can make calls, shoot photos and find your position on a map. And who knows, maybe one day you’ll be able to grow one in a pot.