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latest news & developmentsAfrica must rise, for good
Our simple argument is that the Second Scramble for Africa shouldn’t happen on our watch when we have so much at our disposal to avert this age-old plunder. It is a shameful…
Mozambique target of debunked narrative
There is no evidence that the Mozambican state committed abuses in Afungi
Flight Centre’s year in travel 2024: where you went and where you’re headed next…
Your ticket to insider travel scoops, data bites, and expert predictions for the year ahead
A reshoot of Ernest Cole
Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself
Bickering and ‘cold sweat’ as Paris built its Games
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo vetoed TotalEnergies as a sponsor for the Olympics
South Africans discover the world via marathons
Athletes are packing their trainers to explore foreign cities
One Show Two Takes: Emily in Paris Season 3
It’s still shallow and unrealistic, and the acting is not the best, but the show makes for great vacuous escapism
10 things you probably didn’t know about Notre Dame
As a new film attempts to explain the events of the 2019 blaze that damaged parts of Notre Dame, Bongeka Gumede looks into the building’s history
COP27: SA receives an extra $10-bn to shift from fossil fuels
But the funding will come at a price, given that the $8.5-bn pledged last year, was mostly in the form of loans
Future of our world is in our hands
Education is key to giving our children a chance to navigate, and thrive in, a complex modernity
Total knew it was fuelling climate change since the 1970s
New scientific research shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation
The Portfolio: Breeze Yoko
Breeze Yoko’s poster for Denderah Rising finds new life as the cover for Georgia Anne Muldrow’s VWETO III
Covid compels a rethink on cities
Far from rendering major cities obsolete, the pandemic forced the mayor of Paris to quickly implement pedestrianisation as an urban design innovation. With thoughtful planning,…
The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home
Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence
Turkey goes on charm offensive in West Africa
The foreign minister’s visits to Mali, Senegal and Niger leverage colonial-era hurts to pave the way for Turkey’s investment in francophone Africa