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The Western Cape Reading Strategy 2026 – 2030 was launched on 14 March 2026 with one ambition: Every child should read for meaning by age 10 by 2030. Photo: Flickr

A chance to help children on World Read Aloud Day

Stories can help us find our way back to health, hope and possibility

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Here’s the story: The psychological effects of the pandemic on children

A free webinar discusses how to help young people struggling to find their place in the new normal without classmates and friends

Shree Laxmi’s walk in the City of Gold

What would the Goddess be met with, were she to walk the streets of Johannesburg?

Lindiwe Zulu has been counted as among President Zuma’s fiercest defenders as the party’s factional battles have intensified throughout this year in the run-up to the elective conference.

For my parents, for my witnesses

A meditation on losing parents, spirituality and how love is a verb, as expressed with potato-based food.

Klaas Priega tells the story of the man who cursed the wind at Vanwyksvlei.
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​Heard the one about the Spaniard, Ouma and the lion?

A new book allows insights into the lives of the first inhabitants of the Bitterpits, the Karoo’s harshest region, through the stories of the /Xam.

​How folktales grown in new soil can paint a less Grimm picture for our dancing girls

The classic Grimm fairy tale’s theme of wild teenage abandon is echoed in popular culture, but the moral of the story is luckily changing.

Mombelli’s stories from the heart

Carlo Mbombelli, a jazz enthusiast and lecturer. If he’s not busy teaching, he can be found on stage and in studio.

The struggle of life after apartheid

The struggle of life after apartheid

Achmat Dangor’s tradition of looking below the superficial continues.

Voices of Africa is the M&G’s new blogging platform.It showcases stories of life in different parts of the continent that the world doesn’t hear often enough.

Introducing Africa’s voicebox

Voices of Africa is the M&G’s new blogging platform.It showcases stories of life in different parts of the continent that the world doesn’t hear often enough.

My heart touches your heart

Once quite long ago, in a land not so far away, there lived a young woman called Gcina Mhlophe.