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Because Katrina Esau is one of very few remaining speakers of the N|uu language, she decided to publish a children’s story in her mother tongue, saying it was a ‘matter of the heart’ for her. Photo: James Oatway/Gallo Images/Sunday Times

N|uu book waters the seed of the decolonisation project

Katrina Esau’s The Ostrich and the Tortoise aims to preserve N|uu for its next generation of speakers

Isolated: Hospital was a lonely place for Justin Sylvester, who probably contracted Covid-19 when he was in New York for business. (Delwyn Verasamy)

The recovered remain cautious

People who have survived Covid-19 are not going through life carefree. They are still taking all the preventative measures

Scatec Solar’s new plant near Upington

Scatec Solar begins another Upington project

When completed, the Upington solar power complex will provide clean energy for 120 000 households

ANC chairperson in Northern Cape, Zamani Saul, was also confident that the party would not lose it’s support base in the province. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Northern Cape prefers status quo

The DA is working hard at wooing the province’s voters, but its electorate would rather abstain than not vote for the ANC

During her oral submission

“Yes to expropriation” the general feeling at Upington public hearings

While there were those opposed to the proposed amendment, many spoke in favour of it

The Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling sets limits on the scope of an award for pain, suffering and loss of amenities. Photo: File

Dr Harry Surtie Hospital: Double-edged sword of technology

If the new Dr Harry Surtie Hospital has all the latest tech, why are patients complaining?

Share it or lose it — a familiar tale

Share it or lose it — a familiar tale

It’s an all too familiar South African story, one that involves a local politician, an ANC bigwig and a white businessman, writes <b>Mandy Rossouw</b>

Block’s ‘free guesthouse makeover’

Subcontractor ‘has documents’, but Trifecta denies renovations were paid by another project.

Plague of scorpions hits Kalahari town

Residents of the remote Kalahari desert town of Groot Mier in the Northern Cape are being plagued by scores of scorpions on the crawl.