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14 days ago

‘Is there a place for the poor?’ Artists and activists try to revive Johannesburg, crumbling City of Gold

Issues around basic services, corruption and class trouble vibrant Johannesburg, which this year hosts the G20 summit

Bethabile Mavis Manqele mops the veranda of the house she has lived in for most of…

15 days ago

Peri-peri patron: how Nando’s amassed a huge collection of South African art

Chicken chain has been buying up art since 2004, which it displays on walls of its restaurants

On a weekday lunchtime the Nando’s restaurant in Maponya Mall in Soweto, the sprawling former Black towns…

20 days ago

Poppy Okotcha: ‘Plants taught me about myself’

In her verdant garden in Devon, the model turned gardener talks about decay, family roots and living a wilder life

It is not by design that I have come to meet the Devon-based ecological gardener Popp…

53 days ago

54 days ago

‘If you don’t get early years right, children are unlikely to catch up’: why South Africa is trying to reboot its school system

With 80% of 10-year-olds unable to read for meaning, the government is prioritising literacy and numeracy among pre-school pupils as it tackles its education problems

When she noticed children hangin…

72 days ago

Shocking moment man escapes magistrates' courtroom after climbing out a WINDOW and lowering himself down the building... then fleeing on foot

Onoshana Thando Sadiki dramatically escaped from Jeppe Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday as he was supposed to be facing criminal proceedings for housebreaking and theft.

86 days ago

Rubio accuses South Africa of ‘anti-Americanism’ and snubs G20 meeting

US secretary of state repeats remarks by Donald Trump about ‘expropriation of private property’ in African nation

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has accused South Africa of “anti-Americanism”…

87 days ago

3 months ago

The kindness of strangers: I lost my Kindle – and the person who found it loved my book collection

We exchanged emails and arranged to meet. One friend quipped that if we got married it’d make a magnificent story

By the time I’d realised my Kindle was go…

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