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• Thank goodness for those diabolical Afrikaners

  Last week the Thabo Mbeki Foundation released what it grandly describes as a monograph that purports to explain why South Africa, after 32 years of ANC governance, finds itself in its present dismal plight.

• El Niño and the borehole dilemma

  The area I live in has a pretty high water table. Many of the homes have boreholes, and this must be such an assurance for them with the expected water shortages and absence of rain that El Niño is threatening.

• Three years after October 7, peace remains out of reach

  Wednesday this week marked the third anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel that robbed about 1 200 people of their lives and ignited the Israel-Gaza war that has cost tens of thousands more lives and caused untold suffering and destruction.

• Protests continue in Durban and Johannesburg

  Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in the Durban and Johannesburg CBD among other areas on Friday morning to raise concerns over illegal immigration in the country, despite the government’s withdrawal of a directive to open the asylum application process for new applicants.

• Every life has a face

  Every morning and every afternoon, Durban drivers pass by numerous homeless people who find themselves reduced to a life where every day is a dire struggle. I have started to recognise the regular people along my new commute from Durban North to the Denis Hurley Centre in the heart of Durban.

• Durban celebrates Judge Pillay

  Clairwood is celebrating one of its proudest moments after Judge Navi Pillay, the legal trailblazer who grew up in the Durban suburb, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.

• Durban gears up for MTN8 Final

  Durban is preparing to welcome thousands of football fans as Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns go head-to-head in the MTN8 Final at Moses Mabhida Stadium today.

• SA heart pioneer Dr Willie Koen wins Lifetime Global award

  Having trained directly under Professor Christiaan Barnard, Dr Willie Koen has spent a career extending South Africa’s historic legacy of cardiac innovation.

• Best dressed celebs at the BoF 500 Gala

  When the world’s ultimate style arbiters gather in Paris, the red carpet isn’t just an entrance - it’s a high-stakes runway.

• Sunken Silk Road city reveals lost history

  The sun had barely risen, but diver Elizaveta Bodrova was already raring to plunge into the cold waters of Lake Issyk-Kul, where the ruins of a once-thriving city have lain submerged for centuries.

Featured documents

• SARS celebrates significant sentencing in R62m fraud case

  The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has welcomed the sentencing of the sole member of a close corporation involved in a R62 million Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud scheme, following a guilty plea. The taxpayer was sentenced to an aggregate of 25 years’ imprisonment, comprising 15 years for fraud,...

• Iran-US peace deal under strain

  Israel and Hezbollah agreed a ceasefire yesterday, a US official said, after deadly exchanges between the two sides in Lebanon put a deal to end the Middle East war under strain less than two days after it was signed....

• Court compels the state to address infrastructure failures

  Residents across South Africa face chronic infrastructure failures....

• It’s time to recognise gendered experiences of apartheid

  The commemoration of Women’s Day on August 9 and the development of a new international treaty on Crimes Against Humanity present us with a unique opportunity to acknowledge the specific experience of women under apartheid. This year is also an opportune moment to contemplate our understanding of...

• SA faces a new wave of express kidnappings as crime models collapse

  For generations, the word kidnapping in South Africa carried a highly specific, elite connotation. The crime was associated with high-profile industrialists snatched from suburban estates, international investors bundled into luxury vehicles, or tycoons held for weeks while transnational cartels...

• Vote to curb US military action in Iran

  The US House of Representatives has backed a resolution seeking to halt American military action in Iran – a symbolic move that deals a political blow to US President Donald Trump as efforts to find a deal with Tehran stagnate....

• When will a national crisis produce a national response?

  at least nine women. At least nine bodies now forming part of an expanding police investigation in Ekurhuleni. And once again South Africans are being told that “no stone will be left unturned”....

• Why banning AI in the classroom isn’t enough to help poor reading

  Policymakers are sounding the alarm about AI and social media in schools, as PISA’s latest report confirmed that student performance in reading continues to decline. French Education Minister Édouard Geffray lamented the “cognitive destruction” of a generation, while his Spanish counterpart,...

• Another botched execution in US

  For months before the state of Tennessee planned to execute Christa Pike, she and her attorneys worried that the lethal injection could go wrong....

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