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• Telugu film Gulshan excited about debut with Samantha

  After making his debut in Kannada with Kantara and gearing up for his Tamil web series Legacy alongside R Madhavan, actor Gulshan Devaiah is now set to expand his horizons with his first-ever Telugu project with Samantha Ruth Prabhu.

• What has this year built in you? Wander through your inner house

  THIS year has asked something of all of us. More than a sequence of months, it may have felt like a building site, a place of dust, scaffolding, breakthroughs and quiet moments where truth arrived like a whisper.

• great actors Jackie pays tribute to Shashi

  Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff paid his heartfelt tribute to late star Shashi Kapoor, who was often referred as the “Robinhood of Bollywood”, on the eight anniversary of his death this week.

• An extract from ‘Promises and Peril: The South African Crisis’

  Poverty and Inequality

• global appeal Priyanka’s journey in international cinema

  Global head-turner Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who continues to straddle industries and continents, says her creative appetite is far from satisfied as she looks ahead to a new chapter in her international career.

• If South Africa is serious about growth, it must back its agri economy

  As South Africa works to strengthen its long-term economic resilience, it’s essential to recognise the critical role played by agriculture and agro-processing, sectors that underpin jobs, regional development and sustainable growth.

• The eagle and the fallen man: Ngcukaitobi’s brilliance, Mchunu’s undoing

  There are moments in the life of a nation when a single figure rises above the ordinary, and in our legal fraternity that figure is Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC. He is no mere advocate. He is an eagle, soaring with a vision and precision that few can match.

• Silent in Council, vocal in court: questioning the DA’s eThekwini legal challenge

  The Democratic Alliance has now filed court papers challenging the appointment process of three executive directors in the eThekwini Municipality.

• musical

  The highly anticipated war drama Ikkis officially kicked off its musical campaign with the release of Sitaare, sung by the maestro Arijit Singh.

• Buendia shatters Arsenal’s unbeaten run as Aston Villa steal dramatic win

  Emiliano Buendia ended Arsenal’s 18-match unbeaten run with a last-gasp strike that sealed Aston Villa’s dramatic 2-1 victory over the Premier League leaders at Villa Park yesterday.

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• Speaker a suspect in human smuggling case

  EIGHT years after former defence minister and now Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula allegedly smuggled a Burundian, Michelle Wege, into South Africa on an air force chartered jet, the police have named her as a suspect in the case....

• State capture, Covid excuses won’t mislead electorate

  In delivering this year’s State of the Nation Address (Sona), President Cyril Ramaphosa knew quite well that South Africans have had to contend with his “six years of broken promises”. They endured prolonged periods of load shedding, a stagnant and job- shedding economy, water shedding, and the...

• PAC leader Robert Sobukwe’s dream of a ‘United States of Africa’ lives on after his passing

  FEBRUARY 27 marked the passing of epoch-making anti-apartheid revolutionary and founder of the Pan- Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe....

• The weaponisation of intelligence in SA politics

  The recent revelation by former uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) secretary-general Floyd Shivambu, who claims he was sacked on the basis of a fake intelligence report, is neither new nor surprising in the context of South Africa’s post-apartheid political landscape....

• Any attempt to help Taiwan secede is ‘doomed to fail’

  AT A time of great geopolitical flux – decried by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a consequence of the “obsolete” global governance system – indications are that international peace efforts lag way behind a satiable appetite for conflict....

• The decline of the SANDF is a national security crisis

  The SANDF has long been a symbol of national pride, a force that once projected power across the African continent and played a pivotal role in peacekeeping missions. However, the current state of the defence force paints a troubling picture, one of decline, neglect, and vulnerability....

• Confronting SA’s captive lion industry

  Sustainable or ethical tourism is growing and, although South Africa relies heavily on Big 5 safari experiences, the sector will soon butt heads with travellers no longer prepared to countenance a captive lion breeding industry riddled with corruption, cruelty and exploitation....

• Food porn, parties, Scorsese! The best and worst of this year’s Cannes

  “I FEEL like I’m in a scene in a very elaborate, expensive James Bond movie,” a tuxedoed James Marsden said as he looked around, wide-eyed, at Thursday night’s annual Amfar gala at the Hotel du Cap, perfectly summing up how this year’s entire Cannes Film Festival felt to us plebes....

• UN MALI WITHDRAWAL Peacekeeping reform overdue

  On June 30, the UN Security Council terminated the mandate of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (Minusma), following a request by the Malian authorities. Resolution 2690, which was adopted unanimously, established specific timelines for the drawdown, withdrawal, and...

• Press Council’s stifling of dissenting voices a blow for free speech

  The global media landscape increasingly reflects Foucault’s Panopticon, a metaphor for how power can be exercised through constant surveillance and control. Today, this surveillance is not just literal but ideological – an all-seeing force exerted by corporate liberal media organisations and their...