Drone strikes show how cheap tech is changing the face of warfare
Last week’s attack by Ukraine on Russia highlights the rise of discount warfare
The R31m grocer’s daughter
‘Inflation’ is the buzzword of our times — never more so than when you pop down to your corner auctioneer for something to hang on the wall
Are we the butt of the joke?
Trump’s Oval Office ambush puts South Africa back in the spotlight — but can Ramaphosa deliver back home?
It’s a miracle: sea of justice parts
Someone is working in mysterious ways when a preacher with dozens of charges against him gets away scot-free
Death of a dog of war
Unlike some of his fellow African mercenaries, Simon Mann’s journey to Valhalla was nonviolent
South Africa’s retreat from the DRC: How budget cuts crippled our troops
Sending soldiers to make peace in one of the toughest neighbourhoods in Africa without air support was never going to end well
South Africans just singing — and swimming — in the rain
Water, water everywhere, high and risin’, as downpours continue on saturated soil
Far out, man
The Pretoria tech bro with a son called X Æ A-12 and a yearning to live on Mars would be a perfect fit with the planet K2-18b
Time for ‘anti-Gucci’ mayor to walk the talk
Anticorruption raids are all very well but voters tend to remember over-the-top cavalcades
Teaching history’s dark lessons
From Mapungubwe to Greefswald, the new curriculum proposal demands a deeper, more honest look at our past — and the courage to teach it
What the IOC got right — and what it still gets wrong
The International Olympic Committee voted for Africa — and a woman — but remains a club for the privileged
The joylessness of royal grifting
It’s tough out there, and sometimes even princes and kings need a little spare cash
The Kremlin’s kitchen boy
Oval Office ambush echoed the heated exchanges between Nixon and Khrushchev in a US show house in Moscow, in 1959
Calling the poll shots
Polls may have flaws, but some give a good idea of the lie of the political land
Don’t forget these Afrikaners
Contempt for Trump ‘refugees’ ignores the courage of the Dakar delegates, the Voëlvry movement, Breyten Breytenbach, Ingrid Jonker, Beyers Naudé — and so many ...
Africa’s cranky Uncle Sam
The late former president of Namibia was a leader of liberation but no defender of liberties
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