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

Missing the pot

Hemp vs cannabis: policy tangled in the weeds

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

Cut-price space travel

The mission to rescue stranded astronauts reveals rocket rivalry

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 ...

NHI still in ICU

DA says there was a deal as health minister Aaron Motsoaledi fights on

Africa’s cranky Uncle Sam

The late former president of Namibia was a leader of liberation but no defender of liberties