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The President’s message on the eve of the elections
Dear Fellow South Africans, On Wednesday 4 November this week, we will be holding local government elections. This is one of the biggest electoral contests in our country’s democratic history, with 546 parties and nearly 137,000 candidates. At a time when the...
Gugulethu Initiative Turns Train into Pop-up Poetry Space
By Zubeida JafferThe train glided out of Cape Town station at 11:35 on Saturday morning (24 October 2026), heading toward Nyanga with performing artists on board. In a short but memorable journey, assembled guests across three hired carriages were treated to inspiring...
Brazil prevails for now
By Tarik Cyril AmarIn Brazil, the incumbent left-wing president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – known simply as Lula – has decisively won a dramatic run-off election against his challenger from the right – and US favourite – Flavio Bolsonaro. As his de facto sponsor, US...
Hassan Howa, a sporting hero
By Zubeida JafferVeteran journalist, Dougie Oakes brings Hassan Howa’s courageous legacy to life in a page-turner volume gifted to South Africans and world sport. Hassan Howa, No Normal Sport, A Biography of his Life and Times, is not just an account of a man with a...
While Trump lobbied, Navi did not. Here is the story….
I am a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. There are five of us. Five people, appointed by a parliament most of the planet could not find on a map, who decide, once a year, which human being the world has agreed to call good. I know. I know. I think about it on...
The Bus Driver’s Daughter becomes first SA woman to win Nobel Peace Prize
By PiE Features DeskNavi Pillay’s Nobel win places South Africa in rare company, reaches back to apartheid-era courtrooms in Durban, and lands, with some irony, in the middle of Pretoria’s feud with Washington.She heard the news in a courthouse, which is fitting. On...
