Tracing Africa’s ancient copper trade routes
Across southern Africa, long-disappeared trade routes once crisscrossed the region and now researchers are following them, thanks to the copper these age-old traders left...
Amazon cranks up AI competition against Microsoft, Google with new cloud...
Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing division this week released a suite of technologies aimed at helping other companies develop their own chatbots and image-generation services...
Policy flip-flops expose political ‘degeneration’ of ANC
OPINION: The recent flip-flopping of South Africa’s governing party, the ANC, on several key policy issues has been baffling, writes Trevor Ngwane.By Trevor Ngwane...
SA walks investment tightrope as it secures new pledges
The South African government has had to walk a tightrope this week, between securing new pledges for investment without threatening existing lucrative investment in...
EXCLUSIVE: Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s 5-star affair
Corrupt officials from G4S, a company managing the Mangaung maximum security prison in Bloemfontein, used to sneak Facebook rapist Thabo Bester out of the...
No matter how evil a son is, a mother’s love knows...
LETTER: In a heart-wrenching interview, Thabo Bester’s mother, Maria Mabaso, poured her heart out, saying she longed to see her murderer and rapist son...
Mbeki’s Phala Phala censure ‘too late’ to save ruling party
OPINION: Former president Thabo Mbeki’s letter to ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile is arguably the most stinging rebuke of the ANC under President Cyril...
Rants and Cents: Taxing times, don’t make for the perfect crime
OPINION: Tax Freedom Day is a reference to a day that a country has earned enough money to pay for running its government in...
Carping Point: It’s the New Dawn – and it remains dark
OPINION: Stage 6 load shedding? We should consider ourselves fortunate we haven’t got to Stage 12. But don’t hedge your bets, we’ve got winter...
Go through the motions, and nothing changes
GREY MUTTER: Once again I need to fill bottles, barrels and containers with water, seeing as there is yet another water shutdown looming, with...
