Giving children a day of fun

Staff Reporter|Published

Treat every day like it is Mandela Day, was the recurring message at two children-focused Mandela Day events in Pietermaritzburg. Children from the Joseph Baynes ...

At Virginia motel, an odd guest checks in: A six-foot alligator

Washington Post|Published

Six-foot alligator checks into a motel.

Salmon cakes with cabbage salad are as exciting as they are bold

Washington Post|Published

Bold salmon cakes.

Businesses urged to have emoji policy

Wendy Jasson Da Costa|Published

The danger of emojis and how they are used.

Epic Eric: how books took him from the streets to success

Wendy Jasson Da Costa|Published

How books changed one man's life.

AI fuels surge in sophisticated cybercrime

Staff Reporter|Published

AI-powered scams are increasingly targeting individuals and financial systems.

Do women really need more sleep than men?

The Conversation|Published

If you spend any time in the wellness corners of TikTok or Instagram, you’ll see claims women need one to two hours more sleep than men. But what does the research ...

Trump wants his Coca-Cola made in Mexico

The Washington Post|Published

Mexican Coke, which is made with real sugar, unlike the US version sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, has many fans - and American soda drinkers might soon ...

Rituals, fear and blood: the new face of SA’s gang problem

The Conversation|Published

This column unpacks the rise of occult gangs in the Free State, where ritual murders and demonic symbols aren’t urban legends — they’re part of lived experience. ...

Tunisian dog lovers push to save age-old desert hound

AFP|Published

Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long roamed desert plains, seemingly unaware ...

Dogs on the trail of South Africa's endangered tortoises

AFP|Published

Snout pressed to the ground, a border collie named Delta zigzagged through the shrubs on a private nature reserve near Cape Town, frantically sniffing for critically ...

Tariffs give the US’s only native caffeinated plant a shot at stardom

The Washington Post|Published

When the Sons of Liberty dumped over 92,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the passage of the wildly unpopular Tea Act of 1773, colonial Americans ...

The ghostly white plant that has sparked a war among foragers

The Washington Post|Published

Until a few years ago, most people who knew what a ghost pipe was had a degree in botany. The spindly stems of the parasitic species - which appear bleach-white ...

Forget the tennis finals. At Wimbledon this July, it’s pickleball.

The Washington Post|Published

On Day 4 of Wimbledon, some of the fans who queued up outside the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club to see Novak Djokovic take on Dan Evans might have heard ...

Deep Blue: Why we love the sea

Staff Reporter|Published

Veruska De Vita, a learner free diver and open-water swimmer has written a book exploring the magic of the ocean and why its calls to us.

Is a floral dress a political statement?

The Washington Post|Published

When the conservative youth group Turning Point USA was planning its recent Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Texas, organizers sent out a Pinterest mood board ...

Love note in a bottle found years later, an ocean away

The Washington Post|Published

It was September 2012 when Brad Squires and Anita Moran decided to cap off their impromptu romantic picnic on Canada’s Bell Island by flinging a bottle containing ...

Eight decades later, a Holocaust survivor reunites with his liberator

The Washington Post|Published

Jack Moran entered Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945 to help liberate more than 21,000 people imprisoned there. Among the prisoners was Andrew Roth, ...

Public tired of costly inquiries, says Free SA

Staff Reporter|Published

Free SA Questions Trust in New Corruption Inquiry