Helderberg Nose Week
The lost and found of the covid pandemicDate: 10/11/2020
Statistics relating to worldwide deaths attributed to COVID-19, taken together with statistics relating to total deaths and...
The flying activistDate: 10/11/2020
Feted aerial and underwater photographer Jean Tresfon trains his focus on the City of Cape Town's contamination of its coastal...
Whiff of Approaching Disaster – a Book ReviewDate: 09/09/2020
Why is Asia steaming ahead while Africa remains mired in poverty?
Environmental impactDate: 20/01/2020
The more recent mobilisation of the National Prosecuting Authority to resume the previously abandoned prosecution of former...
Dedicated to land reformDate: 20/01/2020
President Ramaphosa's land advisor Professor Ruth Hall has plans for a happier land future - By Sue Segar...
We told you 16 years ago!Date: 20/01/2020
The more recent mobilisation of the National Prosecuting Authority to resume the previously abandoned prosecution of former...
Jurgen Witt, Museum Man of TzaneenDate: 25/07/2019
Despite having led a remarkably varied and eventful life, Jurgen Witt seemed destined to be a forgotten man who died...
Klein Constantia and the two exhumed baboonsDate: 22/07/2019
Klein Constantia on the slopes of the Constantiaberg in Cape Town is one of South Africa's most famously "green" wine estates...
Too rich to pay ratesDate: 10/07/2019
Howick-based property rates crusader Rob McLaren is doing a fine job of making sure he is on fewer Christmas card lists by asking
The people vs EskomDate: 10/07/2019
National Energy Regulator (Nersa) on whether Eskom should be given a 45% tariff increase over three years...
Time warp estate battles to hold clock backDate: 11/01/2019
Fierce rules, tough fines and a ferocious code of conduct keep the residents of this Gauteng paradise in order
Spies in the skyDate: 06/12/2018
During the Second World War, the British initiated a secret operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi...
Digging deep to save livesDate: 06/12/2018
Gift of the Givers is intervening urgently to try and save Sutherland. Generous Free State farmers have donated the first 500...
Doing healthy businessDate: 06/12/2018
But the natural-food industry does it, too - with superfoods such as agar berries, goji berries, quinoa, and chia seeds...
A Modern Galileo?Date: 09/04/2018
The backlash against Prof Tim Noakes’s ideas about nutrition is just the voice of vested self-interest argues Dr David Klatzow
Robbing the poor to make the rich richerDate: 26/03/2018
Billionaire Douw Steyn's 1 Life Insurance is tricking pensioners into paying their social grant money into policies ...
Knysna Fire: secret CSIR report bombshellDate: 26/03/2018
A secret internal investigation by scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research into the origin of the ...
Kindred spirits cross a religious divideDate: 12/10/2017
A unique friendship is developing between Dr Taj Hargey, founder of Cape Town's Open Mosque in Wynberg, and Rabbi Greg...
You're drinking the wrong milkDate: 12/10/2017
You're drinking the wrong milk. Researchers have been making alarming discoveries about dairy products...
How to save South AfricaDate: 03/06/2017
Moeletsi Mbeki says we need to take dramatic action to avoid social and political chaos. His new book postulates four possible...
Why South Africa should resist the power of Big SugarDate: 03/06/2017
The proposed tax on sweetened drinks will help improve public health despite overwrought opposition from industry...
Friends, Romans etc, print me your earDate: 28/06/2016
Animal rights movement's worries about the burgeoning field of medical practice that involves introducing human cells...
The secret RhodesDate: 03/02/2016
'I leave all my worldly goods in trust for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim...
Post-mortem for Post officeDate: 22/11/2015
Imagine SAA had a legislated monopoly on flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town, but suddenly had neither aircraft nor fuel...
Black Iike meDate: 18/10/2015
Transracial adoptive parents subjected to torrents of criticism. The transracial adoptions group is large, with over 6,000...
The road to ruin - Sanral's new route to DurbanDate: 21/09/2015
Sanral and its cronies are determined to build a wildly expensive new route to Durban, when sensible repairs would do the trick.
Nature strikes back at MonsantoDate: 31/08/2015
Suddenly stories about the declining effectiveness of GMO-seed giant Monsanto's flagship products, engineered to resist insects...
Too sweet to be trueDate: 16/08/2015
Popular new sugar-free, organic chocolate proves to be neither...
Child Alone - what happens to all the kids growing up alone?Date: 10/04/2015
Huge numbers of children growing up without parents or parental care pose a major threat to SA's future...
Post MortemDate: 31/01/2015
Recent mail strikes are ruining businesses - and could spell The End for the state-run service. Frustration with the Post Office..
