South Africa Mail & Guardian
Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:56:17 +0000Translating academic work into societal value
South Africa is not failing to educate – it is failing to convert education into outcomes.
Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:02:33 +0000Tongaat Hulett gets lifeline as court grants delay in liquidation bid
Tongaat Hulett has been granted a temporary reprieve from liquidation after the Durban High Court approved an adjournment, giving business rescue practitioners time to finalise a recovery plan backed by billions in IDC funding
Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:41:35 +0000Don’t ask if AI will take your jobs, ask who wants it to
The real challenge is not how to stop AI, but how to ensure that its power is shaped in the public interest.
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:35:00 +0000Litchi HOV on dance, inheritance and refusing to quit
A deeply personal portrait of Litchi HOV, the award-winning choreographer turning movement into a language of memory, resilience and generational change
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:35:00 +0000Exclusive: Club Med deal exposes IDC governance failures
Allegations of governance failures have emerged over the IDC’s involvement in a R2.1bn Club Med Tinley leisure development
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:35:00 +0000Becoming umwana – a son: Part 2
The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to work, returning home, sitting down to eat. These things coexisted
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:25:00 +0000What does it mean to forgive? A play asks, 30 years after the TRC
Drawing from archives and lived experience, the international production probes the emotional and political complexities of reconciliation in a fractured world
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:20:00 +0000EMPD and the missing R14m lithium
The Madlanga Commission has heard evidence of a metro police operation in which the precious metal was seized but then vanished
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:20:00 +0000Malema avoids jail for now
The EFF leader will appeal his five-year prison sentence after a court upheld his conviction for firing a rifle at a political rally, while granting leave to challenge the punishment
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:20:00 +0000Africa’s unfinished reckoning
The question is not whether the world recognises the genocide against the Tutsi. It does. The question is whether the continent has claimed it — intellectually, historically and in its understanding of itself