WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: Nolan’s The Odyssey reimagines Homer in an epic worth the journey Japan orders evacuations as Typhoon Dolphin approaches, cancels 500 flights Meta ordered to pay $567 million in New Mexico for teen mental health fund Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia wounds 11 civilians as kingdom warns of wider threat Trump signs orders to limit US birthright citizenship, despite Supreme Court ruling AMABHUNGANE: Inside the SAPS investigation into former Prasa security chief Alexio Papadopulo CORRUPTION TRIAL : Ex-defence minister’s multimillion renovation payments ‘typical of money laundering’ — witness COP VS COP: Has the Madlanga Commission vindicated Mkhwanazi? The case against Shadrack Sibiya POLICING ANALYSIS: SAPS Amendment Bill preserves status quo, misses the ‘Madlanga moment’ How Wits should handle the fossil fuel divestment dilemma TRANSFORMER SAGA: DA seeks to hold mayor Lobishe personally liable for R25m Coega transformer lease FREED: Artist and murderer Zwelethu Mthethwa paroled after serving half his sentence ANALYSIS: Madlanga Commission: The Johnson-Khan-Perumal nexus under scrutiny Life in Trump’s backyard and surviving DJT’s insidious badgering of Washington, DC Nelson Mandela Bay is bent but not broken and can still be rebuilt SHORT-TERM LETTING: Foreign visitors vs locals — is Hill-Lewis finally addressing Cape Town’s inner-city housing squeeze? HEALTH HAZARD: ‘We stay in shit’ — Soweto awash in raw sewage as ageing system crumbles HISTORY MAKERS: ‘Springboks and All Blacks basically the same beast’ — Fitzpatrick HIDDEN LOSSES: Food waste in SA could be slashed by fixing one missing ingredient Watch – More than 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg buckling PULP FRICTION: Sappi’s Q3 slump reflects a cash squeeze, not the demise of SA’s paper industry AFTER THE BELL: Why my hope is springing eternal … once again GRITTY COMEBACK: SA survive group-stage scare to set up Wafcon quarterfinal with Morocco Two Chinese coast guard personnel marked as “martyrs” after South China Sea collision last year Russia steps up disinformation before German elections, security sources say India’s Modi turns to Instagram to woo young voters after Gen Z protest Europol says three arrested over suspected Syrian migrant-smuggling network TRIBUTE: Estelle Ellis, the Eastern Cape’s fiercest voice for the voiceless, has died Grade 1 at age 5: A policy built on unstable foundations US ambassador to SA finally shook the right hand WHAT’S COOKING: Chicken tenderloins with brown mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes and fettuccine SPOTLIGHT: After HIV, addiction is SA’s biggest battle and it’s being ignored BOOK EXCERPT: Karoo Saloon on Route 62: How a biker bar became a rock roadhouse route Mega Living Landscapes: A chance to put people back into nature in Eastern Cape Procurement corruption persists because the system is built for capture African doctors have a moral duty to speak up for patients who can’t Kruger elephant deaths: The question SANParks still hasn’t answered How to solve the problem of registered voters not casting their ballots The GMO myth — cheaper food, deeper hunger, greater corporate power Facebook obliterated 20 years of my online life for no apparent reason Why deepening intra-BRICS agricultural trade is essential for SA Triple storm hits markets as Fed, AI bubble and FX interventions collide Baked-in failure: Your bread is expensive because the state does not work Watch – The DA MP, Tony Leon’s lobbying firm and the SIM card law Fresh blow to vulnerable neurodiverse kids in battle with Joburg, Gauteng over unpaid bills How to ensure SA’s just transition is truly just African politics and the widening distance between power and consequence Watch — ‘Spies in America’: From South African freedom fighter to foreign agent Watch — Inside the capture of Cape Town’s Planning Tribunal Watch – Did SAPS Crime Intelligence burgle investigative reporter Marianne Thamm’s home?
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