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- Top-selling used vehicles in 2024 on AutoTrader show a shift to budget-friendly optionsby Des Erasmus on March 30, 2025 at 11:00 am
Changing economic pressures are reshaping South Africa’s used car landscape, as buyers look for smarter, more practical choices
- Just too pricey: The VW T-Crossby Eyaaz on March 30, 2025 at 11:00 am
The vehicle is comfortable, but in a flooded compact SUV market, is the price tag justified?
- Budget: The prioritisation of telecoms and digital is welcomeby Des Erasmus on March 30, 2025 at 4:00 am
But there is concern about the proposed VAT increase and its possible effect this may have on the customers of members of the Association of Comms and Technology
- The shrinking African footprint of the Open Society Foundationsby Umamah Bakharia on March 29, 2025 at 4:00 pm
The George Soros-founded private funder says it does not have the capacity to fill the void left by USAid cuts
- Women are the vanguard of justice and emancipationby lauray@mg.co.za on March 29, 2025 at 11:14 am
Generations of women, from the United States’ Harriet Tubman to South Africa’s Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Uganda’s Winnie Byanyima have fought for human rights
- Safety comes with a price: Volvo EX90 first impressionby Eyaaz on March 29, 2025 at 10:00 am
Dubbed the safest Volvo ever made, has the brand pushed the price a little too high or is it merely to scare competitors?
- Textiles as testimony: Stitching together stories of struggle, survival and gendered historyby Des Erasmus on March 29, 2025 at 4:00 am
Textiles hold memory, meaning and power – challenging erasure, celebrating resilience
- Carnivore count: Uganda’s lions in decline, hyenas thrivingby Des Erasmus on March 29, 2025 at 4:00 am
When wildlife isn’t monitored rigorously, populations can disappear within just a few years, as tigers did in India’s Sariska tiger reserve
- Mbalula: No longer a need to chant ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer’by Eyaaz on March 28, 2025 at 4:32 pm
The ANC secretary general said the ANC would not water it down to ‘Kiss the Boer’, nor would it prescribe to other parties what they must sing