“I Don’t Know What I Did to Deserve…

Children stand at the door of a looted shop in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Photos: Masego Mafata Looting and protests from the weekend continued in Alexandra, Johannesburg, on Monday. Reports initially linked the protests to calls for…

We tried making Pepper Lunch at home with…

When the new tightened measures in Phase 2 (Heightened Alert), dining in is no longer allowed. Armed with a Pepper Lunch recipe from TikTok, I decided to make my own lunch to see if it…

Being a helper in S’pore: I take care…

PERSPECTIVE: "[My children] are growing up without knowing me as their mother, without experiencing the love and care that I am giving to other people’s children whom I work for here in Singapore." Three years…

‘I felt like this wasn’t me’: S’porean, 23,…

Like any other millennial-slash-Generation Z individual these days, I was scrolling through TikTok in the wee hours of the morning, fingers on automatic, swiping up through a mind-numbing combination of comedy skits, relationship advice and…

This graph shows how petrol taxes have ballooned…

Civil society group Outa has published a breakdown of South Africa’s fuel taxes as the country faces record high petrol prices. In an opinion column for the Daily Maverick, Outa chief executive Wayne Duvenage said…