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Crime lit in South Africa – a new phenomenon
The new phenomenon of crime fiction on the local literary scene may well help to boost the culture of reading in South Africa.
• New life for indigenous classics
All eyes on Spud: The Movie
Groundbreaking TB drug trial under way
SA women strip off for worthy cause
When the women of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape get down to the bare essentials in an eye-catching Guinness World Record attempt on 23 October, they will be showing not only oodles of flesh but also a collective spirit of caring.
Paddlers in the pink for cancer
The bustling Eastern Cape agricultural town of Cradock is set to be tickled pink over the first weekend in October as Fish River Canow Marathon entrants raise funds for cancer.
• Transforming lives through sport
Alice Walker to explore Biko ties
Prof Alice Walker has arrived in South Africa to deliver the 11th annual lecture honouring the late Stephen Bantu Biko, an anti-apartheid activist and leader who founded the Black Consciousness Movement.
• Biko's legacy lives on
Family makes M’hudi Wines a winner
A brief history of the Fifa World Cup
A lot happened in 1930. Constantinople was renamed Istanbul, the planet Pluto was discovered, and Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple novel rolled off the presses. And world football as we know it emerged with the inaugural Fifa World Cup in Uruguay.
• A brief history of Bafana Bafana
SA’s ‘zef’ trio thrash music scene
With catchy and crude beats, pre-pubescent bodies, gold teeth, tattoos and mean-looking mullets, hilarious trio Die Antwoord have become one of South Africa’s hottest – and most unlikely – exports.
