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FLAGS across the UK are flying at half mast this weekend as the country mourns the death of the Queen’s “rock”, Prince Philip. His death was announced by the royal family yesterday morning and with this Operation Forth Bridge was set in motion, the m

SUNE Luus has the best figures in T20Is for SA with the 5/8 she claimed against Ireland in March 2016. PROTEAS Women’s stand-in captain Sune Luus believes the team is playing its best cricket and is quietly confident that it can mount a challenge at

THE Gauteng Department of Education has confirmed that two matric pupils from Parktown Boys’ High School have been suspended following a violent altercation at the school this week. “Two pupils have been suspended from the school following the alterc

GABRIELLE de Gama will never forget the day she was first bullied. The Joburg teen was in Grade 4 and had just moved to a new school when she was first targeted. “A girl put hate letters in my locker,” De Gama told the Saturday Star. This would mark

NORWOOD residents are up in arms over the possibility that one of the area’s oldest dwellings could be torn down and replaced by a mini complex. An application for the rezoning of the property, at 2 Nellie Road, was lodged on February 7, but resident

THE Mixed Martial Arts South Africa (MMASA) Amateur Championship kicked off in fine style at the AMMA Underground in Edenvale yesterday. Fighters from across the country arrived in Gauteng to compete over three days – in an elimination-structured eve

DE Villiers is comfortably a localised foreigner and no other foreign investment has ever enjoyed such support and loyalty from franchise owners. De Villiers has played for the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the past 10 seasons, having started his I

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I GREW up and lived most of my life on Gauteng’s East Rand but always wanted to live away from people, be close to nature and try to be as self-sustaining and sufficient as possible. In April 2019, my partner Donna Porterfield and I sold our house in

FIVE friends have created a community on a smallholding on the West Coast where they grow a sustainable food forest and minimise their environmental impact in a permaculture way of life. Five years ago, Ester Kruger went on a career development cours

VOLKSWAGEN set an interior benchmark with its fourth-generation Golf more than 20 years ago that had rivals, often unsuccessfully, scrambling to catch up. While this wasn’t the most dynamic vehicle around, the Golf 4 had a classy cockpit that looked

FOR travellers yearning for a laidback holiday with some picturesque views, then a trip to the beach somewhere in South Africa may be what the doctor ordered. South Africa is home to white sand and Blue Flag status beaches, countless photo opportunit

GARETH STOKES NOTHING riles a car owner more than an insurer’s decision to repair an accident-damaged vehicle with aftermarket rather than original equipment manufacturer (OEM) parts, but the practice is commonplace and, subject to circumstances, c

APART from the obligations that contractual retirement annuities (RAs) impose on you to keep contributing for the full term of the contract, there is a further downside to these products: their costs. Personal Finance found that the costs on a contra

THIS year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the SACP at the inaugural congress of the party held from July 30 to August 1, 1921. The party’s founding resolution was passed on the first day of the congress, July 30, 1921. The SACP became

NAMES are important. It’s a lesson I learnt when I was 7 years old and my mother found out I went by another name in school. It was a Friday afternoon and my mother had come to fetch me. She bumped into my classmate, Cyrilia, and asked her if she had