Saturday, September 19 2020
The Eclectic Weekend
12 GREAT READS FROM THIS WEEK'S TIMES SELECT CURATED FOR YOU
A man, an octopus and lessons for our corona lives
If this brilliant doccie is not about resilience in the face of great odds, then the message is lost upon us
We need a flesh take on a name labivores won’t have a beef with
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
Who needs Chiefs when we have the ANC’s own goals for comic relief?
Take the party’s Zim flight of fancy, a tragicomedy that would shock even the most banana of republics
The post-Madiba generation is fumbling the baton
That we’ve been retiring when it’s our turn to step up is not hard to understand
Don’t be smug, Thabo. You are partly to blame for the mess we’re in
Mbeki could have paved the way for a tolerable future, but he pitted the ANC against itself in pursuit of control
If EFF gets power it will ruin SA, starting with a gun to the ANC’s head
It merely has to ramp up victimhood to find favour with desperate voters, then squeeze power out of coalitions
Relief for girl’s family as her kidnappers sob at sentencing
Dad says family can finally ‘move on’, after a school teacher and her accomplices hear their fate
Realities clash as slain woman’s mom and killer’s dad hear his fate
The family of Chantelle Barnard, and that of her murderer, sit metres apart, in starkly different worlds
Court showdown looms over baboon in the burbs
City insists rogue male removed from Kommetjie threatened a troop’s wellbeing, but activists say he’s lonely
You could coin it if you cash in on the art of currency collection
Numismatic experts unpack the complexities of the value held by these talismanic objects
Duo is sewing seeds to unite a nation down to a T
Two local creatives have designed an inspiring collection of T-shirts to help create a functional SA
African films to stream now if you’re looking for cinematic wizardry
See for yourself why these movies are collecting awards at home and abroad