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James The Boptist: Some gentler output by the late great East Rand rock-wizard during a different but equally tumultuous time.

The bard would have found much drama in Eskom

Challenging myths about heterosexual white South African men, Koos Prinsloo published four books of short stories in 12 years.

He is a symbol of commitment and dedication to the cause of equity and justice in health for people. His life is a concrete example of selfless service of humanity, with an unflinching commitment to ease pain and suffering.

The journalist and short story writer dared, in the final years of apartheid, to depict gay sex and intimacy in a frank, sometimes brutal manner

A South African-born angel investor with a history bound up with Jacob Zuma and the Arms Deal, has stepped in to rescue the progressive Afrikaans publication from the brink of closure.

Like computers in the past five decades, nuclear power stations will become smaller and more affordable until, for example, a mine will be able to generate its own power with a reactor that can fit on a truck.

The family of Leila Lees, the Stellenbosch resident whose body was found in a vehicle submerged in water, just a few metres from her home, has described her as loving, warm and vivacious.

For the first time in seven years, SA artist, printmaker, political cartoonist and teacher Jeff Rankin is exhibiting a body of his colourful prints and paintings in his hometown. His solo exhibition opened in East London on Friday at the Ann Bryant Art Gallery and comprises a series of Rankin’s linocut artworks as well as ink and acrylic paintings.

Three years after being brought back as a digital publication that sought to be a home for progressive Afrikaans journalism, Vrye Weekblad is once again closing its doors.