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Weekend Post became a stage for the arts over the years, showcasing home-grown talent, international actors and singing sensations, renowned theatre performances and behind-the-scenes drama.
Engaging and sumptuously illustrated travel writing was an important part of Weekend Post’s reader offering every Saturday. Former Weekend Post features editor Brett Adkins remembers the Explorer series of travel features with much fondness. “The Explorer series came about as a result of brainstorming sessions when Weekend Post was being totally revamped — and now published on a Saturday morning as opposed to afternoon and evening — in 2003,” Adkins said.
Charmain Naidoo was Weekend Post’s managing editor from 2006 to 2010, and was instrumental in establishing the MyWeekend leisure supplement which had a great following in those years.
A newspaper article is often only as good as the picture that accompanies it, and over the years Weekend Post has boasted a line-up of remarkable photographers to tell stories in images.
A holiday coinciding with the 1995 Rugby World Cup brought newspaper man Jeremy McCabe back to his home province of the Eastern Cape after several years in New Zealand, and would spark a return to his Weekend Post roots.