Conspiracy theories on social media are stoking the fires of fear around the Covid-19 inoculation...
Two truths: We forget them and think of everyone as pal - and Savanna knows it; Distell's stance of end justifies means deserves a smelly Onion...
Brendan Seery 20 Apr 2021
Why do people believe conspiracy theories, and who is in the wrong?
Brett Rogers 18 Mar 2021
In the second century, the Antonine plague killed millions of people across the Roman empire. Opportunists and madmen postulated a variety of self-serving, nonsensical theories for this pestilence - and this caused great anxiety for Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
GroundUp Editors 13 Jan 2021
"Unprecedented", "coronavirus", "Covid-19", "lockdown", "essential workers", "remote work", "unmute", "pandemic". These are just a few of the words that a year ago we wouldn't think that we would be using in our daily conversations today...
Three years after their last full-length album, Fokofpolisiekar has returned with a new four-track album titled Kajuitkoors (Cabin Fever)...
Former president, Thabo Mbeki, has once again raised ire of HIV/Aids medico-scientific community with his latest missive...
Jim Carrey flew his anti-vaccination colours on Twitter last week, railing against new Californian laws...
Michael J. I. Brown and Geraint Lewis 6 Jul 2015
If I was a theoretical physicist by the name of Dr Sheldon Cooper and my qualification cabinet boasted a BS, MS, MA, Ph.D and Sc.D, my review of the sixth annual Cape Tattoo Expo would read simply this: "buzzinga".
Brandon Williams 5 Mar 2014
The public outcry against the tolling of Gauteng's highways was related to the tariffs, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday (27 November).
The Daring Doccies Documentary Film Festival, featuring a range of thought-provoking, controversial and award-winning international documentaries, will take place at the Labia Theatre, 68 Orange St, Gardens, Cape Town, between 25 November and 1 December, 2011.
KFC yesterday, Wednesday, 14 November 2006, allegedly became the world's first brand visible from outer space. Measuring a record-breaking 87 500 square feet, KFC unveiled the new face for Colonel Sanders and marked the official debut of a massive global re-image campaign that will update 14 000-plus restaurants in over 80 countries over the next five years.
In the past week, etv's 3rd Degree aired an interview done with Monica Lewinsky by ITV recently. The subject was obvious, but the content showed a more mature and wiser person than the young woman that was ravaged and savaged by the White House media machinery just a few years ago.
Richard Clarke 12 Jul 2004
TVAfrica, Africa's premier free-to-air television network, launched the spring season from the 11th August with a series of Guinness TV three-hour specials from 8 o'clock to midnight. The series is broadcast on Sundays in English speaking countries and on Fridays in Francophone Africa.
The brand that surrounds South African sports fans has been seriously tarnished. Some people laughed and others were embarrassed at the sight of an overweight and over beered Bok supporter answering the call to arms on Saturday.
Richard Clarke 15 Aug 2002