The TikTok sensation who stole Stellenbosch’s heart
Stellenbosch’s latest local celebrity found his fame in an unlikely place – as a security guard for a Stellenbosch...
Category: Features
Story by Numbers
Professor Johan Fourie is an economist by trade – a numbers man. But this would be only half of...
Breaking from the past: the new Verwoerd legacy
Wilhelm Verwoerd navigates one of South Africa’s most controversial family legacies as the grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, who is...
Vision beyond sight: South Africa’s first blind barista
Red looks like the feeling against your fingertips when milk is being frothed. Brown resembles the smell of freshly...
South Africa cannot do without philosophy
After decades as a philosophy professor at Stellenbosch University, Anton van Niekerk reflects on his role as a critic...
The ‘hidden and nearly lost world’ of Renosterveld
Less than 10% of the Western Cape’s endemic lowland Renosterveld can still be found across the province. Fragmented in...
Soos ’n vel vir ink
In die gange van ’n hospitaal ontmoet die dokter en die digter. Albei probeer sin maak van die tekortkominge...
Inez du Toit: Modeontwerp en besigheid gaan oor impak
Inez du Toit, die direkteur van Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion Design, gesels oor haar lewensingesteldheid en hoe sy...
The quiet revolutionary
Timothy Peter Jenkin does not wish to be defined by his past, or so his friend, “Vicki”, says. He...
Michael van Niekerk wants South Africans to ‘Keep The Energy’
An activist fighting against gender-based violence, a UCT graduate, a fashion icon, an influential figure. Michael van Niekerk (he/him/they/them)...