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SOCIAL NOURISHMENT: Child hunger drives Free State community to step in when school meals stop 23rd August 2026
In Nyakallong, Free State, community caregivers at We Care Daycare centre are keeping their kitchen doors open to ensure local children get fed during school holidays. By stepping in when government school-feeding programmes pause, the centre combats severe holiday hunger driven by widespread regional unemployment.
BOOK EXCERPT: ‘No time for tears’ on Robben Island: When Lilian Ngoyi visited Madiba in prison 23rd August 2026
Martha Evans’s biography of anti-apartheid activist Lilian Ngoyi, one of the leaders of the 1956 Women’s March, is published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the march. This excerpt details her visit with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island in 1973.
THE CONVERSATION: SA scientists decode cancer’s ‘cloak of invisibility’ in ‘major leap forward’ 23rd August 2026
A team at the University of Cape Town has successfully recreated and modelled the process by which tumours bypass the body’s natural defences.
FINANCE WELLNESS COACH: There’s a case for giving children an early inheritance 23rd August 2026
You may want to give surplus money to a child now if it will materially improve their life, but several considerations need careful assessment first.
HUNGER GAME: Gunner give it a go: Arsenal ready to ‘fight’ for more Premier League glory 23rd August 2026
England’s top-flight Premier League promises another exciting campaign this season.
Cost of winning: The big business of SA schoolboy rugby comes with red flags 23rd August 2026
From a booming talent pipeline to unprecedented investment, junior rugby is flourishing, but it does have troublesome aspects.
THE LOWLY NEWSPAPERMAN: Infantino’s rotten Fifa reign calls Motsepe’s morality into question 23rd August 2026
The stink of corruption engulfs Fifa under Gianni Infantino more than at any time during the tenure of the outsize ego that is Sepp Blatter. And as Patrice Motsepe’s bromance with the Italian blooms, Africa looks set to continue to be a Fifa vassal, totally bereft of dignity.
POETRY CORNER: Arrive at your own door: on feathered things and finally meeting the self 23rd August 2026
Being guided by hope, and not fear, we can liberate ourselves and each other.

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