CULTURE
Number of Marriages Decline in SA While Number of Divorces Remain Steady
Fewer South Africans are getting married, with white people the most likely to get divorced.
26.3.2026 |
Staff Writer
Paul Ehrlich was Responsible for Some of the Worst Modern Ideas
Richard Tren argues that Paul Ehrlich was not merely mistaken, but dangerously so, with ideas that helped legitimise some of the most destructive population control thinking of the modern era.
24.3.2026 |
Culture Correspondent
Faith Returns to the Centre of Western Society – In South Africa It Never Left
The long decline of religion across the West, a trend also seen among white South Africans, has been treated for decades as a settled fact – yet new evidence suggests the Western tide may be turning.
20.2.2026 |
Staff Writer
An Ode to Youth’s Folly – The Sunset Tree by The Mountain Goats
As someone not too far removed from my adolescence, I often cringe in thinking about how idiotic I was during that time. I’m sure to some extent we all do. However, I was lucky enough that the primary damage inflicted during my teenage years was due to my own foolishness. John Darnielle, the frontman of the band The Mountain Goats, was not so lucky.
25.1.2026 |
Gabriel Makin
Fallout New Vegas and the Ethics of Power
A video game that refuses easy answers, Fallout New Vegas forces players to choose what kind of power they will accept, and who must pay the price for order in a broken world.
24.1.2026 |
Warwick Grey
Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life and the Paradox of Existence
Gabriel Makin says you should start the year with Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life, a record that thrums with energy while staring straight at addiction, alienation, and pain and is a reminder that the sheer fact of being alive still matters and should be celebrated.
18.1.2026 |
Gabriel Makin'
King Sorrow, Joe Hill’s Latest, Proves the Real Horror is Living With What You Choose
Joe Hill returns to novel-writing with a slow-burn modern fantasy in which six friends summon a dragon to solve one crisis, only to spend decades paying the price.
11.1.2026 |
Lifestyle Desk
Six Shows to Watch If You Love the Cringe Genius of Peep Show
Peep Show lovers searching for more sharp dialogue, social discomfort, and lovable disaster cases are in luck. From political meltdowns, to surreal underachiever chaos, these six series capture the same awkward brilliance that made Jesse Armstrong’s cult comedy unforgettable.
4.1.2026 |
Staff Writer
DJ Warras Murder Sparks Outcry as Police Launch Manhunt
Police hunt three suspects caught on CCTV as DJ Warras is killed in a daylight ambush outside Johannesburg’s Carlton Centre.
18.12.2025 |
Warwick Grey
The Importance of Marriage: A Pillar of Societal Stability and Well-being
Many of the world’s pressing social issues may be best addressed by revisiting the importance of marriage as an institution – an idea that holds true not only in South Africa but across the globe.
7.12.2025 |
Family Correspondent
