CULTURE
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.
Culture
December 18, 2025
4 min read
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.
Culture
December 7, 2025
5 min read
From North Korea to South Africa: The Cost of Social Engineering
Could South Africa’s BEE laws be holding back the very people they aim to help? In this revealing piece, we explore how BEE mirrors North Korea’s songbun system and why social engineering is hurting society.
Columns
December 6, 2025
5 min read
Books to Read Next if You Loved Iain M Banks’s Culture Series
A guide to the best writers carrying forward the scale, imagination, and moral intensity that made Iain M Banks’s Culture series unforgettable.
Culture
December 2, 2025
4 min read
Books to Spark a Harry Potter Fan’s Next Reading Adventure
If you’re looking for your child’s next read after Harry Potter here are some tips for you.
Culture
November 27, 2025
2 min read
Total Surveillance: Living Under Watchful Eyes in North Korea
Communism begins with promises of liberation, equality, and shared progress, yet it so often ends with the human spirit crushed. This series examines how surveillance and ideological control consume the individual when the state demands total devotion.
Culture
November 22, 2025
9 min read
AI Cover Art Controversy Knocks Two Leading Authors Out of New Zealand’s Top Book Prize
Use of AI sinks chances of two authors in NZ literary awards
Culture
November 20, 2025
2 min read
The Dangerous US Misread of South Africa
Frans Cronje told Makin Sense that Washington is getting its analysis of South Africa wrong and risks misunderstanding the country’s politically moderate, culturally conservative majority.
Global
November 17, 2025
3 min read
From The Widow to the Best Next Legal Thrillers for Grisham Fans
If you like John Grisham look out for these authors.
Culture
November 16, 2025
4 min read
The Revolution Arrives – North Korea’s Birth from Ruins and Hope
Communism always begins with fine words – liberation, equality, progress – and ends with the crushing of the human spirit beneath the state. This series revisits the revolutions of the past to remind readers what happens when the individual yields to ideology.
Culture
November 15, 2025
7 min read
