What South Africa is watching right now
CCTV footage, a tracking device and a very calm hijacker. What actually slowed them down, and the one habit that got the car back.
R14 000 starting capital, one container, thirty days. Here is the daily ledger, the mistakes, and what actually made money.
The official video for Mona Lisa, shot across Maboneng and the Durban beachfront. Produced by Mzansi Mix Studios.
We installed a mod that turns every block into a minibus taxi. It broke the world in 40 seconds and we kept playing anyway.
Producers in Soweto and Pretoria explain how the sound moved from 112 BPM to the new 118 template, and why the flute is back.
A 22-year-old workhorse with 480 000 km on the clock. What it costs to keep one of these on the road for another decade.
Recorded at the Cape Town Comedy Club. A tight seven minutes about family, catering and the politics of seating charts.
Forty-eight minutes of high-tempo amapiano, built for the treadmill and the last set.
Slovo is the second single from the upcoming Mzansi Mix compilation. Stream it everywhere from Friday.
No spoilers past the prologue. We test the taxi mechanic, the soundtrack and the localisation — and yes, the minibus taxi is drivable.
Data, airtime and electricity — the smallest margins in the country. A month of real transactions, fees included.
Same load, same road, same driver. We take both bakkies up the Sani Pass and measure fuel, comfort and how much the warranty actually covers.
R500 buys a surprising amount of phone in 2026. We tested five budget devices for a month — calls, WhatsApp, banking apps and battery life.
Two bedrooms, a generator, a levy that hurts and a view you pay for. No staging, no music, just the agent's real numbers.
Universities are warning of a funding gap before the end of the academic year. We break down the numbers, who is affected and what students can do this week.
Chuck, short rib and flat chicken. The heat, the salt and the rest time that separates good braai from great braai.
Themba started tutoring five children under a tree in 2019. Today his Saturday classes run in three halls. A short documentary about what one person can hold together.
Traffic on the M1 is a state of mind. Fifty-six minutes of deep house to make it bearable.
Recorded live at the Soweto Theatre. Contains strong language and one extremely accurate impression of your aunt.
Two hours of soul, jazz and slow house for a Sunday that refuses to end. Recorded live in Melville.
R199 earbuds claim to be 'AirPods quality'. We measured latency, battery drain and call quality against a real pair — the results are not close.
Alibaba, a freight forwarder and R38 000 at risk. The full landed-cost breakdown, customs codes and the sample that never arrived.
Fifty stalls, one queue worth joining. We follow three cooks from prep to close, and eat far too much bunny chow.
Starting with a R12 000 transfer budget and a board that expects top four. Season two is where it gets interesting.
Two weeks with the Xiaomi 17T Pro: the camera is excellent, the software is not. Full review with local pricing and network testing on Vodacom and MTN.
We ran the numbers on a R1.4m Bond Street apartment against renting the same unit — with rates, levies and a realistic exit in year five.
A full DIY install with a licensed electrician signing off. Real consumption numbers after 30 days, including the geyser mistake.
Three rounds down on two scorecards, and then the fight turned. Full breakdown of the finish and what it means for the title picture.
What the national pass rate actually counts, how the provinces compare, and the three numbers the headlines leave out.
Battery health, thermals in a Durban summer and whether 16 GB is still enough for a working developer.
Region locks, language support and the features that quietly do nothing here. Tested on iPhone 17 and an M4 iPad.
We went through 400 Black Friday adverts so you don't have to. Six deals are genuinely good, the rest are recycled October prices.
Gas, cast iron and a pressure cooker: the three changes that keep dinner on the table when the power is off for six hours.
A recruiter reads five real CVs live and explains exactly where she stops reading — and what gets a call back in 2026.
Six people, one hatchback and the Sani Pass road. Where to stop, what it costs and whether one tank is realistic.
A substation, a ripple relay and a whole street switching on at once. The engineering behind the surge that kills your fridge.
We gave three AI tools the same stack of receipts and asked for a submission-ready return. SARS's own guidance disagrees with all three.
Rates, bond approvals and the areas where rental yields still beat the repo rate. A frank conversation with two bond originators.
A cheap mini PC, 16 GB of RAM and an open-weight model. Setup, real tokens per second and where it falls apart.
Four coding spaces in Soweto, Khayelitsha and Umlazi that are training the next thousand developers without a single government grant.
Every flagship now ships without a charger. We added up what a compatible 67W brick actually costs in 2026 — and which brands still include one.
Thandi built a booking app used by 400 salons without a cent of funding. We talk pricing, cold calls and the two rewrites she regrets.
The Free State Department of Education has confirmed that a 17-year-old learner was expelled after 38 unexplained absences this term. The family says the school never contacted them. We speak to the learner's guardian and the department's spokesperson.
Johannesburg's last vinyl pressing plant is running three shifts again. We visit to find out who is buying records in 2026.
90 minutes of crowd noise, goals and one very confident man with a vuvuzela. Live from the stands.
Live from the Cape Town City Hall. Analysis from our economics desk as the finance minister delivers the 2026 budget.