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Mail & Guardian, 28 Aug 2026

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ArticleNUMBERS OF THE WEEK

The num­ber of sus­pects arres­ted in con­nec­tion with the killings of 18 ele­phants in Kenya’s Amboseli eco­sys­tem, The Inde­pend­ent reports. The ele­phants were found dead between June and July, with ini­tial the­or­ies blam­ing...

NUMBERS OF THE WEEK

Article57

Is Nthati Moshesh’s age on 28 August. The South African actor cel­eb­rates her birth­day with Amer­ican coun­try singer LeAnne Rimes and Brit­ish musi­cian Florence Welch.

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Article‘We’re pris­on­ers in our own homes’

Res­id­ents of West­bury, west of Johan­nes­burg, say years of prom­ises to tackle gang­ster­ism and gun viol­ence have done little to make their com­munity safer. Many of them find them­selves pris­on­ers in their own homes. Their com­plaints were...

‘We’re pris­on­ers in our own homes’

ArticleSugar sec­tor feels the squeeze

The depart­ment of trade, industry and com­pet­i­tion (DTIC) has remained tight-lipped about which South African com­pan­ies sourced sugar from Brazil, Thai­l­and and India, while the gov­ern­ment’s response to mount­ing pres­sure from rising imports...

Sugar sec­tor feels the squeeze

ArticleCele tears into apartheid oper­at­ives

Former police com­mis­sioner and min­is­ter Bheki Cele appeared before the Truth and Recon­cili­ation Com­mis­sion (TRC) Cases Inquiry also known as the Khampepe Com­mi­s­ion in New­town, Johan­nes­burg, on Thursday where he was ques­tioned about his...

Cele tears into apartheid oper­at­ives

ArticleThe bluebuck, rebuilt

Hun­dreds of years ago, the sil­very-blue bluebuck roamed the coastal grass­lands of the West­ern Cape. But by about 1800, it had van­ished forever. Research sug­gests that its small, isol­ated pop­u­la­tion was vul­ner­able to extinc­tion before...

The bluebuck, rebuilt