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The Weekend Witness, 18 Jul 2026

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Weekend edition of South Africa’s oldest continuously published newspaper.

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ArticleStuck together

If red is a warn­ing sign, then the fluor­es­cent glow of brake lights sig­nalling traffic is inter­preted by my brain as danger. Instead of pro­ceed­ing with cau­tion, my fight or flight response – which, in any other situ­ation would trig­ger fight...

Stuck together

ArticleQUOTES OF THE WEEK

NO DEAL “We’re as shocked as every­body else, but it comes with the ter­rit­ory and that’s one thing that people need to under­stand.” — NPA spokes­per­son Kaizer Kgan­yago on the col­lapse of Vusimuzi “Cat” Mat­lala’s plea deal this week. ‘WE...

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

ArticleIs the spirit of ubuntu begin­ning to fade?

As South Afric­ans com­mem­or­ates Man­dela Day, a press­ing ques­tion is sur­fa­cing in com­munit­ies, char­it­ies and homes: is the spirit of ubuntu — once a defin­ing national value, begin­ning to fade? Ubuntu, often described as “I am because we...

Is the spirit of ubuntu begin­ning to fade?

ArticleUMVUZO SECONDARY LIBRARY HANDOVER

The lib­rary project was made pos­sible through a part­ner­ship between M3 Digital Devel­op­ment Ser­vices, the Uni­versity of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and The Wit­ness, with the aim of pro­mot­ing a cul­ture of read­ing and improv­ing access to...

UMVUZO SECONDARY LIBRARY HANDOVER

ArticleSOUTH AFRICA’S ROOIBOS HEADS TO SPACE

Seeds from South Africa’s world-fam­ous rooibos tea are headed to the Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion to see how they respond to space con­di­tions, in the first such exper­i­ment for Africa, organ­isers announced on Thursday. Uniquely South African,...

SOUTH AFRICA’S ROOIBOS HEADS TO SPACE