Cape Town's rental crisis, summer forecasts and mastering your December budget

The Weekend Wrap

Cape Town's rental problem, SA's summer forecast and how to master your December budget.

Are digital nomads driving prices beyond reach for local Capetonians?

Want to get tempers rising fast in Cape Town these days? Bring up the topic of digital nomads.

By Rebecca Davis

Cape Town’s rental crisis: are digital nomads driving prices beyond reach for locals?

Want to get tempers rising fast in Cape Town these days? Bring up the topic of digital nomads.

By Rebecca Davis

South Africa’s summer forecast – hot temperatures and uncertain rainfall patterns ahead for 2025

What’s in store for us for the next five months weatherwise? Hot days, rain later in the summer (hopefully) and a tentative and weak La Niña are on the horizon.

By Abigail Baard and Julia Evans

‘Kinship with the nonhuman’ — reflections on bike riding and being

In an era when many people are turning a blind eye to the human horrors of a genocide, are complicit in ecocide and normalising the abnormal every day, there’s clearly something going badly wrong with human compassion and solidarity. To rediscover our connections with one another, we need also to rediscover our connections to the earth.

By Mark Heywood

Families with children in hospital are suffering — help us give them a fighting chance

For families whose children are fighting severe medical conditions, cancer and broken bones, the past 12 months have pushed them close to ruin. You can help us help them.

By Estelle Ellis

We didn’t waste the load shedding crisis, but did we need to wait for it to happen?

Escaping the load shedding crisis created the strategic focus needed to implement solutions that have achieved the goal in a relatively short space of time. But did we need to wait for a crisis before we were galvanised into action?

By Mark Swilling

Surge in women’s sports viewership sparks expansion as 2025 promises unprecedented growth

There was significant growth in important sectors of women’s sport in 2024, and more gains are forecast in 2025.

By Reuters

‘Kinship with the nonhuman’ — reflections on bike riding and being

In an era when many people are turning a blind eye to the human horrors of a genocide, are complicit in ecocide and normalising the abnormal every day, there’s clearly something going badly wrong with human compassion and solidarity. To rediscover our connections with one another, we need also to rediscover our connections to the earth.

By Mark Heywood

South African municipal dumps are a mess, despite threats of court action

More than 80% of municipal dumps across the country appear to be flouting environmental laws and regulations. The Green Scorpions have opened more than 50 criminal cases, but it hasn’t led to an increase in compliance.

By Tony Carnie

’Tis the season to spend wisely — here’s how to master your December budget

As the festive season approaches and South Africans prepare to splurge on booze and chicken, financial experts urge a clever strategy: ditch the impulse buys and embrace a budget that stretches beyond the New Year, because nothing says holiday cheer like surviving January without a financial hangover.

By Lisakanya Venna

Black Friday: The facts and fiction of the shopping craze origins

While I stayed away from stores and malls on Black Friday, the origin of the term provides an opportunity to unravel fact from fiction and look at the way myths emerge.

By J. Brooks Spector

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