South Africa

The shimmering innards – writer Antjie Krog’s ‘last’ genre-busting masterpiece

By Marianne Thamm

Maverick Life

Changes to speech and language can help detect Alzheimer’s early – here are five things to look out for

By Sarah Curtis

Maverick Life

Africa’s ‘sleeping’ language, |xam, has been written in stone at Oxford University

By Elleke Boehmer and Luan Staphorst

Maverick Citizen

Kneecap — a rambunctious riot of sex, drugs and Irish hip-hop

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

Maverick Life

How midlife became a crisis

By Matthew Redmond

Business Maverick

What's in a name? Trump set to wipe government language

By Reuters

Maverick Life

Most ‘words of the year’ don’t actually tell us about the state of the world – here’s what I’d pick instead

By Tony Thorne

South Africa

Basic Education Minister confirms Bela Act ‘essentially’ ready for implementation – except clauses 4 & 5

By Lisakanya Venna

South Africa

The ups and occasional downs of learning how to socialise well in a small town

By Julienne Du Toit

South Africa

Clinging to monolingual education undermines SA’s rich linguistic diversity

By Nhlanhla Mpofu

South Africa

A passion born in silence – how childhood mutism and a love of reading produced a master of languages

By Joel Ontong

South Africa

Stellenbosch University to probe ‘grave’ claims of nepotism against vice-chancellor De Villiers

By Joel Ontong