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The Mail & Guardian’s 2026 200 Young South Africans call for nominations has been extended

The Mail & Guardian is pleased to announce that the call for nominations for the 2026 edition of the 200 Young South Africans has been extended to Friday 10 April 2026.

  • Eyaaz
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Barbara Adair’s unconventional journey

More than a chronicle of Namibia, Barbara Adair’s book experiments with language and structure

  • Eyaaz
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The cabinet score cards show persistent underperformance

The president should address this

  • Eyaaz
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Nominations for the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans 2026 are now open

The M&G 200 YSA 2026 call for nominations, honouring exceptional young leaders, innovators and changemakers shaping the future of our country, are open

  • Eyaaz
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Respect: Co-editors Anton Harber (behind) and Irwin Manoim haven’t changed (much) in the 40 years since they launched the Weekly Mail, when they were joined by a range of reprobates who believed in a cause. Photo: Weekly Mail

Bitching and moaning. For a cause

This is an edited version of former co-editor Irwin Manoim’s speech delivered at a reunion of those who were there when the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, was founded 40 years ago on 14 June

  • Eyaaz
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Journalist and writer Gavin Evans

Gavin Evans on fathers, faith and fearless reporting in South Africa

Memoir is a gripping account of journalistic bravery, father-son reckonings and resilience

  • Eyaaz
8 min read

Let’s fall back in love with journalism

The M&G is not immune to criticism. We have made many mistakes over the years. What we can be unequivocal about, however, is that a blow to anyone in the news media is a gut punch to all of us.

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read

The Mail & Guardian matters: Looking back in admiration

As staff face retrenchments, a print dinosaur gives three (relative) hatchlings the microphone

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read
Out, out: Goya’s painting St Francis Borgia Helping a Dying Impenitent may seem a little anachronistic today, but perhaps driving out devils is still needed. Photo: Public Domain

The God Edition | In South Africa, a pricey path to becoming demon slayers

When politics resembles possession, the Vatican should offer group rates for exorcising elected officials

  • Des Erasmus
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The OG: Manny Cabeleira bought The Radium Beer Hall in the 1980s. Photo: Seth Thorne

The Radium’s authentic brew

A good, old-fashioned bar is like print media: distinguished by its charming, convivial, if slightly dog-eared nature

  • Eyaaz
5 min read

Nominations are open for M&G Greening the Future awards

The awards celebrate people, projects and organisations that champion environmental concerns

  • Umamah Bakharia
1 min read
200 Young South Africans lit signage at The Forum on the gala evening 27 June 2024. Pic by Delwyn Verasamy
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Winners | 200 Young South Africans 2024

WATCH: The Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans event continues to shine a spotlight on those shaping the future of the country

  • Scott Peter Smith
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Supporters of South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), sing and dance at the launch of the party’s canvassing drive in Crossroads, Cape Town, 08 February 2004, a day after the DA launched its election campaign vowing to prevent a ‘one party state’ ruled by the African National Congress (ANC) by creating a ‘real multi-party democracy’. South African president Thabo Mbeki is due to announce the date of the 2004 general elections in parliament 09 February. AFP PHOTO/ANNA ZIEMINSKI

From the 2004 M&G election archives

Twenty years ago, our analyst wrote that the ANC had not erred catastrophically enough in government to give the opposition a foot in the door

  • Des Erasmus
7 min read
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GGA webinar series: The SA 2020 Scenarios Project

Pockets of excellence still exist: we must just learn how to harness them

  • Derek Davey
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WATCH | National election debate at Fort Hare – Navigating South Africa’s political crossroads

Join Mail & Guardian and the University of Fort Hare on 17 April 2024 for a pivotal election debate. Engage with top leaders as South Africa approaches a historic election, marking 30 years of democracy amidst challenges and new political dynamics.

  • Scott Peter Smith
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2023 post Sona panellists Athandiwe Saba, former M&G deputy editor; Dr Roland Ngam, Programme Manager for Climate Change and Sociological Transfomation at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; Lizeka Tandwa, Political Editor at the Mail & Guardian; Tessa Dooms, Director Rivonia Circle, and Professor Richard Calland, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town.

M&G Critical Thinking Forum | State of the Nation Address

Join the Mail & Guardian, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and a panel of experts at the post-State of the Nation Address Critical Thinking Forum in Cape Town

  • Eyaaz
1 min read

Media like the Mail & Guardian are critical for democracy

Legacy publications struggle in the digital age and they need investment, not cutting skilled staff

  • Ron Derby
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