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Arts & Entertainment

Doorway to the Brinks’ world of unspoken feelings

On the contrary (Inteendeel) 71x71cm. Picture: SUPPLIED

This work may dominate the show, because it is less an artwork than a treasure trove rescued from a fire

Arts & Entertainment

Mogorosi project spices up Cape Town jazz fest line-up

Tumi Mogorosi . Picture: MOHAU MOFOKENG/SOWETAN

Mogorosi’s next project, Sanctum Sanctorum — set for release next month — is a far more intimate collaboration led by a human voice

Arts & Entertainment

When you combine music with the things you see, it goes into the spirit

Jonathan Crossley performs with his ’robo-guitar’ alongside bassist Carlo Mombelli  at the Bassline in Newtown, Johannesburg. Picture: JAMES OATWAY/SUNDAY TIMES

South African jazz musician Carol Mombelli says he wants to evolve as an artist and go through different phases like the artist Picasso

Health

Women trapped between scourge and perception

Picture: REUTERS

Obstetric fistula affects young girls giving birth who are not morphologically or anatomically ready

Opinion

Gordhan should broaden sugar tax to junk food

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Obesity levy a risk to drinks brands

The Vision Next concept showcases some of the technology BMW expects to use in the next 20-30 years.  Picture: BMW AG

CONCEPT MODELS: BMW looking to the next 100 years

Centenarian BMW turns to a digital future with its anniversary gift to itself

Management

Women leave companies because of compensation issues, not family demands

Picture: THINKSTOCK

A global study shows four of the five primary reasons that 30-something women and men leave organisations overlap

Health

Surprising risk in lens transplants

Researchers have found that many recipients of lens transplants go on to experience cataracts or elevated eye pressure. Picture: ISTOCK

Researchers have found that many recipients of lens transplants go on to experience cataracts or elevated eye pressure

Travel & Food

SA’s Michelin man will never again mistake ‘fowl’ for ‘breast’ in French

Chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen. Picture: SUPPLIED

World-class restaurateur and chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen is in SA promoting his second book, having been awarded a Michelin star in January


Cars, motorcycles & driving


Motoring

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Pick the brains of the vehicle experts

The last generation Audi A6 emerged as the Best of All Classes.  Picture: NEWSPRESS UK

The Dekra used-car report provides an insightful tool when choosing a pre-owned car

Motoring

TECHNOLOGY: Mercedes E-Class — supreme hi-tech finesse

Mercedes will roll out its next generation engines starting with the E220d.  Picture: DAIMLER AG

The Mercedes-Benz E-Class bristles with sophistication and segment firsts, write Lerato Matebese and Michael Taylor

Motoring

INTERVIEW: Passionate Jaguar team is taking things to a higher level

Jaguar Land Rover SVO boss John Edwards with some iconic models.  Picture: NEWSPRESS UK

Motor News caught up with the director of Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations unit, John Edwards, writes Lerato Matebese

Opinion

EDITOR’S NOTE: One at a time — how difficult can that be?

SA’s financial hub should probably be renamed Constructionton, writes Mark Smyth

Motoring

ROAD TEST: Mazda CX-3 Straddles best of both worlds

The CX-3 redefines good looks for a crossover.  Picture: NEWSPRESS UK, QUICKPIC

Mazda has really stirred things up in the compact crossover market with its CX-3, writes Mark Smyth

Motoring

CAR OF THE YEAR: Swedes rise to top again

The Mazda2 came in third.  Picture: QUICKPIC

The 2016 Wesbank-SAGMJ Car of the Year has been crowned, but the result was a close affair, writes Lerato Matebese


Travel, food and restaurant news & reviews


Of the 156 countries surveyed for the World Happiness Report 2013, South Africa is ranked 96th.  Picture: THINKSTOCK

Happiness test finds nothing rotten in the state Denmark

In terms of the happiest places to live, Nordic countries top the list, while the 10 most unhappy places on earth include eight sub-Saharan countries

Health

China mask makers see smog as good news

Picture: REUTERS

ASL Masks plans to double output of protective equipment as China struggles to shake off the toxic smog produced by its heavy industry

Travel & Food

SA’s Michelin man will never again mistake ‘fowl’ for ‘breast’ in French

Chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen. Picture: SUPPLIED

World-class restaurateur and chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen is in SA promoting his second book, having been awarded a Michelin star in January

Travel & Food

Eroica, a counter-revolution in cycling, pays homage to a beautiful past

Eroica Route. Picture: Supplied

For SA’s edition of the Italian retro ride, cyclists tackle the dirt roads of the Karoo on pre-1999 steel bikes from the golden era of South African bicycle manufacture

Travel & Food

Walter Sisulu square in Soweto lacks the pulling power of Vilakazi Street

The Mandela Restaurant at the Vilakazi street next to Mandela's house at Orlando West in Soweto. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA/©BUSINESS DAY

Kliptown’s Walter Sisulu square, 4.5km from Vilakazi Street, is where the Freedom Charter was officially adopted and signed on June 26 1955

Travel & Food

Darling Brew takes natural to a new level

The Darling Brew team is deft with their beer-tapping skills.   Picture: SUPPLIED

Darling Brew is a highlight for many in Darling, a small town with ample diversity, writes Eugene Yiga

Travel & Food

Dale-Roberts’ pop-up at The Saxon puts down roots

Chef Luke Dale-Roberts at The Saxon. Picture: SUPPLIED

Johannesburg boutique hotel decides to create a permanent dining space for top chef Luke Dale-Roberts, who owns The Test Kitchen in Cape Town

Opinion

LIQUID INVESTMENTS: You can’t make great wine from young vines

There is now an entire generation of wine makers who have never tasted properly mature wine


Music, theatre, art, dance & design


Jonathan Crossley performs with his ’robo-guitar’ alongside bassist Carlo Mombelli  at the Bassline in Newtown, Johannesburg. Picture: JAMES OATWAY/SUNDAY TIMES

When you combine music with the things you see, it goes into the spirit

South African jazz musician Carol Mombelli says he wants to evolve as an artist and go through different phases like the artist Picasso

Arts & Entertainment

Fashion partners marry sharp tailoring with romantic femininity

Malcolm Klûk and Christiaan du Toit’s latest ready-to-wear collection, Guilty Pleasures, is powerfully sophisticated and modern

Arts & Entertainment

Bushfire’s 10th showing to feature acts from more than a dozen countries

Picture: MTN BUSHFIRE FESTIVAL

Taking place in Swaziland, the Bushfire Festival will also feature an art gallery, a children’s section and a market, apart from a wide variety of music

Arts & Entertainment

South African animation series makes mark in Africa

Jabu's Jungle animated series. Picture: SUPPLIED

Township youths and experienced animators helped Cape Town-based Pixcomm create Jabu’s Jungle, which has been bought by French television network Gulli Africa

Arts & Entertainment

Paris couture label embraces hi-tech clothing trend with self-heating coat

Courrèges self-heating coats. Picture: AFP

Self-heating hi-tech coat a glamorous and giant step for fashion

Opinion

HALF ART: Art is not a blank canvas for protesters’ outrage

We are at risk of turning the gallery space and the city street alike into stages for elaborate tit-for-tat pageants


Personal technology news & reviews


NationBuilder creator and ‘hero engineer’ Jim Gilliam has built a software platform that is attracting electoral campaigners and corporations. Politicians and groups in Africa have also signed up. Picture: SUPPLIED

NationBuilder opens gateway to influence

Digital hub for campaigns has given a novice like Donald Trump access to the sophisticated tools that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney used in 2012, writes Adam Satariano

Gadgets & Gear

Carpooling effective for congestion and even employee productivity

Picture: ISTOCK

New carpooling app has investors thinking more about environmental impacts of corporate supply chains

Gadgets & Gear

Supercomputer takes first game against boardgame ‘go’ grandmaster

South Korean 'Go' game fans watch a television screen broadcasting live footage of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match, at the Korea Baduk Association in Seoul on March 9, 2016. Picture:AFP/JUNG YEON-JE

Google-developed supercomputer stuns Lee Se-Dol in the first of a five-match go showdown in South Korea, beating him in a three-and-a-half hour game

Gadgets & Gear

Samsung Galaxy S7 review: head of the smartphone class

Mock-ups of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone. Picture: BLOOMBERG

The Galaxy S7 is everything you want in a smartphone — including sleek design and a far superior camera — but nothing you didn’t know you wanted

Gadgets & Gear

Mobile retail app to help both shoppers and shopkeepers

Picture: THINKSTOCK

The app allows customers to browse selected items from a catalogue on a tablet or smartphone, and then virtually place items in their homes


Books news & reviews


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US author Pat Conroy dead at 70

Pat Conry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just four weeks ago before his death

Books

BOOK REVIEW: Chaka

Tumour of power shown in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka is relevant today, writes Karin Schimke

Books

BOOK REVIEW: The Boy Who Could Change the World

Aaron Swartz, who took his own life in 2013, was a Chicago prodigy turned celebrity hacktivist who believed in freeing information, fighting corruption, and revolutionising government. Picture: REUTERS/ NOAH BERGER

Aaron Swartz’s essays provide a rallying cry for free information, fighting corruption, and revolutionising government, writes Hannah Kuchler

Books

Bubbly Zola’s cookbook makes it all so easy

Zola Nene. Picture: SUPPLIED.

Enthusiastic television chef Zola Nene’s cookbook keeps things simple in the kitchen

Books

BOOK REVIEW: A bookworm’s life on Joburg streets

Philani Dladla  stands on the side of Empire Road in Braamfontein, next to the University of the Witwatersrand, where he previously sold books to motorists. Picture: DANIEL BORN

The Pavement Bookworm, an account of Philani Dladla’s life and by extension that of the homeless living under city bridges, is written as he speaks — clearly and vividly, writes Sue Grant-Marshall


Health & lifestyle news


Medical researchers aim to tap into the human body’s electrical impulses to develop new treatments for conditions ranging from Crohn’s disease to obesity. Picture: ISTOCK

Medicine in the future could be electrifying

Scientists study how the electrical language of the body controls human organs in order to provide precision therapies, writes Clive Cookson

Health

Is your medicine right for your metabolism?

Picture: ISTOCK

Gene variations mean pain drug codeine has little effect on up to 20% of the US population, while 2% have such a strong reaction that a normal dose can be deadly

Health

Happiness test finds nothing rotten in the state Denmark

Of the 156 countries surveyed for the World Happiness Report 2013, South Africa is ranked 96th.  Picture: THINKSTOCK

In terms of the happiest places to live, Nordic countries top the list, while the 10 most unhappy places on earth include eight sub-Saharan countries

Health

India’s generics market is attracting western buyers

Legal channels catering for overseas patients who wish to access India’s cheaper generic drugs are springing up, including Delhi-based Ikris Pharma Networks. Picture: REUTERS/DANISH SIDDIQUI

A growing army of patients heads to the subcontinent to seek out low-cost, life-saving medicines, writes Emily Ford

Health

Why lack of sleep can contribute to weight gain

Picture: THINKSTOCK

Study finds that when sleep-deprived, individuals have a greater activation of the endocannabinoid system, which is involved in reward-driven eating

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