Marianne Thamm

It’s a time of the year where we look back and reflect on the people close to us who died, as well as those we didn’t know personally but their deaths leave a void nevertheless. Here’s to all of them.

While rape survivor Alison Botha is making good progress after suffering a brain aneurysm in September, her freed attackers might soon find themselves back behind bars.

While rape survivor Alison Botha is making good progress after suffering a brain aneurysm in September, her freed attackers might soon find themselves back behind bars.

Luigi Mangione has become the Robin Hood of the transactional and profit-driven 21st century.

Luigi Mangione has become the Robin Hood of the transactional and profit-driven 21st century.

Charlatan Louis Liebenberg conned followers out of billions.

This year the release of official reports about the George building collapse, one of the country’s biggest construction disasters, is bound to highlight concerns about the regulation of the industry and the application of standards prescribed by law.

Some of us fear the machines, but they're our own creations, after all. Surely we can programme artificial intelligence to expose our own bullshit every time we're tempted to vocalise it? Any malevolence that AI seeks to deploy would have been logically thought out by humans in the first place. Not so?

The pioneering Land Court and Land Court of Appeal and its new leadership will this year shape the future of land governance and reform in South Africa.

The pioneering Land Court and Land Court of Appeal and its new leadership will this year shape the future of land governance and reform in South Africa.