Mail & Guardian

Mail & Guardian

The Mail & Guardian is a weekly newspaper based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and published by M&G Media. It specializes in political insights, in-depth investigative journalism, news from Southern Africa, as well as coverage of local arts, music, and cultural trends.

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  • 1 week ago | mg.co.za | Des Erasmus

    The judge has handed down sentences — but a little girl is still missing and a community’s anguish remains raw This content is restricted to subscribers only. Join the M&G Community Our commitment at the Mail & Guardian is to ensure every reader enjoys the finest experience. Join the M&G community and support us in delivering in-depth news to you consistently.

  • 1 week ago | mg.co.za | Des Erasmus

    Judge Nathan Erasmus on Thursday sentenced Jacquen “Boeta” Appollis, Steveno van Rhyn, and Kelly Smith, convicted earlier this month of kidnapping and trafficking Joslin Smith, to 10 years in prison for the former, and life imprisonment for the latter. The sentences are to run concurrently. There were whoops of joy from the multi-purpose centre in Saldanha Bay, where the trial has been sitting for the past two months, when Erasmus handed down the life sentence.

  • 1 week ago | mg.co.za | Des Erasmus

    Kelly Smith sat hunched, her expression almost unreadable as her biological mother, Amanda Daniels, delivered a searing victim impact statement before the Cape Town high court on Wednesday. When Smith raised her eyes, the shimmer of tears from a prior impact statement betrayed her attempts at a stoic composure. The courtroom was silent as Daniels spoke of the pain and permanence of the loss she felt since Kelly’s middle child, her granddaughter, Joslin Smith, went missing in February 2024.

  • 1 week ago | mg.co.za | Umamah Bakharia

    Sentencing proceedings in the Joslin Smith trial are underway in the Western Cape High Court, with the state calling for life imprisonment for the three accused in the disappearance of the child. On 19 February 2024, then six-year-old Joslin disappeared from her home in the Middelpos informal settlement in Saldanha Bay. Her mother, Kelly Smith, reported the child missing that evening, claiming she had left Joslin in the care of her partner, Jacquin “Boeta” Appollis.

  • 1 week ago | mg.co.za | Sheree Bega

    Long before there were dinosaurs, there were dragonflies. That’s one of the things about the ephemeral insects, with their long, slender bodies and gossamer-thin wings, that fascinates entomologist Charl Deacon. Dragonflies, known for their striking aerial acrobatics and near 360-degree vision, are one of the oldest groups of winged insects on Earth.