Interesting Stories

The man who started a South African delivery giant while living in a maid’s room. Stephen Gleisner is the founder of The Courier Guy, one of South Africa’s most popular and widely-used e-commerce delivery services. Gleisner’s life might have taken a completely different direction if not for a small family favour and a little white lie while he struggled to figure out what to do with his life. In a […]

After finishing in second place in 2024, Cape Town claimed the number one spot for 2025 in the British-based company’s rankings. The results were based on opinions from 18,500 people around the world who weighed in on their city as per the seventh Time Out global survey of city-dwellers. The survey’s questions covered everything from food, nightlife and culture to affordability, happiness and overall city vibe... you know us Capetonians, […]

SA telescope discovers Inkathazo, a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s. Inkathazo is a little different from its cosmic counterparts in several ways. Written by: Jacinta Delhaize  You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that […]