When the rewards are death threats, financial turmoil and reputational attacks, is cracking criminal cases and whistleblowing ever truly worth it? In this News24 breakfast event, Twanji Kalula chats to Micah Reddy (Malema, Money. Power. Patronage), Jeff Wicks (The Shadow State), and Kyle Cowan (Mafia Land) weighing up the costs of writing dangerous books about dangerous people, versus the cost of saying nothing and enduring endless commissions, ongoing corruption and lack of service delivery.

Discover the secrets behind Italy’s most comforting dish. Learn about rice varieties, timing, and technique as flavour is built step by step, revealing how to achieve perfect texture through method, explanation, and expert guidance.

The FynArts Chef’s Table with Adventure Chef David Grier is an immersive, interactive cooking experience transforming participants into chefs for an afternoon. Working together in one kitchen, couples will experience the high-energy environment of creating a full 3-course meal from scratch, plating it, serving it, and then sitting down to enjoy the banquet they helped prepare. The recipes and workflow are designed so that anyone can succeed, regardless of cooking skill, while still feeling challenged and part of something special. It blends creativity, pressure, laughter, and collaboration into a memorable afternoon where you become the chefs, the waiters, and the guests.

Award-winning author Kopano Matlwa (Coconut, Period Pain, Bosadi) chats to un-award-winning author Paige Nick (Book People) about winning the 2007 European Union Literary Award for Debut Fiction for Coconut, as well as her latest novel, Bosadi, longlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Award in 2025. We’ll be chatting about Kopano’s writing life, the books she’s written that have broken the mould, and what makes award-winning writing.

Die Siel van Eugène Marais met Daniel Anderson, begelei deur Paul Ferreira, is ’n dramatiese reis deur die innerlike wêreld van een van Suid-Afrika se mees komplekse en tragiese literêre figure. Teen die agtergrond van ’n onstuimige tydperk in die land se geskiedenis, verken ons Marais as ’n onwaarskynlike Afrikanerheld wat buite die grense van die tradisionele ikoon leef. Sy metamorfose – van sjarmante joernalis en student in Londen tot gebroke man – word belig deur sy eie gedigte, poëtiese inkopies in sy siel. Musiek verweef deur verskeie kunstenaars onthul die man agter die mite: ewe gebreek as briljant.