Osman’s love for flawed, real characters shines in his latest offering.

When I was a child, it was common for adults to call someone an egg when they had done something ridiculous, writes Sue de Groot

It is difficult to imagine being completely cut off without any way of contacting the outside world, writes Sue de Groot

The admirable environmental NPO Litter4Tokens has urgently called for “government action to address an alarming increase in nurdles on the South African coastline”.

My colleague Hogarth and I both seem to find an endless well of inspiration in the many daily communications put out by the Hawks. Incidentally, if you think the police are not doing anything about crime, the dozens of press releases about arrests and convictions for all manner of transgressions that we receive every day at least provide some hope that some police are being not just efficient but sometimes quite heroic.

The solar probe is in fact a pretty big deal. Let’s hope Aditya-L1 was thoroughly sanitised before it left, writes Sue de Groot.

Losing your temper while throwing a tantrum is one of the risks of intemperance, writes Sue de Groot

There was a new moon cowering in the twilight sky on Friday night, like a tiny fingernail clipping. It was peeping out from the clouds and trying not to be seen in case someone shot at it, writes Sue de Groot

“Pre-loved” is probably one of the worst euphemisms to have entered the English language in the last decade or so, writes Sue de Groot

On Monday, the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) launched the Vala Zonke War Room. “Vala Zonke” has various interpretations roughly meaning “close them all” or “fill them all up”, writes Sue de Groot.