1. A Province on Edge, A Decision Made It began with a familiar tension, the kind that has simmered in South Africa for years but sometimes boils over into something nobody can ignore. President Cyril Ramaphosa made the decision to deploy the South African National Defence Force to KwaZulu-Natal, not to fight a foreign enemy but to support the South African Police Service in restoring order during a wave of anti-foreigner protests. The words in the official statement were clinical, but the reality on the ground was anything but: streets blocked with burning tyres, shops that once belonged to foreign…

What should have been the start of a beautiful new chapter has turned into a public tug-of-war, a legal standoff, and a deeply messy he-said-she-said that no one seems to be winning. Rapper Yang Hong-won, the former High School Rapper winner who recently celebrated his belated wedding and welcomed a daughter only months ago, is at the center of a scandal that broke less than a week after his vows. The first person to publicly raise the affair allegation now says the spotlight has swung back on them in the worst possible way. In messages posted to a personal account,…