In late 2019, Facebook quietly removed a network of pages and accounts that had been meddling in Libya’s chaotic political scene. The operation was linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian businessman with a long history of running online influence campaigns. A year later, in December 2020, Facebook did it again: another Libya-focused operation, again linked to Prigozhin, was taken down. But something had changed. The 2019 version relied on pages that pretended to be independent news outlets and posted political cartoons. The 2020 version was more polished and more embedded: one of its fake media outlets had an actual on-the-ground…

There is a particular magic when a performer comes home, and for comedian Kurt Schoonraad, that magic is about to become very real. The beloved South African funnyman, born in District Six and raised in Mitchells Plain, is bringing his acclaimed one-man show Funny Side Up to the Homecoming Centre in Cape Town for a special run from Wednesday, November 4, to Sunday, November 15. The choice of venue feels deeply intentional. The Homecoming Centre is not just another theatre space; it is a place that carries the memories of displacement, resilience, and return. For someone whose own family story…