Here are eight lessons anthropologist and futurist Marguerite Coetzee learnt during her time as our columnist Read More

As an anthropologist, anything relating to culture intrigues Marguerite Coetzee, so what is “cancel culture”? Read More

Being human is being in a constant state of adapting, adjusting and accommodating, writes Marguerite Coetzee Read More

Marguerite Coetzee asks: How do we know when an observation is deeply meaningful or simply coincidence? Read More

by Marguerite Coetzee. Who’d have thought, at the start of this new year and decade, that there’d be a resurgence of past political movements, socially fuelled structural violenc… Read More

by Marguerite Coetzee. South Africa’s story is one suspended in turbulence and this notion of uncertainty has rung true for decades. It’s not surprising, then, that Springbok Rad… Read More

by Marguerite Coetzee. With a young democracy, South Africa is in a state of transition, and rugby has been used as a tool before to unite a divided country. Since then, youth have questione… Read More

by Marguerite Coetzee. Welcome to the Anthropocene — the human epoch. We are in an era of human-influenced disruption. Some argue (and have argued for some time now) that nature, the e… Read More

Have you ever wondered what the greatest books of all time were? You’re not alone. Many others have pondered this same question, and some critics have even created their own “gre… Read More

I came across this amazing list of 1000 novels selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges in January 2009. This list includes only novels – no memoirs, no shor… Read More