Edition · July 2026

July 2026

One hundred years, nineteen parks, one extraordinary country. The cover story marks a century of South Africa's national parks, and Alice Myburgh takes on seven continents in seven days for a historic first. Also inside: the Quiet Hero of Helplift Vaaldriehoek, the Lemba people, snoek on the braai, respecting the wild, and why the stories are leaving.

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We do not wait for the crisis anymore. Something remarkable happens when South Africans are pushed far enough. You have seen it. The call goes out, and within hours, communities that barely spoke to each other are feeding strangers, driving through the night, building something from nothing. Not because someone organised it. Not because there was a plan. Because that is simply what South Africans do when it matters enough. The rest of the world is still trying to figure out how we do that. Here is what we want to say in this second edition of Moxie.

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51 pages of science, nature, history, travel, food and puzzles, written for curious minds aged 8 to 80.