Audi’s status as a premium automotive brand has been beyond question for many years now. But one could argue that the A5 coupé put the Four Rings on the map as far as desirability and sheer aesthetic appeal are concerned. Mixing gorgeous styling with sports car dynamics, the sleek two-door has just been spruced up. DEON SCHOEMAN drives the fiery S5 version to find out if it still has the right stuff.

Had he not committed suicide in 2008, David Foster Wallace would have celebrated his 50th birthday on Tuesday, 21 February. The message he has left from his writings is that we’d do better to take heed of how he tried to live than of how he died. By KEVIN BLOOM.

RUSTUM KOZAIN takes the measure of Erich Rautenbach’s dagga-infused novel – The Unexploded Boer – and finds in it an instance of the white guy trying to have his political cake, and eating it.

The week that was(n't) in beloved South Africa. Seriously. By JOHN VLISMAS & DUNCAN HARLING.

For years the world was fascinated by the fate of Lord Lucan, the British aristocrat who fled the UK after a murder – and simply disappeared. Now new evidence has emerged to suggest that he ran to Africa. By REBECCA DAVIS.

In this instalment of Street Life, GREG NICOLSON spends a day on the street with Lucky who refuses to beg. He gets by searching Johannesburg’s streets for anything that could be recycled.

Does the Sunday Telegraph simply detest Richard Dawkins? It would certainly appear so from the newspaper’s clumsy attempt to smear the scientist this weekend. By REBECCA DAVIS.

Their Libyan adventure gave David Cameron and his government a taste for foreign intervention. Next stop is Somalia, which – after two decades of civil war – is ripe for rescuing. Except it’s a little dangerous in the Horn of Africa, so Somalia was invited to London for a major peace conference that is going to solve everything. Except it won’t. By SIMON ALLISON.

Rupert Murdoch’s perceived willingness to throw his journalists under the bus to save his own skin is angering his staff. Now senior journalists at the Sun are planning legal action against their don. By REBECCA DAVIS.

Disneyland Paris is so last century. If a French MP gets his way, tourists may be flocking to Paris to visit 'Napoleonland', a theme park celebrating the 19th century emperor. By REBECCA DAVIS.

No matter who the boy adventurer Tintin took on in any of his 24 escapades, he always ended up on top. This week he prevailed again: this time in a Belgian court. By REBECCA DAVIS.

A real sea change has been slowly moving through American society for the past several generations in which people increasingly are jumping the racial fence – or just plain ignoring it. Now nearly two-thirds of Americans say "it would be fine" if a family member were to marry outside their own race. By J BROOKS SPECTOR.

When an unknown comic debuts, an audience has certain expectations. Mostly we expect youth, hunger and foul-mouths because people still guffaw at vulgarity. We also expect it to be pretty lame, because many comics who are great for a 15-minute slot, battle to generate enough strong material to hold together a solo show for more than an hour. By LESLEY STONES.

Currently touring the US to promote their second album Ten$ion, Die Antwoord are hitting some next-level sh*t – like billboards on Times Square as the new faces of fashion designer Alexander Wang, and an appearance last week on Letterman. Of course, there are still the haters. Which is why KEVIN BLOOM gives (yet another) take on the source of their enduring charm.

An American 14-year-old, who earned his first college diploma at age nine, has just released his first book explaining how other children can follow in his footsteps. REBECCA DAVIS considers whether this is a desirable route for a kid.

The Johannesburg City Library was closed in April 2009 for a much-needed facelift. Some three years and R68-million later, the library reopened on Tuesday transformed physically and functionally. This is a library that accounts for a new experience in public libraries in South Africa. By KHADIJA PATEL.

Over the last while there's been a something of rallying cry for Africans to tell their own stories. But all too often proponents are more in love with discussing the idea than figuring out practical ways to make it happen. 18 Days in Egypt, a start-up that focuses on documenting the revolution, is turning the concept into a reality – and, moreover, using an innovative, collaborative digital platform to do so. By THERESA MALLINSON.

The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism is less than two years old, but since its inception has scored a series of impressive scoops. Most recently, it established that US drones in Pakistan had killed scores of civilians – directly contradicting Barack Obama’s claims just a few days previously. By REBECCA DAVIS.

Writing is an art, but it is not a martial art, as a memoirist once said. In her new book, Alexandra Fuller is quick with her punches – but is ready with a towel and some ice too, writes DIANE AWERBUCK.

A new memoir that alleges John Fitzgerald Kennedy protected a 19-year-old intern purely in exchange for sexual favours has set two New York critics at each other’s throats. The stronger argument appears to be the sadder one. By KEVIN BLOOM.

The week that was(n't) in beloved South Africa. Seriously. By JOHN VLISMAS & DUNCAN HARLING.

Whitney Houston is dead at 48. REBECCA DAVIS looks back at the rise and fall of the woman they called, simply, The Voice.

Earl Tupper, the man who gifted the world the plastic food container with an airtight lid, spent decades dealing with disappointment. Stepford wife home-ware aside, the life story of the inventor who founded Tupperware contains a poignant business lesson about the value of tenacity. By MANDY DE WAAL.

Want proof that the entire planet has become China obsessed? Meet Er Shun and Ji Li, two giant pandas that are about to do a 10-year stint in a Canadian zoo. Is it about the love of animals? Ha! It’s about geopolitics, dummy? By RICHARD POPLAK.

Statements After an Arrest under the Immorality Act opened at the Fugard Theatre on 24 January; the play, written 40 years ago, is back on stage for the first time since Fugard himself last played it, in the early seventies. And a beautiful return it is. By Emilie Gambade.

As Ronnie Apteker's latest movie, Material, is about to enter the circuit, the reviews are glowing with praise. KHADIJA PATEL talks to the man in the centre of the action, Riaad Moosa.

Ever tried to communicate a really important business concept to a room full of blank-faced people? Or been in a brainstorm that just never went anywhere? Next time think pictures, and visuals and games. That’s what global doodle expert, Sunni Brown, would have you believe. By MANDY DE WAAL.

Find out which watchers are watching the watchers, what preoccupies the occupiers, and who the agent provocateur provoking the White House is.

What’s the state of our nation? What’s Cele doing on a train?  What did Trump win in Vegas? Does an iPhone have a soul? And do we actually give a sh*t if ET was a man's man?

Sketching out scenarios for the future of humanity’s relationship with nature is a project normally left to environmentalists and economists. Tuesday evening, however, saw a group of Californian humanities academics brought together in Cape Town to thrash out ideas on the topic. By REBECCA DAVIS.