Leonie Wagner started her journalism career as a court reporter. She traded her court shoes for champagne flutes reporting on SA's A-list celebrities as an entertainment reporter for The Times and later the Sunday Times. She is passionate about telling human interest stories and compelling features that give readers a glimpse of the realities of ordinary South Africans and high-profile personalities.

Violence against women is endemic, and the pandemic has made it worse

Women were dying at the hands of men long before coronavirus came along, and it keeps happening. What are we doing about it? Leonie Wagner speaks to ...

'When I saw her I just cried'- The despair, strength and love of SA's pregnant ...

Poverty plays pivotal role, along with peer pressure and gender-based violence, as teenage pregnancies soar

The rise and rise of Anant Singh, former R1-a-day film shop employee

Anant Singh, one of SA's most successful film producers, has published a memoir about his life and times.

'The Harder They Fall' tells of Black cowboys whitewashed out of history

The Netflix sensation's characters are all based on real Black lawmen and outlaws from the Old West whose stories have not been heard

Barakat: The Tupperware treat carrying SA's Oscars hope

Leonie Wagner talks to the star and director of 'Barakat', SA’s official entry for the 2022 Academy Awards, about the acts of giving that inspired ...

Home still where the heart is for first all-female 'Idols SA' top three

Fame can’t make these moms forget their cuddly babies.

Gdańsking the night away: SA dancers take on the best in the world in Poland

We meet break dancers Alfred Burgess and Courtnaé Paul, who did their country proud at world finals

Right amount of grit: international parkour pro flips around Jozi

Sydney-born star takes advantage of lockdown in central Joburg to scale and appreciate its architecture

'Dance is me. I am dance,' says Soweto's dauntless Nomsa Manaka

A pioneer of African dance who has been saved by her art form before now looks to it to see her through another trial.

Forget the boutiques, thrifting may just find you that fashion gem

It's a Wednesday afternoon in the Johannesburg CBD. De Villiers Street is a cacophony of blaring music, hooting taxis and hawkers pushing their goods.