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.

How libraries have remained relevant

Albert Einstein said, the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. So don’t let them disappear.

Forty years on: The silence beneath the water

School children were high on holiday anticipation, swapping sarmies, making plans — and talking about futures that would never happen.

Blankets, balaclavas and broken women

In the Eastern Cape town of Matatiele, home to seven-year-old Cwecwe, women say rape is common and justice is rare

The town where rape is a sentence served by women

Sexual violence is 'a part of life' in the small Eastern Cape town of Matatiele, where seven-year-old 'Cwecwe' was allegedly raped at school

Kenny G has taken elevator music to the top floor, and he’s proud of it

If you sat next to Kenny G on a flight, what would you talk about? His music? His Guinness World Record? The fact that his songs have been the ...

LEONIE WAGNER | Broken promises: how the system fails child victims

For child victims of sexual assault — and their parents — the emotional distress is drawn out through the long and frustrating process of seeking ...

Justice fails our kids: Despair as child abuse cases stall in court

New data from the Teddy Bear Foundation reveals shockingly low conviction rate for crimes against children

Why the three-night Cheetah Trail on this Karoo reserve is the cat's pyjamas

The slack-packing trail on the Samara Karoo Reserve is all about following paw prints by day and sleeping off-grid by night under a blanket of stars

Life and brutal death in the 1960s

The new series ‘Niggies’ relives the double murder of two young teens in the Free State mining dorp of Odendaalsrus in the 1960s