Author · Founder & Editor
Liam van der Merwe
Founder and solo editor of Die Stoep, a student-led South African magazine project about money, work, technology, property, motoring, lifestyle and culture from the stoep.
Based in Sandton, Johannesburg · 6 stories for Die Stoep
Credentials
- Communications student
- Independent South African publisher
Previously at
- Student media projects
- Local reporting and editorial research
Contact
- CULTURE
Why the stoep still matters
A small architectural feature became a South African institution: part lookout post, part newsroom, part family court. That is where this magazine begins.
7 May 2026 · 7 min read
- BUSINESS
The small businesses learning to plan again
After years of batteries, diesel receipts and broken trading hours, South African operators are cautiously rebuilding around a simple luxury: predictability.
7 May 2026 · 8 min read
- TECHNOLOGY
AI has entered the family WhatsApp group
South Africans are adopting AI less through futuristic offices than through voice notes, school projects, side hustles and suspicious relatives asking if a message is real.
7 May 2026 · 7 min read
- PROPERTY
The new South African stoep is sectional title
Apartments, estates and complexes are changing the old dream of a freestanding house — and replacing the front stoep with shared rules, levies and WhatsApp politics.
7 May 2026 · 8 min read
- MOTORING
The bakkie goes electric, slowly
Electric pickups make sense on paper. South African roads, farms and charging maps are where the paper starts asking harder questions.
7 May 2026 · 7 min read
- LIFESTYLE
The Sunday lunch index
Chicken, potatoes, salad, pudding and petrol for the auntie who came from across town: one family meal tells a surprisingly sharp story about South African inflation.
7 May 2026 · 6 min read
