[8] He remained at Media24, the publisher of Business Insider South Africa, first as a writer at large for News24 (website)[9] and then its foreign editor, until January 2025.
[10] In October 2017, De Wet won a major national award for the column “Rainbowism comes to wine gums — and the black ones get a ghetto”[11], which was judged as "creatively refreshing by tracking the history of wine gums as a means to address central issues of South Africa’s past and future.
"[12] In February 2020, Burger King in South Africa published a print advert in the form of a coupon offering a free hamburger to anyone who shared De Wet's name, in response to an article he wrote questioning the brand's future in that country.
[14] De Wet asked readers to send him the coupons in their newspapers by physical mail, then cashed them in for 1,020 free hamburgers for a non-profit organisation which cares for vulnerable girl children in Johannesburg.
[15] In January 2025, De Wet called on South Africa to make political preparations to exercise its "digital sovereignty" by banning Facebook if necessary.