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The Gathering goes live

Daily Maverick’s The  Gathering is set to begin this morning. Featuring a lineup of the country’s major political figures, you can expect many a tail feather to be ruffled today. Follow the entire event live right here. Read more

Thousands flock to Ali funeral

Large groups of people from all walks of life congregated on Thursday in Louisville, Kentucky for Muhammad Ali’s two-day funeral service. Friday will see a major procession through the town and a private burial. Will Smith, who portrayed Ali on the silver screen, will be one of the pallbearers. Read more

New MH370 debris examined

Australian search teams are investigating three new pieces of debris. Flight MH370 debris was found in both Australia and along Madagascar’s coastline. This brings the total number of pieces of evidence up to a dismal eight. Read more

Effective MS treatment found, at a cost

A new form of highly aggressive chemotherapy has been found to drastically reduce the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. The chemotherapy essentially destroyed the immune systems of 24 test patients ahead of a stem cell transplant that appeared to noticeably reduce MS symptoms. But with high risks involved to patient health and mortality, there is a long way to go before this becomes a normal treatment. Read more

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Facts of the Day

Today is The Gathering. Held in Midrand at the Vodaworld Dome, expect all manner of political heavyweights to weigh in on the state of the nation.

Fact of the day: The Rat Pack’s name originated from Lauren Bacall, mother of Humphrey Bogart’s child. When Bacall saw the group drunkenly about in Las Vegas, she quipped, “You look like a goddamn rat pack.” 

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	The Gathering 2016: LIVE STREAM & Twitter Feed  By Daily Maverick
	Motsoa-do about nothing: The SABC communications Quotathon  By Marelise van der Merwe
	An Inconvenient Truth: A groundbreaking study explains Government’s losing streak  By Stephen Grootes
	Letter to the Editor: Stephen Grootes mistakes Vavi for Cosatu  By Daily Maverick Staff Reporter
	Somalia: Yet another setback for the AU’s flagship peacekeeping mission  By Simon Allison
	ISS Today: Blue economies – turning sunken costs into sunken treasure  By ISS TODAY
	South Sudan: An inconvenient justice  By Lauren Hutton
	ISS Today: The resource curse comes to Mozambique  By PETER FABRICIUS
	ICG: Women in the North Caucasus conflicts – an under-reported plight  By International Crisis Group
	Op-Ed: South Sudan needs truth and trials  By Remember Miamingi

OPINIONS

	It’s time for the good kind of trouble  By Andrew Ihsaan Gasnolar
	The morphogenesis of a post-apartheid political normativity  By Paulus Zulu