Defend Truth

CONSERVATIONIST VS DEPUTY PRESIDENT

Revealed: David Mabuza, Fred Daniel and the missing crime dockets

Kevin Bloom
19 mins

RET’S LAST OUTPOST

Siboniso Duma’s rise to power as ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairperson

Chris Makhaye

ODINGA vs RUTO

Kenya tense ahead of its highly competitive presidential vote

Daily Maverick Reporter

GLOBAL INITIATIVE AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME OP-ED

Zama zamas just one part of a multibillion-rand organised crime economy that threatens SA

Julian Rademeyer

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NATIONAL INTEREST OP-ED

South Africa’s favouritism towards autocratic nations poisons its recipe for democracy

Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
6 mins

OPINIONISTA

We must dismantle South Africa’s female fear factory, brick by brick

Tinyiko Maluleke
5 mins

WEBINAR

How the climate crisis disproportionately affects women

Julia Evans
6 mins

SPECIAL REPORT: IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Inside Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s State Security Agency-riddled Public Protector’s Office

Marianne Thamm
7 mins

OPINIONISTA

South Africa needs a more grounded, climate-conscious media 

Dale T McKinley
5 mins

LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY

Transnet far from being financially and operationally sustainable despite ‘accounting profit’

Ray Mahlaka
7 mins

SINO-US TENSIONS

Nancy Pelosi’s Magical Mystery Taiwan Tour – and its global aftermath

J Brooks Spector
16 mins

TOP READS

PUBLIC PROTECTOR IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Wingardium Busiosa: Mpofu conjures up Mkhwebane’s legal defence in political showdown of the century
SPECIAL REPORT: IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Inside Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s State Security Agency-riddled Public Protector’s Office
CONSERVATIONIST VS DEPUTY PRESIDENT

Revealed: David Mabuza, Fred Daniel and the missing crime dockets
RET’S LAST OUTPOST

Siboniso Duma’s rise to power as ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairperson
SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW

‘It took me three seconds to decide’ — Dr Fareed Abdullah reflects on three decades at the coalface of public health
JUMBO OPERATION

Done and dusted – SA game capture experts shift 263 elephants in four weeks
RUGBY

Brutal Boks destroy All Blacks despite red card

OPINIONISTA

Women’s Day 2022: Just another day on the island of Lord of the Flies

Amanda Gouws

CABLE PIRATES

Metal theft — the net could close if new draft policy is implemented

Onke Ngcuka

OPINIONISTA

Moscow Mechanism report of Russian war crimes in Ukraine is a real-life horror story

Liubov Abravitova

PUBLIC PROTECTOR IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Wingardium Busiosa: Mpofu conjures up Mkhwebane’s legal defence in political showdown of the century

Marianne Thamm

OPINIONISTA

World’s fine words on climate change ring hollow for African aims of energy self-sufficiency

Peter Hain

DANGEROUS ROADS

Long distance coach and taxi intimidation, murders, crippling SA transport industry

Vincent Cruywagen
6 mins

ECONOMY ANALYSIS

The depressing contradiction of the US’s ‘jobful contractions’ versus SA’s ‘jobless growth’

Ed Stoddard
5 mins

AFTER THE BELL

I love my local oil company … said nobody, ever

Tim Cohen
4 mins

OPINIONISTA

In honour of the women of 1956, let us unite as women to fight corruption in our country

Zakhona Mvelase
2 mins

Ukraine Crisis

UKRAINE UPDATE: 8 AUGUST 2022

Grain shipments kick into higher gear; nuclear plant shelled again
UKRAINE UPDATE: 1 AUGUST 2022

Putin announces new hypersonic missiles; Shelling kills Ukrainian grain magnate
UKRAINE UPDATE: 3 AUGUST 2022

Putin, Erdoğan set for Sochi grain talks; Le Pen calls for end to sanctions 
GEOPOLITICS OP-ED

From Russia with Lavrov – his ‘charm’ offensive in Africa should meet no love

THE CONVERSATION

Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study

Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Horowitz

OPINIONISTA

This is an era of great change for South Africa’s universities, and inclusive leadership is critical

Tshilidzi Marwala

UKRAINE UPDATE: 8 AUGUST 2022

Grain shipments kick into higher gear; nuclear plant shelled again

Bloomberg

THE CONVERSATION

Beyoncé is cutting a sample of Milkshake out of her new song – but not because she ‘stole’ it

Hayleigh Bosher

LIVE SMARTER

Brown noise, white noise, pink noise – debunking sonic hues

Sarah Hoek

NORTHERN EXPOSURE OP-ED

Killing off democracy by silencing civil society — the real implications of Zimbabwe’s PVO Bill

Tony Reeler, Dzikamai Bere and Musa Kika

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SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW

‘It took me three seconds to decide’ — Dr Fareed Abdullah reflects on three decades at the coalface of public health

Biénne Huisman
8 mins

OP-ED

Corporal punishment ban in SA schools, more than two decades later: More needs to be done

Gertrude Quan, Isabel Magaya and Mila Harding
6 mins

TO THE POLLS OP-ED

Kenyan elections — empower the youth instead of inciting violence 

Amy Oloo, Mohammed Ndifuna, Joy Muthoni and Richard Kasu
3 mins

DRAMATIC TURNAROUND

AngloGold’s Obuasi mine in Ghana maintains its Phoenix-like rise from the ashes

Ed Stoddard
3 mins

GAME OF THROES

Never-ending rugby season is the biggest threat to player welfare

Jon Cardinelli
7 mins

DISINFECTION ALERT 

Cape Town water warning: Time to boil the kettle and get out the bleach

Onke Ngcuka
5 mins

PHANTOM SHARES

The Finance Ghost: On the paper trail of Mondi and Sappi

The Finance Ghost
4 mins

DAYS OF BRUTALITY OP-ED

Ignoring the drivers and causes of violence is our undoing

Annah Moyo-Kupeta
5 mins

BUSINESS MAVERICK

MADAM & EVE

Race To The Bottom
AFTER THE BELL

Is Uber taking both you and its drivers for a ride?
FINANCIAL SERVICES

FSCA wraps up three-year investigation into Private Security Sector Provident Fund — and takes action
LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY

Transnet far from being financially and operationally sustainable despite ‘accounting profit’
AFTER THE BELL

I love my local oil company … said nobody, ever

MAVERICK CITIZEN

SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW

‘It took me three seconds to decide’ — Dr Fareed Abdullah reflects on three decades at the coalface of public health
GROUNDUP SERI UNDER FIRE

Joburg traders live in fear after lawyers defending evictions receive death threats
OPEN LETTER

Civil society organisations’ open letter to Ramaphosa about ongoing attacks against the sector
GROUNDUP UNION CLASH

Numsa court battle – Ruth Ntlokotse throws down gauntlet to Irvin Jim
EDUCATION OP-ED

Schools bill is no betrayal, it’s a belated move to update the law

OUR BURNING PLANET

CONSERVATIONIST VS DEPUTY PRESIDENT

Revealed: David Mabuza, Fred Daniel and the missing crime dockets
JUMBO OPERATION

Done and dusted – SA game capture experts shift 263 elephants in four weeks
DISINFECTION ALERT 

Cape Town water warning: Time to boil the kettle and get out the bleach
FUTURE CITIES

A Line in the sand: Saudi Arabia’s futuristic vertical city — or so it hopes
OPEN LETTER

Dear Barbara Creecy, how can we celebrate Women’s Day when our women’s and environmental rights are violated?

MAVERICK LIFE

FUTURE CITIES

A Line in the sand: Saudi Arabia’s futuristic vertical city — or so it hopes
A DIP IN THE OCEAN

The day Annemie Landmeters swam across False Bay
THE CONVERSATION

Mystery solved: When our mammal ancestors became warm-blooded
PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 31 of 2022
MUSIC

Orville Peck – the Promises of a Bez Valley Desperado

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Dissonance

All together now

Taliban Times

Pests in the House

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INTERVIEW

Volodymyr Zelensky: South Africa cannot remain neutral, has to condemn Russia’s aggression

Peter Fabricius
5 mins

FOOTBALL

DStv Premiership returns — some key takeaways from SA’s top-flight football league

Yanga Sibembe
4 mins

ZAPIRO

All together now

Zapiro

SPRINGBOK RUGBY

Boks set to compound All Blacks’ misery at Ellis Park citadel

Craig Ray
4 mins

SERVICE DELIVERY OP-ED

Water is life — how can we build collective power to turn our municipalities around?

Tinotenda M Muringani and Zoe Postman
5 mins

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 31 of 2022

Maverick Life Editors
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RUGBY

Brutal Boks destroy All Blacks despite red card

Craig Ray
4 mins

GROUNDUP UNION CLASH

Numsa court battle – Ruth Ntlokotse throws down gauntlet to Irvin Jim

James Stent for GroundUp
4 mins

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SCORPIO

SCORPIO

Ex Gauteng HoD Margaret-Ann Diedricks arrested over R7-million ‘kickbacks’ from Free State asbestos tender
SCORPIO ANALYSIS

Groundhog Day à la ANC — Prasa Chair Leonard Ramatlakane’s tall train lies
SCORPIO

Bounty Brands’ ‘dodgy’ dividend: R530m from doomed UIF investment flowed to shareholders’ offshore accounts
STATE CAPTURE

Gupta lawyers bow out as IDC’s R287m fight against Oakbay rolls into year five
SCORPIO

Pretoria family racket allegedly fleeced state using Sassa pensioners as front for dodgy police service providers

AMABHUNGANE

South Africa

The awful state of SA’s lawful telecoms interception, Part One
South Africa

High court ruling involving Zuma’s taxes may alter the ways of South Africa’s democracy
South Africa

Fuel thieves siphon off millions from Mpumalanga Eskom power station
South Africa

Prasa pays R3m to Mbalula’s administrator — just before court culls him
South Africa

Update: My big fat Gupta wedding – the movie

OPEN SECRETS

OPEN SECRETS OP-ED

Prasa’s legacy of whistle-blower victimisation and corruption cover-ups is off the rails
UNACCOUNTABLE #21

Bain & Company – the KGB of consulting
UNACCOUNTABLE #24

Auswell ‘tall trains’ Mashaba: The middleman who derailed Prasa
JULY RIOTS, ONE YEAR LATER

Business and communities still struggle to recover from July 2021 while alerts issued to avoid another insurrection
OPEN SECRETS: UNACCOUNTABLE #32

Refiloe Mokoena – the attorney on the wrong side of the law

Opinion

OPINIONISTA

Ramaphosa — the President of many summits and few outcomes
OPINIONISTA

South Africa’s public health system – a lonely, disempowering place that breeds anger and hopelessness
OPINIONISTA

Symptoms of a paranoid dictatorship: Why Numsa has degenerated
OPINIONISTA

Russian forces in Ukraine reveal their true faces of horror – as torture terrorists
Personal Finance: Questions and Answers

The Financial Wellness Coach: A legitimate way to avoid donations tax

africa

ISS TODAY ANALYSIS

Madagascar president’s spat with South Africa about more than gold smuggling
MOSCOW CALLING OP-ED

Africa needs to forge a unified approach to Russia before 2023 Russia-Africa Summit
CABO DELGADO INSURGENCY

SADC and Rwandan troops disperse Mozambique insurgents — but displace more civilians.
ISS TODAY ANALYSIS

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s African safari was not routine
GEOPOLITICS OP-ED

From Russia with Lavrov – his ‘charm’ offensive in Africa should meet no love

Coronavirus

SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW

‘It took me three seconds to decide’ — Dr Fareed Abdullah reflects on three decades at the coalface of public health
COVID-19

Health authorities confirm first vaccine-related death in South Africa
TRIBUTE

Retha Viviers — an angel and a warrior for ME sufferers left to suffer in silence
COVID-19

SA scientists analyse eight samples from coronavirus patients showing ‘novel mutations’
PANDEMIC GRAFT

Net tightens as SIU submits ‘supplementary report’ on Covid-19 procurement corruption to president

Sports

RUGBY

Brutal Boks destroy All Blacks despite red card
Ashleigh Buhai makes history at British Open

South African Buhai wins Women’s British Open in dramatic playoff
SPRINGBOK RUGBY

Boks set to compound All Blacks’ misery at Ellis Park citadel
COMMONWEALTH GAMES

‘I don’t get the appreciation and have come to terms with it’: Akani Simbine
FOOTBALL

Benni in the 18 area as he joins Manchester United as striker coach

TGIFOOD

TIME TRIP

The rediscovery of a French food legend in Jozi
WALTZING MELBOURNE

Lunch with the Neighbours? I should be so lucky
GOLDEN PASTA

What’s cooking today: Tagliatelle aglio e olio e peperoncino
FYN ACHIEVEMENT

Stars align in Japanese fusion for Tempelhoff’s FYN restaurant
GO GRK

It’s as fast as Greek gets – and you’ve never had pitas like these

MOTORING

MOTORING

Going for a song – the new Kia Sonet Turbo
LIVE SMARTER

What’s the hype with hybrid cars? A fast-track guide to going electric in SA
MOTORING

The Honda Ballade is back
MOTORING

Hyundai SA’s all-new high-performance Kona N is guaranteed to make you grin
MOTORING

Japanese upstart Suzuki topples its giant rival in SA sales

tongue in cheek

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Gwede Mantashe is right, Eskom 2.0 is our only option for the future
Media

Zapiro bares all on Muhammad cartoon in, you guessed it, another cartoon
Media

SA’s most famous showerhead sparks more debate
TONGUE IN CHEEK

Crack down on the scammers, they say, but the cops should lock up the greedy scammed moegoes
SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Gwede Mantashe is the disciplinarian South Africa needs

Judiciary in CRISIS

JUDICIARY IN CRISIS

On a mission from his God – Chief Justice Mogoeng’s message to South Africa: ‘We are bewitched’
Days of Zondo

Former SSA DG Arthur Fraser to break oath on ‘state secrets’, seeks indemnity, State Capture inquiry hears
JUDICIARY IN CRISIS

The rise and (slow) fall of John Hlophe, the judge who almost took the judiciary down with him
ANALYSIS

Why South Africa still has a chance
GROUNDUP EDITORIAL

South Africa’s justice system is showing signs of rot

In case you missed it

PUBLIC PROTECTOR IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Mpofu feels ‘ambushed’ as photo confirms that witness was with Mkhwebane at Vrede dairy inspection
PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE

New ANC KZN leader Siboniso Duma saves Cyril Ramaphosa from embarrassment
AFTER THE BELL

SA shocks the world by massively outperforming economically … and other tall stories
PUBLIC PROTECTOR IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Dali Mpofu drops mental health and criminal conduct bombs during Van Loggerenberg’s cross-examination
AFTER THE BELL

Coach Ramaphosa goes up against flagbearer Mbeki … and scores

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