Analysis: THE VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

Government’s go-slow on ‘insurrection’ paved the way for ministers’ hostage drama

Ferial Haffajee

3 mins

ABANDON SHIP

‘Pollution’ alarm as historic Cable Restorer sinking coincides with red tide

Julia Evans

HOMELESSNESS CRISIS

Cape Town housing protest dispersed as police fire stun grenades

Marecia Damons

THE VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

Military veteran hostage drama: Modise says charges won’t be dropped

Suné Payne

Missing Marmite: The end of the dearth is in sight

THE VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

ANC military veterans arrested after allegedly holding ministers hostage

HOMELESSNESS CRISIS

City of Cape Town inaction sees residents pay to house homeless

Analysis: THE VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

Government’s go-slow on ‘insurrection’ paved the way for ministers’ hostage drama

Steel Strike

Crippling steel strike intensifies as Numsa rejects improved salary increase offer

FINANCIAL SERVICES

64 and out: Liberty shareholders vote Yes to Standard Bank buy-out

PENSION FUNDS

South Africa’s private security sector leaves guards feeling unsafe and unprotected

HOMELESSNESS CRISIS

City of Cape Town inaction sees residents pay to house homeless

Ashraf Hendricks and Marecia Damons

THINLY SPREAD

Missing Marmite: The end of the dearth is in sight

Bianca Coleman

GARBAGE IN, FUEL OUT

How our waste could help drive the economy

Ethan van Diemen

OPINIONISTA

A tale of how a supermarket is helping the unemployed sell second-hand books

Imraan Buccus

SMALL SCREEN

This weekend we’re watching: A dark Danish comedy about drinking culture

Tevya Turok Shapiro

PENSION FUNDS

South Africa’s private security sector leaves guards feeling unsafe and unprotected

Neesa Moodley

Global news

EFF meets with Orania leaders

World

Cher Claims Mary Bono Is Trying to Seize Her Song Royalties

Newsdeck

Don’t just talk – act on climate, Queen Elizabeth signals to world leaders

World

‘There have to be consequences:’ Judge ups sentences for U.S. Capitol rioters

FOOD JUSTICE OP-ED

Covid-19 deepened the challenges faced by small-scale fishers in South Africa

Maia Nangle

NUTRITION INSECURITY

Food insecurity is not a Covid-related shock, but a chronic, systemic problem in South Africa

Jane Battersby

FOOTBALL: DStv Premiership

Every coach is under pressure, it is the nature of the job these days, says Chiefs’ Stuart Baxter

Yanga Sibembe

ANALYSIS: coups d’état

More coups likely in Africa unless AU addresses ‘unconstitutional preservation of power’ instances

Peter Fabricius

MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE

Old rivalries renewed and new challenges await at 17th Absa Cape Epic

Craig Ray

COVID JABS

Vaccinations to open for 12- to 17-year-olds next week

Estelle Ellis

South Africa Votes

2021 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

RET: Zuma plans big-bang show of popularity at welcome home prayer meeting

MADAM & EVE

When The T-shirt Hits The Fan

ROAD TO 2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS

Vereeniging brought to its knees by consistent blackouts, sanitation collapse and pollution

GROUND LEVEL REPORT

Municipal governance: Eastern Cape mayor sets her sights on a record seven clean audits in a row

ANALYSIS

Divided We Stand: DA and ANC internal pre-election pressures could cost them dearly

OP-ED: ROAD TO 2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS

If we want to remedy our current choiceless democracy, we must re-establish the link between politics and the people

LOTTERY LOOT

Lotteries Commission launches parallel probe into dodgy R10-million grant

BUSINESS MAVERICK

Steel Strike

Crippling steel strike intensifies as Numsa rejects improved salary increase offer

FINANCIAL SERVICES

64 and out: Liberty shareholders vote Yes to Standard Bank buy-out

PENSION FUNDS

South Africa’s private security sector leaves guards feeling unsafe and unprotected

LAND REFORM

Agri SA president tells annual congress that private property rights are non-negotiable

TEST DRIVE

Che Figo! The Italian legend lives on — meet the 2021 Alfa Romeo Giulia

MAVERICK CITIZEN

COVID JABS

Vaccinations to open for 12- to 17-year-olds next week

MAVERICK CITIZEN 168

Three months of living, breathing and dreaming the Sisonke study

BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM

Welcome to the wonderful world of vaccination. Here’s why young people should get the Covid jab

PARLIAMENT

South Africa shifts the Covid-19 vaccination goal posts to 70% of adults by Christmas

VACCINATIONALISM

Fear and confusion rife among foreign nationals about accessing Covid jab in South Africa

OUR BURNING PLANET

CHEETAH RELEASE

Running for their lives: Speed cats return to southern Mozambique after six decades

ABANDON SHIP

‘Pollution’ alarm as historic Cable Restorer sinking coincides with red tide

ROAD TO 2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS

Vereeniging brought to its knees by consistent blackouts, sanitation collapse and pollution

OPEN LETTER TO MINISTER CREECY

Nature, not humanity, is the source of life, and the purpose of conservation is to serve Nature

GARBAGE IN, FUEL OUT

How our waste could help drive the economy

MAVERICK LIFE

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Dr Zweli Mkhize needs our empathy right now. Thank you, Mr President

CEDERBERG

The curious case of the absent dead Englishman

OP-ED: OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

Letter from Mpumalanga: Restarting the locomotives of prosperity in a town above a waterfall

WAY OF THE WARRIOR

Why men need to belong – from SA to Japan, from the battlefield to the playing field

THE CONVERSATION

Work-life balance: what really makes us happy might surprise you

zapiro

Preach away

Poster boys

Oxymoron

The Screen

Seriously?

SCORPIO

R1.88m from Digital Vibes deal funnelled to May Mkhize’s farm loan — family’s ‘cut’ climbs to R8.7m

EDITORIAL

Beyond reasonable doubt: VBS scandal exposed Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu’s corrupt dealings

SCORPIO

Blame me, not Mr Atul: Ronica Ragavan’s astonishing legal intervention to shield her Gupta boss

SCORPIO

Digital Vibes: Zweli Mkhize’s pal splurged Covid funds on Gucci gear, Smeg appliances and monthslong holiday

SCORPIO EXCLUSIVE

R1m from Digital Vibes deal bankrolled hair salon, nail boutique for Minister Zweli Mkhize’s son, daughter-in-law

AMABHUNGANE

Africa

Pandora Papers: Inside Zimbabwean tycoon Billy Rautenbach’s offshore family trust

South Africa

Spooks get another lashing – ConCourt rules aspects of eavesdropping and spying indeed unlawful

South Africa

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

South Africa

Update: My big fat Gupta wedding – the movie

Politics

Intelligence committee report shows legislators knew of SSA malfeasance – and ‘bugging judge’ lifts lid on ongoing unsavoury wiretaps

GLOBAL INVESTIGATIONS

Declassified UK

REVEALED: The UK military’s overseas base network involves 145 sites in 42 countries

DECLASSIFIED UK

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper

Declassified UK

UK information operations in the time of coronavirus

DECLASSIFIED UK

‘Colonialism never ended’: The elite British cabal propping up a Gulf dictatorship

DECLASSIFIED UK

‘Nothing to hide here’: Inside the world’s largest arms fair in the heart of London

Opinion

OPINIONISTA

The JSC’s snubbing of David Unterhalter for the Constitutional Court is another rejection of intellectual capital

OPINIONISTA

As dark clouds gather, SA Reserve Bank needs to consider a rate hike to avoid risk from turning into a rout

OPINIONISTA

‘Foreplay’ judgment shows how problematic judicial views around consent in rape cases persists

OPINIONISTA

Changes to South Africa’s Companies Act: With greater transparency comes greater responsibility

OPINIONISTA

Voters can kiss accountability goodbye when politicians disappear once elections are over

africa

ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS — TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY

King Mswati may need to scrutinise Bhutan’s transitional approach to avoid complete catastrophe in Eswatini

MONTPELLIER SUMMIT

Macron touts new relationship with Africa – with mixed success

OP-ED Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism

An inconvenient truth: The real reason why Africa is not getting vaccinated (Part One)

COVID-19

From ‘fringe conspiracy theorist’ to ‘vaccine advocate’: tracking keyword conversations in six sub-Saharan countries

ANALYSIS: coups d’état

More coups likely in Africa unless AU addresses ‘unconstitutional preservation of power’ instances

Coronavirus

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

Net closing in on PPE looters after SARS and Hawks execute surprise pincer movement

LEST WE FORGET

ANC fails to stop the corruption train – 32 major scandals, four in 2021 alone

UNMASKED

Two men arrested after Cape Town anti-vax protest goes awry

WORLD HOMELESS DAY

The reality of living on the street in SA

Maverick Citizen: Coronavirus

UK will accept South African digital vaccine passport, health minister announces

Sports

MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE

Old rivalries renewed and new challenges await at 17th Absa Cape Epic

RUGBY: TAKEOVER

Total Zeltdown: WP Rugby placed under administration by Saru following leadership collapse

UNITED RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP

Player retention is key to South Africa’s success

TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Murray supports restrictions on unvaccinated players at Australian Open

FOOTBALL

Hungary fans misbehave; Senegal and Morocco finish at the summit of World Cup qualifying groups

TGIFOOD

KAROO DREAMING

The Hotel at the end of a Long Day’s Drive

THINLY SPREAD

Missing Marmite: The end of the dearth is in sight

RECIPE

What’s cooking today: Braai pot potato and peppers bake

RETRO KOS

Throwback Thursday: Soutribbetjie

SLOW COOK

What’s cooking today: Slow roasted shoulder of Karoo lamb with mint and pickled ginger

MOTORING

VROOM WITH A VIEW

Range Rover Sport SVR: I’m sorry, but this is quite a fun ride

TEST DRIVE

Che Figo! The Italian legend lives on — meet the 2021 Alfa Romeo Giulia

VROOM WITH A VIEW

Driving Volkswagen’s first GTi got me into gear for a trip down memory lane

A VROOM WITH A VIEW

The motor dragon: China’s shift to electric vehicles will rev up a revolution

MOTORING

Toyota Hilux D/Cab 2.8 GD-6 Raider 4×4 Manual: Benchmark bakkie

tongue in cheek

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Dr Zweli Mkhize needs our empathy right now. Thank you, Mr President

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Into Floyd Shivambu’s animal farm

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

You had me at Mbalusional: The anarchy in South Africa … ‘It didn’t happen’

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Dear Comrade Jessie Duarte, Ace Magashule deserves our compassion

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

The inaugural parliamentary Oscars

Judiciary in CRISIS

OP-ED: Activist judges

Judiciary’s mandate should include promotion of equity to counter courtroom inequality and ongoing social injustice

JUDICIARY IN CRISIS

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

FULL DISCLOSURE

Judges reveal their financial interests

JUDICIARY IN CRISIS

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

JUDGES MATTER OP-ED

Explainer: How the process to choose South Africa’s next chief justice will unfold

In case you missed it

SAPS IN CRISIS

Lieutenant-General Francinah Vuma declares all top positions ‘vacant’, excluding national and provincial commissioners

OP-ED: BABOONS AND HUMANS

Former Mafia-linked banker Vito Palazzolo tells South African government: ‘I’m back, but I’m no threat’

SCORPIO

R1.88m from Digital Vibes deal funnelled to May Mkhize’s farm loan — family’s ‘cut’ climbs to R8.7m

LEST WE FORGET

ANC fails to stop the corruption train – 32 major scandals, four in 2021 alone

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 September 2021

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 4 September 2021

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 11 September 2021

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 31 July 2021

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 1 May 2021

WEBINARS

Webinars

Johnny Clegg’s life is the story of a true scatterling of Africa

Webinars

Joining the Dots: Pravin Gordhan, Floyd Shivambu and the dodgy origins of the ‘Indian cabal’ narrative

Webinars

The Poisoners: an unfinished history of poisoning and ultimately a political story to be continued

Webinars

Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele: Falling in love while dreaming of a life of racial liberation

Webinars

World Rhino Day: Kruger National Park population numbers may have dropped to lowest yet

LOOK & LISTEN

Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 40 of 2021

Maverick Life

Coming soon: A harrowing war drama through the eyes of a UN translator

Webinars

Johnny Clegg’s life is the story of a true scatterling of Africa

Magazine

This weekend we’re watching: A dark Danish comedy about drinking culture

Maverick Life

This week we’re listening to: Five minute podcasts, for the time-constrained listener

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Analysis: THE VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

Government’s go-slow on ‘insurrection’ paved the way for ministers’ hostage drama

Ferial Haffajee

ABANDON SHIP

‘Pollution’ alarm as historic Cable Restorer sinking coincides with red tide

HOMELESSNESS CRISIS

Cape Town housing protest dispersed as police fire stun grenades

THE VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

Military veteran hostage drama: Modise says charges won’t be dropped

STRIKES

Steel federation says 6% wage increase offer is fair and final

Steel Strike

Crippling steel strike intensifies as Numsa rejects improved salary increase offer

UNITED RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP

Player retention is key to South Africa’s success

PRAYER POLITICS

Vote ANC despite current leadership behaviour, Zuma tells supporters in video link at rally of the faithful

ROAD TO 2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS: WEBINAR

Voting politicians out of office is an option, but there is no quick fix for local government failures

MADAM & EVE

Department of You Can’t Make This #@%& Up

NEWSFLASH

Military vets leader who took two ministers and a deputy minister hostage works for eThekwini Municipality

FINANCIAL SERVICES

64 and out: Liberty shareholders vote Yes to Standard Bank buy-out

TOP READS

Missing Marmite: The end of the dearth is in sight

ANC military veterans arrested after allegedly holding ministers hostage

City of Cape Town inaction sees residents pay to house homeless

Government’s go-slow on ‘insurrection’ paved the way for ministers’ hostage drama

Crippling steel strike intensifies as Numsa rejects improved salary increase offer

64 and out: Liberty shareholders vote Yes to Standard Bank buy-out

South Africa’s private security sector leaves guards feeling unsafe and unprotected

HOMELESSNESS CRISIS

City of Cape Town inaction sees residents pay to house homeless

THINLY SPREAD

Missing Marmite: The end of the dearth is in sight

GARBAGE IN, FUEL OUT

How our waste could help drive the economy

OPINIONISTA

A tale of how a supermarket is helping the unemployed sell second-hand books

SMALL SCREEN

This weekend we’re watching: A dark Danish comedy about drinking culture

PENSION FUNDS

South Africa’s private security sector leaves guards feeling unsafe and unprotected

PODCAST REVIEW

This week we’re listening to: Laughing through the pain with ‘The Hilarious World of Depression’

Sarah Hoek

OPINIONISTA

‘Squid Game’ and the other vast gambles we take in life

Haji Mohamed Dawjee

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 41 of 2021

Maverick Life Editors

OPINIONISTA

Jumping ship: Let’s not confuse investment with reparations

Lwando Xaso

Global news

EFF meets with Orania leaders

Cher Claims Mary Bono Is Trying to Seize Her Song Royalties

Don’t just talk – act on climate, Queen Elizabeth signals to world leaders

‘There have to be consequences:’ Judge ups sentences for U.S. Capitol rioters

FOOD JUSTICE OP-ED

Covid-19 deepened the challenges faced by small-scale fishers in South Africa

NUTRITION INSECURITY

Food insecurity is not a Covid-related shock, but a chronic, systemic problem in South Africa

FOOTBALL: DStv Premiership

Every coach is under pressure, it is the nature of the job these days, says Chiefs’ Stuart Baxter

ANALYSIS: coups d’état

More coups likely in Africa unless AU addresses ‘unconstitutional preservation of power’ instances

MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE

Old rivalries renewed and new challenges await at 17th Absa Cape Epic

COVID JABS

Vaccinations to open for 12- to 17-year-olds next week

UMUTHI SCANDAL

Hawks make arrests over Umuthi LSE listing debacle

THE VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

ANC military veterans arrested after allegedly holding ministers hostage

POLITICS VS POLICING

‘Rats run all over Western Cape police station’: DA hits back after Bheki Cele says province is most resourced