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AMABHUNGANE

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy: How State Capture hobbled Alexkor

Micah Reddy for amaBhungane
20 mins

JULY RIOTS

Some of Mapisa-Nqakula’s evidence at SAHRC unrest hearings was pure fabrication – KZN police chief

Des Erasmus

OPINIONISTA

Final destination: Travel will be the end of us

Hans Mackenzie Main

OPINIONISTA

A constitutional duty: The case for mandatory vaccination

Omphemetse S Sibanda

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ANALYSIS

RET Twitter accounts fire salvos at CABC, Daily Maverick and City Press in puzzling legal challenge

Rebecca Davis
6 mins

COVID-19

First Omicron variant cases identified in the Western Cape

Estelle Ellis
2 mins

PARLIAMENT

Home Affairs promises less downtime and shorter queues — but questions remain

Marianne Merten
5 mins

VACCINE INEQUITY

The Omicron variant, knee-jerk reactions and travel bans

J Brooks Spector
11 mins

OMICRON REACTION

President Ramaphosa slams travel bans on South Africa ahead of whirlwind tour of West Africa

Carien du Plessis and Victoria O’Regan
3 mins

WORLD AIDS DAY OP-ED

Ring the alarm bells: If South Africa fails to end AIDS by 2030, pandemics will defeat us

Judi Nwokedi and Knut Seifert
5 mins

DIGITAL VIBES

Disciplinary inquiry clears Health Director-General Sandile Buthelezi of all charges, lifts suspension

Mark Heywood
4 mins

TOP READS

Omicron

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
OMICRON

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THE HOT SEAT

Ekurhuleni’s DA mayor faces ‘mammoth’ task after ‘shock’ votes from EFF, ActionSA
JULY RIOTS

Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole: ‘It’s not necessarily a gross dereliction of duty, it was a shortcoming of intelligence’
OMICRON REACTION

‘It’s heartbreaking — people are devastated’: OR Tambo airline passengers hard hit by travel ban
CROSS-BORDER CRIME FILES: PART ONE

KZN border area under siege: Car theft syndicates abduct – and kill – to feed Mozambique smuggling route
JUDICIARY IN CRISIS

Hlophe’s legal bills pile up, questions are asked of his behaviour in gang bail matter, while six top judges join court case

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Makhanda High Court to hear urgent interdict against Shell’s seismic survey

Tembile Sgqolana

R42M PAYMENT

PP dismisses claims Eskom failed to investigate misconduct allegations against COO Jan Oberholzer

Karabo Mafolo

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Shell-shocked

Nathi and Africartoons

JULY RIOTS

Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole: ‘It’s not necessarily a gross dereliction of duty, it was a shortcoming of intelligence’

Des Erasmus

OPINIONISTA

Unholy political alliances pose a real danger to our young democracy

Oscar van Heerden

AGE OF THE ASSASSIN

Babita Deokaran murder: Six in court for bail bid
3 mins

Omicron

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
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QUARTERLY LABOUR FORCE SURVEY

Economic horror show: South Africa’s unemployment rate hits new record of 34.9%
2 mins

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

EU reports mild Omicron symptoms; South Africa registers 4,373 new cases
8 mins

Global news

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Omicron symptoms

Omicron ‘Mild’ So Far, Experts Say, But WHO Urges Caution
pirates

Danish frigate kills four pirates in Gulf of Guinea
Biden and Omicron

Biden Cautions Against ‘Panic’ Over Omicron, Urges Boosters

TRANSFORMATION HEARINGS

Private sector lagging behind in promoting workplace gender equality, commission finds

Michelle Banda

GROUNDBREAKING AGREEMENT

‘Incredible milestone’: Aspen to produce Covid vaccines for Africa in Gqeberha

Sasha Planting

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THE HOT SEAT

Ekurhuleni’s DA mayor faces ‘mammoth’ task after ‘shock’ votes from EFF, ActionSA

Jo-Mangaliso Mdhlela

OPINIONISTA

Philosophical underpinnings of Western Cape government’s response to Covid-19 set it apart

Mireille Wenger

IMPORT PARITY PRICE

Competition Commission puts the brakes on sale of Sasol’s cyanide business to Czech company

Sasha Planting

CROSS-BORDER CRIME FILES: PART ONE

KZN border area under siege: Car theft syndicates abduct – and kill – to feed Mozambique smuggling route

Daily Maverick Reporters

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OPINIONISTA

The UK’s Omicron travel ban: Science or partisan politics?

Remy Daroowala
4 mins

CONNECTIVITY

Possible internet slowdown averted as Icasa appeases mobile operators on spectrum

Ray Mahlaka
3 mins

PARLIAMENT

Land claimants still in the dark about date of return to District Six

Suné Payne
3 mins

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Forthcoming UCT decision could set the tone for fossil fuel divestment in South Africa

David le Page for Fossil Free UCT and UCT Green Campus Initi
3 mins

OMICRON

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico

Rico
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OPINIONISTA

Rassie Erasmus Ban: World Rugby stuck in the dark ages despite embracing game-changing technology

Toby Shapshak
3 mins

BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM

A guide to HIV: Top 10 facts, from prevention and treatment to a possible cure

Nomathemba Chandiwana, Bronwyn Bosch, Simiso Sokhela and Francois Venter
8 mins

VROOM WITH A VIEW

Audi’s new e-tron: When familiarity signals the remarkable

Alexander Parker
5 mins

BUSINESS MAVERICK

OMICRON

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
Maverick Citizen: Op-ed

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis
AMABHUNGANE

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy: How State Capture hobbled Alexkor
OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Shell to go ahead with Wild Coast seismic survey despite backlash and Express Petroleum pullout
BARGAIN DEALS

Buyout of South African companies by foreign investors continues apace

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Omicron

Prof Salim Abdool Karim: SA was ‘not caught with our pants down’, while hospital numbers continue to show unvaccinated at higher risk
Maverick Citizen: Op-ed

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis
SISONKE TRIAL

Festive season roll-out: Covid vaccine boosters will only be available to public in mid-December
GroundUp: CORONAVIRUS

Undocumented immigrants: ‘No one is informing us what we should do to get the jabs’
CORONAVIRUS

Covid-19 cases spike in Gauteng, with South Africa’s positivity rate edging closer to 5%

OUR BURNING PLANET

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Shell to go ahead with Wild Coast seismic survey despite backlash and Express Petroleum pullout
BUSINESS MAVERICK

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Shell-shocked
OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Makhanda High Court to hear urgent interdict against Shell’s seismic survey
OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Choppy waters: More coastal surveys in the pipeline for South Africa

MAVERICK LIFE

BOOK EXTRACT

Deep Collusion by Athol Williams: Bain was ‘right at the centre of strategising and planning projects that would facilitate state capture’
SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Mr Steenhuisen is the boss South Africa needs
LESSONS FROM MY FATHER

The man with (nearly) all the answers: Samuel Johannes Jacobus Jantjies
Mental Health

Obsessive-compulsive disorder: What it is and what to do if you suffer from its symptoms
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Collision Politics

New Variant

Shocked again

Coalition Country

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SPOTLIGHT OP-ED

Budget impact: Crucial funding must be allocated to treat drivers of HIV in South Africa

Mbali Baduza and Julia Chaskalson
6 mins

SPOTLIGHT

Ritshidze report reveals modest improvements at dysfunctional Gauteng clinics but nurse shortages, long waiting times persist

Thabo Molelekwa for Spotlight
6 mins

OPINIONISTA

Vaccination drive should make South Africa immune to another booze ban

Ed Stoddard
7 mins

MINE SAFETY

Missing workers: Two miners rescued at Implats following ‘mud rush’, bodies of three others recovered

Ed Stoddard
2 mins

ADOLESCENT INOCULATION

Education depends on young people accessing Covid vaccines, says Section27 in bid to stop ACDP application

Greg Nicolson
4 mins

ISS TODAY ANALYSIS

Reestablishing and implementing the rule of law will serve as the cornerstone to South Africa’s renewal

Andrew Faull for ISS Today
4 mins

GROUNDUP

Clothing union Sactwu reports 74% Covid vaccination rate among users of union clinic

James Stent for GroundUp
2 mins

NUCLEAR REVAMP

R20bn life extension of Koeberg power station poses significant risks for South Africa

Chris Yelland
5 mins

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SCORPIO

SCORPIO

Gupta Inc strikes again with high court victory in ongoing Optimum battle
SCORPIO

Testimony of Insure Group Managers chief at VBS inquiry seems to imply a lack of honesty and integrity
SCORPIO

NPA vs Regiments Capital: A dress rehearsal for one of State Capture’s biggest trials
Scorpio

Wife of Ace Magashule’s murdered ‘bagman’ in R20m SARS bind
SCORPIO

High court battle kicks off to claw back Insure Group Managers’ R1.2bn nest egg

AMABHUNGANE

South Africa

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

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy: How State Capture hobbled Alexkor
South Africa

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

Update: My big fat Gupta wedding – the movie
Africa

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

OPEN SECRETS

UNACCOUNTABLE #21

Bain & Company – the KGB of consulting
OPEN SECRETS: UNACCOUNTABLE #30

Sfiso Buthelezi, the MP who derailed Prasa
UNACCOUNTABLE #24

Auswell ‘tall trains’ Mashaba: The middleman who derailed Prasa
OPEN SECRETS UNACCOUNTABLE #18

KPMG – How a Big Four auditing firm went rogue in its greed for profit
UNACCOUNTABLE #23

How Prasa was looted and left for scrap

Opinion

OPINIONISTA

Mogoeng Mogoeng enters the political realm at his peril — he is still subject to the Judicial Code of Conduct
OPINIONISTA

The handling of a false South African news report about 10 babies has set off alarm bells
OPINIONISTA

Play the game, not the man: Eskom’s André De Ruyter needs all the support he can get if load shedding is to become a thing of the past
OPINIONISTA

Rassie Erasmus Ban: World Rugby stuck in the dark ages despite embracing game-changing technology
OPINIONISTA

Newly graduated doctors are in limbo as Department of Health fails in its duty to place them in service

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ISS TODAY ANALYSIS

Gaddafi Jnr’s bid for president signals waning influence of ICC
HORN OF AFRICA VIOLENCE

Four scenarios and the funeral(s): Ethiopian powder keg is ready to explode in tragic ways
THE HEART OF ZIMBABWE

Blessing Munyenyiwa: Victoria Falls’ innovator, conservationist and man with a mission
DECLASSIFIED UK

Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya
GLOBAL NEWS AND VIEWS

Presidential race: The ghost of Muammar Gaddafi stalks Libya

Coronavirus

Omicron

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
THE SCIENTISTS COLLECTIVE

Advice to Government: SA can get through the Covid-19 maze ahead of the festive season – here’s how
COVID-19 UPDATE

Worrying variant of coronavirus, with many unknown mutations, driving resurgence of infections in Gauteng
COVID-19 UPDATE

UK’s ‘knee-jerk’ Red List temporary ban throws South African travellers, tourism industry and airlines into a muddle
Maverick Citizen: Op-ed

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis

Sports

SPORT AWARDS

Seventh heaven as Messi clinches record Ballon d’Or award
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RUGBY

Springboks – Tests highlight challenges for defending world champs in 2023
FOOTBALL

Ballon d’Or 2021 favourite Robert Lewandowski faces stiff competition
RUGBY

Blitzboks win in Dubai while Omicron uncertainty shakes world sport

TGIFOOD

CABBAGE COMFORT

Throwback Thursday: Ouma onder die kombers (meatballs in cabbage leaves)
CURRY FLAVOUR

What’s cooking today: Brinjal coconut curry with yellow rice
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MUFFIN BETTER

What’s cooking today: Chocolate-coffee muffins
KAROO DREAMING

Kosmik Karoo: Welcome to the Dinner Party in the Sky

MOTORING

TEST DRIVE

Un bakkie très élégant: The new Peugeot Landtrek
VROOM WITH A VIEW

Audi’s new e-tron: When familiarity signals the remarkable
VROOM WITH A VIEW

After the ICE age: Toyota launches Corolla Cross in the wake of the demise of the internal combustion engine
VROOM WITH A VIEW

The Mercedes V-Class is some kind of wonderful, but the hefty price puts it out of reach
VROOM WITH A VIEW

Owning an electric vehicle could become easy like sundae morning

tongue in cheek

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Mr Steenhuisen is the boss South Africa needs
Media

SA’s most famous showerhead sparks more debate
Grey but unscathed

Tannie Evita emerges from lockdown
SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Into Floyd Shivambu’s animal farm
MAVERICK LIFE INTERVIEW

Mike van Graan on satire, collective catharsis and political megaphones

Judiciary in CRISIS

JUDICIARY IN CRISIS

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

State Capture Inquiry dismisses ex-spy boss Arthur Fraser’s attacks on Zondo
TOP JUDICIAL POST

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is out of the Chief Justice contest
Judiciary in Crisis

WC Judge President John Hlophe accuses Chief Justice Mogoeng of perjury and conspiracy
CHIEF JUSTICE SHORTLIST

Casac, Helen Suzman Foundation submit concerns that Mkhwebane and Hlophe ‘not fit and proper’ contenders for top ConCourt post

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2021 ELECTIONS

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Herman Mashaba’s Action SA is a breakout story of election – the count continues
SAPS IN CRISIS

Zuma’s Crime Intelligence cash-splashing looters at 2012 Mangaung and 2017 Nasrec conferences to be arrested
2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS ANALYSIS

RET knives out for Ramaphosa: Zuma faction mobilises to blame party president for poor ANC showing

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