YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Daily Maverick Readers Speak – Gift of the Givers’ Imtiaz Sooliman for President 6 min 4 By Ferial Haffajee, Sahra Heuwel and Janet Heard
MORE HOT AIR? COP29 reaches deal on carbon credit rules, but critics brand it a ‘false solution’ 6 min 0 By Ethan van Diemen
ECONOMIC GROWTH Positive investment case for renewable energy lifts capital spending by private sector 4 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
TOUR DE FARCE What a stinker of a year — but perhaps 2024 can be our 1994 11 min 22 By Marianne Thamm
RECIPES OF THE YEAR People’s Choice: The TGIFood recipes you loved the most in 2023 6 min 1 By Unknown Author
DAILY MAVERICK INTERVIEW It’s possible now to see a future without load shedding – Eskom chair Mpho Makwana 10 min 53 By Ferial Haffajee
PARLIAMENT Resistance and lack of coordination in government allow continued corruption at Eskom, says retired SAPS brigadier 4 min 35 By Marianne Merten
NATIONAL CALAMITY OP-ED South Africa’s polycrisis – we have to stop the fall before we can begin to rise 5 min 1 By Ann Bernstein
LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE CRISIS Eskom, Transnet ex-board members blame ‘meddling’ Minister Gordhan for executive exodus at dysfunctional SOEs 9 min 35 By Ray Mahlaka
PARLIAMENT Scopa dismisses national security concerns and moves to get retired brigadier Jap Burger to testify on Eskom corruption 4 min 0 By Marianne Merten
REFLECTION After the Bell: How a loss of confidence in Transnet CEO Portia Derby saw her run out of track 4 min 1 By Ray Mahlaka
FIVAZ DOSSIER Eskom’s contested private intelligence files clearly ‘cannot be ignored’, SIU chief tells Parliament 2 min 27 By Kevin Bloom
LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR It’s time to wake up and humbly accept our vulnerability and fragility of existence 3 min 2 By Heather Robertson
PARLIAMENT SAPS brigadier cocks a snook at Scopa, invoking national security, and calls for MPs to be disciplined 4 min 14 By Marianne Merten
POWER POSITION Former Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer lands top renewable energy role 2 min 7 By Daily Maverick Reporter
POWER CRISIS Eskom and its COO Jan Oberholzer to ‘part ways by mutual agreement’ 2 min 14 By Victoria O’Regan
ANALYSIS Teflon Gwede Mantashe appears to lead a charmed life despite his frequent (deliberate?) missteps 4 min 14 By Stephen Grootes
ZONDO REPORT, ONE YEAR LATER State Capture 2.0: The corruption warning lights are flashing on the SA political patronage system 7 min 15 By Ferial Haffajee
PARLIAMENT Brigadier AWOL from probe into De Ruyter Eskom allegations, but MPs aren’t buying his claim of ‘safety fears’ 4 min 4 By Marianne Merten