MATTERS OF THE ART

Artists Dada Khanyisa, William Kentridge heal Johannesburg’s wounds and put the Spring back in her step

7 min

2

By Ferial Haffajee

INNER-CITY FIRE ANALYSIS

City of Joburg shuttered task team that should have cleaned up building in which 73 died

3 min

32

By Ferial Haffajee

JOBURG COUNCIL CHAOS EXPLAINER

Mpho Phalatse walks, Champagne corks pop and the SA Multi-Party Charter teeters

4 min

18

By Ferial Haffajee

ANALYSIS

New mayor loading for Joburg as coalitions shift ahead of 2024 elections

2 min

7

By Ferial Haffajee

PHALA PHALA

Reserve Bank’s buffalo-sized Phala Phala cop-out puts President Ramaphosa in the clear

3 min

21

By Ferial Haffajee

DAILY MAVERICK WEBINAR

City of Joburg's Floyd Brink highlights challenges of service delivery and revenue collection

4 min

7

By Nonkululeko Njilo

ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS

Ramaphosa will use BRICS Summit to make clear a second-term bid in 2024

4 min

7

By Ferial Haffajee

PROTECTED DISCLOSURE

Did City MMC and Youth League leader instruct Johannesburg Property Company to pay for ANCYL function?

4 min

17

By Ferial Haffajee

ANALYSIS

Who’s in charge of SA — ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula or President Cyril Ramaphosa?

3 min

43

By Ferial Haffajee

DAILY MAVERICK INTERVIEW

It’s possible now to see a future without load shedding – Eskom chair Mpho Makwana

10 min

53

By Ferial Haffajee

STRUGGLING GIANT

Johannesburg’s emergency call for engineers, gas-detection experts after CBD explosion exposes dire skills gap

4 min

55

By Ferial Haffajee

ANALYSIS

Coalition chaos - Will 2023 be Joburg’s Year of the Four Mayors?

5 min

11

By Ferial Haffajee

BUDGET BLUES

SA’s largest city may not be able to pay its debt, warns Johannesburg finance boss

4 min

7

By Ferial Haffajee

WATT THE F#*K

Electricity crisis: Here’s the light at the end of the tunnel

2 min

12

By Ferial Haffajee

POWER CRISIS ANALYSIS

Johannesburg residents get a foretaste of what national grid failure feels like

5 min

26

By Ferial Haffajee

DEBT & DISORDER

Elections material company gets a third writ of attachment against ANC, this time for R150-million

3 min

30

By Ferial Haffajee

LITFEST

An insider look at ‘The Outsider’, ‘Truth to Power’ and time spent with Ella Blumenthal

4 min

0

By Ferial Haffajee

WAR IN UKRAINE

Russia relay — Presidency’s intelligence minister jets off to Moscow a week after the army chief’s visit

2 min

23

By Ferial Haffajee

POWER CRISIS

De Ruyter: Gordhan and national security adviser knew about top politicians’ links to Eskom rent-seeking

3 min

65

By Ferial Haffajee

COMRADES IN ARMS

Pro-Russia hawks in ANC likely to push back against US after ambassador’s outburst

3 min

90

By Ferial Haffajee

THEATRE

William Kentridge’s provocative and disruptive ‘The Head and the Load’ finally comes to the city of his birth

5 min

0

By Ferial Haffajee