Business Maverick

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

What happens to SA’s debt and that of emerging markets if Russia defaults?

Tim Cohen
3 mins

FINANCIAL RESULTS

Banks optimistic on economy despite fears that SA is becoming a failed state

Ray Mahlaka

LIFE COVER

Insurance industry resilient despite billions paid out in death claims during Covid-19

Sasha Planting

COLLISION COURSE

Road Accident Fund’s medical experts launch campaign to recoup millions owed to them

Angus Begg

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HEALTHCARE FRAUD

How to protect your medical aid scheme account from fraudsters

Neesa Moodley
5 mins

OPINIONISTA

Education provides choice, and without that privilege there are fewer opportunities

Sasha Planting
3 mins

PHANTOM SHARES

The Finance Ghost: Numbers from TFG, Virgin Active and Shoprite add up

The Finance Ghost
4 mins

CRYPTOCURRENCY

Crypto companies defy the Russian disinvestment trend

Sasha Planting
5 mins

OPINIONISTA

Russia’s war in Ukraine will spark food and energy crises in South Africa

Natale Labia
4 mins

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

South Africa the world’s most unequal country – World Bank report

Ed Stoddard
5 mins

OPINIONISTA

How China can end the war in Ukraine

Stephen S Roach
4 mins

TOP business stories

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

South Africa the world’s most unequal country – World Bank report
COLLISION COURSE

Road Accident Fund’s medical experts launch campaign to recoup millions owed to them
BUTTERFLY EFFECT

What happens to SA’s debt and that of emerging markets if Russia defaults?
TEST DRIVE

Mercedes-Benz SA launches its premium C-Class sedan — a new baby S-Class
PHANTOM SHARES

The Finance Ghost: Numbers from TFG, Virgin Active and Shoprite add up
CANCELLED FLIGHTS

Grounded: SA Civil Aviation Authority suspends Comair operations indefinitely
TELEVISION WATCH OP-ED

The big analogue TV switch-off is over-hasty and will be a disaster

OPINIONISTA

Corrected:The Optimum solution – Lessons in the complexities of money laundering

Tim Cohen

CANCELLED FLIGHTS

Grounded: SA Civil Aviation Authority suspends Comair operations indefinitely

Ethan van Diemen

TELEVISION WATCH OP-ED

The big analogue TV switch-off is over-hasty and will be a disaster

Azola Dayile and Justine Limpitlaw

PERPLEXED PROTEST

Jobless youth heading to Parliament unknowingly join Sekunjalo’s #RacistBanksMustFall march

Karabo Mafolo

COMPANIES

Oceana’s long-awaited financial results finally wash up
3 mins

OBITUARY

Renowned business leader Michael Spicer, who played an instrumental role in SA transition to democracy, dies
4 mins

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

SA’s current account surplus narrows in Q4 2021 – SARB
3 mins

CRITICAL SKILLS OP-ED

Yes, we need scarce-skill immigrants like sheep shearers and engineers, but we must also strengthen our education system
5 mins

Global news

Ukraine Crisis

Ukraine update: Russia says half its foreign reserves are frozen, while President Zelensky warns Ukrainians against collaborating
Newsdeck

Kremlin calls anti-war protest on state TV ‘hooliganism’
Newsdeck

Ukraine Update: Russia Asking China for Military Aid, U.S. Says
Newsdeck

War could be over by May, says Ukrainian presidential adviser

GLOBAL ECONOMY OP-ED

The winners and losers in the war-torn commodity price turmoil

MEDICAL INSURANCE

TymeBank expands into health insurance with digital healthcare offering

VROOM WITH A VIEW

Volkswagen Polo grows up to be a premium professional in South Africa

OPINIONISTA

The monetary consequences of Vladimir Putin

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TEST DRIVE

Mercedes-Benz SA launches its premium C-Class sedan — a new baby S-Class

Melinda Ferguson
5 mins

OPINIONISTA

Elon Musk gets internet access into Ukraine warzone with Starlink satellites

Toby Shapshak
3 mins

ZAPIRO

Faking it

Zapiro

RMB/BER INDEX

Business confidence rises in first quarter of 2022 but remains in negative territory

Ed Stoddard
3 mins

INTERIM RESULTS

New business and expense management drive Momentum Metropolitan’s spectacular recovery

Neesa Moodley
3 mins

Business Maverick

Aspen delivers positive growth in its first half

Sasha Planting
3 mins

OPINIONISTA

Diplomacy remains the only prudent option to avoid catastrophe in Ukraine

Jeffrey D Sachs
4 mins

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

The 2024 elections suddenly got much more complicated for South Africa’s Big Three
2021 Local Elections

Power and houses: How ANC, Good and DA Cape Town mayoral candidates are angling for your vote
2021 Local Elections

Cape Town’s youngest mayor yet, but an old DA hand – ‘excited’ Geordin Hill-Lewis is ready for the hot seat
2021 Local Elections

It’s by-election Super Wednesday in South Africa
2021 Local Elections

The biggest winners and losers of South Africa’s local government polls
2021 Local Elections

Update and Apology: No friend of the homeless – The FF Plus candidate accused of online bullying and harassment
2021 Local Elections

South Africa’s construction mafia sets its sights on local government extortion

BUSINESS MAVERICK

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South Africa the world’s most unequal country – World Bank report
South Africa

Grounded: SA Civil Aviation Authority suspends Comair operations indefinitely
South Africa

What happens to SA’s debt and that of emerging markets if Russia defaults?
DM168

The Finance Ghost: Numbers from TFG, Virgin Active and Shoprite add up
South Africa

Road Accident Fund’s medical experts launch campaign to recoup millions owed to them

MAVERICK CITIZEN

GROUNDUP COVID-19

CCMA upholds another dismissal over refusal to vaccinate
Covid shots in the dark

Dose of discrimination: Why the government failed to reach its vaccination targets
GROUNDUP COVID-19

Dismissal of employee refusing mandatory workplace vaccination ruled as fair by CCMA
CORONAVIRUS

‘Measures to prevent infection failed’ – study finds 85% of Gauteng residents were likely infected in first three Covid-19 waves
GroundUp Covid Analysis

How South Africa differs from the rest of Africa in recording and using coronavirus data

OUR BURNING PLANET

World

The sixth mass extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us
Ukraine Crisis

Mineral Resources leverages Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to insist SA must find its own oil
Maverick Life

The ghost elephants haunting Angola
South Africa

Food systems in South Africa require a regional strategy in the face of climate change
Africa

Once-threatened cranes make a comeback in South Africa, thanks to conservationists’ efforts

MAVERICK LIFE

South Africa

Grounded: SA Civil Aviation Authority suspends Comair operations indefinitely
South Africa

Endurance’s watery grave: SA Agulhas II plays major role as Shackleton’s legendary ship is found after 108 years
Sport

Tackling 34km of icy cold water by swim
Maverick Life

Magic mushrooms: A Wild Coast journey
Maverick Life

Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall’s Spoilt Ballots: 200 years of electoral dysfunction in South Africa

editor’s notes

OPINIONISTA

Corrected:The Optimum solution – Lessons in the complexities of money laundering
OPINIONISTA

The rouble is rubble – but do economic sanctions work?
OPINIONISTA

Who is responsible for South Africa’s decadelong disaster?
OPINIONISTA

The emigration of South African youth is becoming an unspoken crisis
OPINIONISTA

Seriti deal shows just how badly Australia’s South32 wants to exit South Africa
OPINIONISTA

Death and labour disputes tarnish Blyvooruitzicht gold mine’s shine
OPINIONISTA

Here’s why a wealth tax is a stunningly poor idea for South Africa

OPINIONISTA

The Financial Wellness Coach: Offshore portfolio jitters and a home loan dilemma

Kenny Meiring
2 mins

OPINIONISTA

IOL’s actions are a SLAPP in the face of free speech and the Press Code of Ethics

Styli Charalambous
3 mins

OPINIONISTA

Putin’s prospects for sustaining his war on Ukraine seem limited

Daniel Gros
4 mins

STATE OF THE NEWSROOM

Media industry’s financial position is grim, but signs of renewal on the horizon

Georgina
5 mins

OPINIONISTA

Transparency and accountability are fundamental for the use of algorithms in the public sector

Gabriella Razzano
3 mins

DIGITAL CURRENCY

US executive order on crypto hailed by sector, despite being ‘short on clarity’

Akayla Gardner and Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg
4 mins

RETAIL

Shoprite bounces back from devastation of July looting

Sasha Planting
4 mins

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SCORPIO

South Africa

Exposed: Zweli Mkhize’s R6m ‘cut’ from PIC’s R1.4bn deal using Unemployment Insurance Fund money
SCORPIO

VBS Theft, Money Laundering & Life’s Little Luxuries: Julius Malema’s time of spending dangerously
South Africa

R1.8bn Unemployment Insurance Fund monies lost in PIC’s Zweli Mkhize-linked Bounty Brands bet
South Africa

Gupta loot: Eskom backtracks from 2020 deal backing Optimum Coal rescue plan
DM168

The other Vrede scandal: Zuma Inc’s cash flows from Free State RDP housing project 

AMABHUNGANE

South Africa

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

Update: My big fat Gupta wedding – the movie
South Africa

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

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy – the coal gambit: How State Capture hobbled Alexkor (Part Two)
South Africa

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy: How State Capture hobbled Alexkor (Part One)

GLOBAL INVESTIGATIONS

Declassified UK

Revealed: UK ignored Chechnya war crimes to push BP’s oil interests as it worked to get Vladimir Putin elected in 2000
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
Africa

Cameroon: The corrupt and brutal Central African state is run by five men — with support from the United Kingdom
Declassified UK

UK information operations in the time of coronavirus

SPORTS

Sport

Tackling 34km of icy cold water by swim
DM168

South Africa’s top players face tough choice between Proteas and IPL
South Africa

Five-star Kapp propels Proteas women to victory over world champions England
World

The unforgettable act of kindness Shane Warne displayed to me as a cub reporter
South Africa

SA Rugby: Return of crowds vital to save the sport from bankruptcy in 2022

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

Throwback Thursday: Macaroni Cheese
TGIFood

Find me, wag my dog, eat my food
TGIFood

Missing Marmite: The Soda Ash Edition
TGIFood

The hybrid Pantry that purrs
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Twice-cooked picanha steaks

MOTORING

South Africa

Mercedes-Benz SA launches its premium C-Class sedan — a new baby S-Class
Business Maverick

Fancy that – turns out the new Toyota Prado is indeed better off-road than a Renault Sandero
Business Maverick

Land Rover: Defender of the faith
South Africa

Spaceship MPV — the new Hyundai Staria
Business Maverick

Automotive inequality: Suzuki’s David, the new Swift, and AMG’s Goliath, the Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 4MATIC+

TOP READS THIS WEEK

South Africa

It’s orange-overall time in Free State as NPA hunts down and prosecutes State Capture corruption
DM168

ANC politicians’ kids showered with favours, gifts and contracts thanks to State Capture cash
South Africa

Malema and Mpofu’s insulting JSC overreach opened the doors for Zondo’s appointment as Chief Justice
DM168

Sibanye-Stillwater’s Froneman speaks out – ‘South Africa is a failed state with no leadership’
DM168

Don’t shoot the messenger of Covid-19 new variants, say SA scientists

AFRICA

Webinars

Lack of democratic reform in Eswatini likely to fuel greater unrest – activists
Africa

The 2023 Zimbabwe elections — Zanu-PF’s authoritarian tactics already in play
Africa

Zimbabwe’s new political party, Citizens Coalition for Change, sparks fear and violence from Zanu-PF
Ukraine Crisis

How Russia lost its way in the fog of war — lessons on strategy from Ukraine
Africa

Zanu-PF accused of gangsterism in orgy of violence as Zimbabwe by-elections loom

Coronavirus

DM168

Don’t shoot the messenger of Covid-19 new variants, say SA scientists
COVID-19

SA left to languish as deadline for ending (or extending) National State of Disaster looms
COVID-19

Why South Africa’s state clinics probably won’t be using this Covid-19 pill
COVID-19

CCMA upholds another dismissal over refusal to vaccinate
COVID-19

State of disaster extension shows government doesn’t understand pandemic, says expert

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 9 January 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 4 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – TGIF, 8 May 2020
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 11 September 2021

WEBINARS

Ukraine Crisis

Somewhere, something is gonna blow: Your questions on Putin’s War answered, sorta
Webinars

Lack of democratic reform in Eswatini likely to fuel greater unrest – activists
South Africa

Bain & Co whistle-blower Athol Williams: ‘South Africans need to act and say they want their country back’
Webinars

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

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

LOOK & LISTEN

DM168

Sex, drugs and rotten trolls: Celebrity gossipers send digital standards down the tubes
South Africa

Bain & Co whistle-blower Athol Williams: ‘South Africans need to act and say they want their country back’
Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 07 of 2022
Ukraine Crisis

War and the world: More podcasts that unpack the Ukraine crisis
Maverick Life

Venerating eccentricity: Mike Mill’s newest film in black and white, C’mon C’mon

In case you missed it

Ukraine Crisis

Pretoria scrambles to repair relations with Russia after calling for invasion forces to leave Ukraine
South Africa

United States slaps down Ramaphosa’s criticism of Biden’s pre-war Russia diplomacy  
South Africa

Outbreaks of typhoid fever confirmed in Western Cape and North West
South Africa

It’s orange-overall time in Free State as NPA hunts down and prosecutes State Capture corruption
DM168

ANC politicians’ kids showered with favours, gifts and contracts thanks to State Capture cash

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

Zondo report illustrates SA’s eternal existential battle of Right vs Might
DM168

As Ramaphosa harbours vain hope of fixing a sputtering ANC, we must heed Zondo’s warning
South Africa

Judge Zondo hauls Lindiwe Sisulu over the coals for ‘unwarranted attack’ on African judiciary
South Africa

Showdown looms after Lindiwe Sisulu denies Presidency statement that she apologised and retracted her attack on judges
South Africa

JSC must adopt a code of conduct and interview criteria before continuing its work – civil society groups

Jacob Zuma

South Africa

It’s orange-overall time in Free State as NPA hunts down and prosecutes State Capture corruption
DM168

ANC politicians’ kids showered with favours, gifts and contracts thanks to State Capture cash
South Africa

Malema and Mpofu’s insulting JSC overreach opened the doors for Zondo’s appointment as Chief Justice
DM168

Sibanye-Stillwater’s Froneman speaks out – ‘South Africa is a failed state with no leadership’
DM168

Don’t shoot the messenger of Covid-19 new variants, say SA scientists

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