AGE OF CHAOS ANALYSIS John Hlophe’s failed mission — disgraced as a judge, thrown under the bus as a politician 4 min 8 By Marianne Thamm
INTERVIEW ‘Once an activist, always an activist’ — MP Dereleen James continues to fight against drugs and gangs 5 min 0 By Suné Payne
EDITORIAL What will it take? Three months of silence since Dior bag journalist bribe 4 min 13 By Jillian Green
MADLANGA COMMISSION Shadrack Sibiya caught in the middle of glory and scandal 8 min 0 By Vincent Cruywagen
ANALYSIS GNU lease of life? Ramaphosa might just have finally taken charge of SA’s governing coalition 5 min 4 By Stephen Grootes
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE Nelson Mandela Bay Deputy Mayor Gary van Niekerk gives readers (his version of) The Truth 5 min 1 By Riaan Marais
POLITICAL MALAISE OP-ED The ANC is dying, and the DA needs to ‘jettison liberalism’ to survive, says Moeletsi Mbeki 5 min 10 By Gabriel Makin
NOVEMBER BY-ELECTIONS ANC sees off spirited DA challenge in Mpumalanga, romps home in Limpopo to retain wards 5 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
STRIVING FOR ACCORD GNU parties will meet to smooth out foreign policy differences, says Steenhuisen 7 min 5 By Peter Fabricius
IN PICTURES Zohran Mamdani the newly elected mayor of New York City 3 min 0 By Daily Maverick Photo Team
US POLITICS Former SA schoolboy Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City’s first millennial mayor in ‘historic’ elections 6 min 20 By Victoria O’Regan
UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE Eastern Cape official in deeper hot water after defying suspension order 2 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY Nelson Mandela Bay Deputy Mayor Gary van Niekerk will ‘reveal the truth’ during fraud trial 4 min 1 By Riaan Marais
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED Trump’s outburst about a ‘Christian genocide’ in Nigeria is as dangerous as it is absurd 4 min 8 By Phillip van Niekerk
VIDEO Watch – Lucky no more: R4.5bn State Capture trail leads back to ex-Prasa boss 1 min 3 By Pieter-Louis Myburgh
FINDING COMMON GROUND GNU clearing house finally adopts terms of reference, including ‘agree to disagree’ clause 6 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan and Suné Payne
ANALYSIS No load shedding, running trains... Who knew South Africa could fix things 5 min 33 By Stephen Grootes
DEMOCRACY DIVERTED Crackdown on popular dissent in Tanzania as sham election goes ahead 4 min 0 By Diana Neille
‘GLOBAL COMPLICITY’ UN Special Rapporteur says Israel’s Gaza genocide fuelled by Western support 7 min 6 By Victoria O’Regan