Private sector can procure vaccines from government, Mkhize tells National Council of Provinces

MATTERS OF OBSESSION

State of the arts: How the pandemic affected SA’s art and culture scene

Sarah Hoek

8 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

There is no better time than now to rethink the school curriculum

Khaya Tyatya • 23 FEB

The Vatican actually employs a Devil's Advocate to argue against the canonisation of new saints. Christopher Hitchens was the Devil's Advocate for Mother Teresa.

GROUNDUP

Judgment reserved in Drakenstein emergency housing case

Liezl Human for GroundUp • 23 FEB

2 mins

Maverick Citizen

‘Horrendous’ murder of one-year-old Orderick Lucas a ‘failure’ of the child protection system

Vincent Cruywagen

Daniel McLaren, Julia Chaskalson and Demichelle Petherbridge

MAVERICK CITIZEN #BUDGET2021 RESPONSES

A step backwards for learners’ rights to basic education

Maverick Citizen: Food

Feeding scheme offers a lifeline for thousands of Gauteng’s destitute

Michelle Banda

MAVERICK CITIZEN

eThekwini Municipality: It will take at least two years to rebuild Durban’s economy in the wake of Covid-19

Zukiswa Pikoli

CORONAVIRUS

Global Virus Update: US hunts for variants; SA registers 988 new cases

Bloomberg

Priyal Singh for ISS TODAY

9 mins

ISS TODAY

South Africa’s UN Security Council term has ended – where to from here?

UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE

Eastern Cape: Panic and protests after Makhanda’s waterworks fail

MAVERICK CITIZEN INTERVIEW

Karen Hofman, the professor leading the fight for healthy eating choices

Georgina Crouth • 25 FEB

Popsicles were originally going to be called "Eppsicles" after their inventor Frank Epperson.

SPOTLIGHT: OP-ED

Mboweni didn’t deliver on a 20% health promotion levy. Here’s why that is anti-poor

Lawrence Mbalati for Healthy Living Alliance • 25 FEB

UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE

Dr Beyers Naudé municipality extends time for public comment on fire sale of public property

Lizette Berry, Lori Lake and Camilla Thorogood

OP-ED

No food, no learning: It’s time to stop stunting the potential of our youngest children

Sean Tait and Mary Rayner

OP-ED

Brutality against grant recipients highlights urgent need for reform in public order policing

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Civil society organisations condemn Mboweni’s ‘sugar-coated’ austerity Budget 2021

Mark Heywood

GROUNDUP

Labour Court orders Prasa to reinstate fired executive

James Stent for GroundUp

GROUNDUP

Appointment process of new Lottery board chair restarts

Raymond Joseph

2 mins

ANALYSIS

The metrics of matric: How the Class of 2020 actually fared, province by province

Nicky Roberts

10 mins

GROUNDUP

Constitutional Court outlaws bigotry from beyond the grave

Tania Broughton • 23 FEB

The Vietnam War in Vietnam is known as the American War.

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Friday Activist: Queen KR Kamango

Ufrieda Ho • 25 FEB

CORONAVIRUS

Global Virus Update: J&J vaccine given key nod; South Africa finds 4,000 Covid reinfections

Bloomberg

Maverick Citizen

Experts weigh in on why ‘sugar tax’ needs to be increased

Georgina Crouth

DM168 Inspiration

The brewer feeding the city

Georgina Crouth

GROUNDUP

Covid-19: Don’t put other people’s lives at risk, urges hospital cleaner

Tariro Washinyira

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Nicolette Kinnear tells Parliament her slain husband was warned he would be targeted by Serbian hitmen

Vincent Cruywagen

MAVERICK CITIZEN #BUDGET2021 RESPONSES

A deafening silence on gender-based violence and femicide

Sam Waterhouse

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Glitch in the system: How the digitisation of South Africa’s social grant payments morphed into exploitation

Christi Nortier

GROUNDUP

Covid-19 driving children as young as four onto the streets to earn

Kimberly Mutandiro for GroundUp • 24 FEB

Teen Spirit was an actual deodorant worn by one of Kurt Cobain's former girlfriends.

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Opposition parties voice concern over ‘secrecy’ of government’s Covid vaccine roll-out plan

Christi Nortier • 23 FEB

MAVERICK CITIZEN SPOTLIGHT

For Men Only: New Cape Metro Men’s Health Centre empowers boys and men with one-stop shop for wellness

Siyabonga Kamnqa

MAVERICK CITIZEN WEST AFRICA

Commonwealth Foundation: Women disproportionately affected during emergency situations like Covid-19

Zukiswa Pikoli

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Nelson Mandela University rolls out booking system for metro to deal with Covid-19 vaccines

UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE

Excuses, excuses as Makhanda goes a week without water

Maverick Citizen op-ed

Nothing said at Sona and nothing expected in the Budget – yet nuclear plans keep coming

Francesca de Gasparis

UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE

Eastern Cape: Makana Local Municipality orders new pumps as water crisis drags on

2 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

The environmental hypocrisy of minister Creecy and the ANC

Alex Lenferna

CORONAVIRUS

Global Virus Update: NYC school spread low; Paris faces new curbs; SA reports 1,676 new cases and 144 deaths

Bloomberg • 25 FEB

8 mins

Lawn gnomes used to be real people. The original gnome ornaments were known as Ornamental Hermits.

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

Pandemic offers a reality check on ‘work-life balance’ for working mothers

Sibusiso Mkwananzi, Yaliwe Clarke and Tendai Matika • 25 FEB

OP-ED

Ground Zero: Deep-seated colonial-era prejudice fuelled the pandemic in rural Eastern Cape

Leslie Bank

12 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN

David Makhura confident Gauteng will bounce back from the impact of Covid-19 storm

Zukiswa Pikoli

8 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN EASTERN CAPE

At least 800 Port Elizabeth pupils left hungry after theft of school food supplies

Nonzuzo Mbokazi and Elena Moore

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

Impossible choices for low-income essential workers with young children

7 mins

PHOTO ESSAY

‘I’m proud and happy that the vaccine is finally here’

Shiraaz Mohamed

Maverick Citizen | Maverick Life

Reflections: Reading in the present tense

Imraan Coovadia

Corné van Walbeek and Samantha Filby

OP-ED

Close, but no cigar: Excise tax on cigarettes should have been increased by 50%

COVID-19

Our Lady of the Lamp

Mgobhozi and Africartoons • 23 FEB

< 1 min

Human birth control pills are as effective for gorillas. Why anyone would give that a test is an absolute mystery.

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

Uganda under Museveni: Trial of civilians in military courts violates human rights

Mohammed Ndifuna • 23 FEB