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OPEN LETTER

A wake-up call for Health Department heads: Children are dying because of horrendous state of our public hospitals

Tim De Maayer
5 mins

BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM

Here’s what happens to expired Covid vaccines

Zanolwazi Kunene

POLITICALLY AWEH (VIDEO)

SA government’s Covid-19 management in the crosshairs

Politically Aweh

MAVERICK CITIZEN TUESDAY EDITORIAL

All we are saying is ‘Give Peace a Chance’

Mark Heywood

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GROUNDUP

Persons living with mental illness face major challenges accessing disability grant

Barbara October
6 mins

24: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE

The Crisis: Water Armageddon loading as Day Zero looms for Nelson Mandela Bay

Estelle Ellis
6 mins

GROUNDUP

Bylaws vs survival — Lansdowne informal settlement sparks dispute among residents 

Tariro Washinyira
4 mins

COVID PROBE CALL OP-ED

A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Neil Harrison and Jeffrey Sachs
11 mins

SPOTLIGHT

Dire straits at E Cape’s All Saints Hospital as taps remain dry despite R57m allocation

Siyabonga Kamnqa for Spotlight
4 mins

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OP-ED

My visit to Ukraine – Africans must not celebrate the bombing by Russia

Muleya Mwananyanda
5 mins

OPINIONISTA

Government’s ‘consultation’ on communal land tenure just a tick-box exercise

Katlego Ramantsima
7 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

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A wake-up call for Health Department heads: Children are dying because of horrendous state of our public hospitals
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South Africa’s haphazard plan in the hunt for the Gupta fugitives exposed
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Opposition parties planning to free embattled eThekwini from ANC’s clutches
South Africa

Zweli Mkhize’s road to ANC top job is littered with potholes
South Africa

Umdloti flats collapse — ‘At first it sounded like thunder, but then…’
South Africa

Gwede Mantashe is the disciplinarian South Africa needs
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Even tougher times ahead for SA’s middle class thanks to perfect storm of rising costs

GROUNDUP HISTORY NEGLECTED

Kliptown residents fork out to clean up as City of Joburg turns back on Walter Sisulu Square

Chris Gilili for GroundUp

SPOTLIGHT

Quick-and-easy oral swabs could revolutionise TB testing

Tiyese Jeranji for Spotlight

MUKURUKURU MEDIA

Limpopo villagers demand Anglo reopen Sekhukhune mine or lose licence

Lucas Ledwaba

LAND REDISTRIBUTION

‘I cried until I couldn’t anymore’ – why the desecration of ancestral graves by mines is an act of spiritual dispossession

Zukiswa Pikoli

GROUNDUP ANALYSIS

Hands off our Grants — Black Sash’s long battle for justice against Sassa and Cash Paymaster Services

Lynette Maart, Angie Richardson and Rachel Bukasa

BUDGET VOTE

Environment Minister Creecy defends weather warnings issued during KZN floods

Julia Evans

24: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE

The People: Battle to save water last straw for Nelson Mandela Bay’s residents

Estelle Ellis
4 mins

24: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE

The Politics: Bickering continues in Nelson Mandela Bay as taps are set to run dry

Estelle Ellis
6 mins

DISASTER AFTERMATH

Transnet scrambles to repair KZN flood damage as jobseekers invade construction sites

Chris Makhaye and Nce Mkhize
4 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

Ukraine rejects concessions as Russians attack in east and south
Newsdeck

Man shot dead on New York City subway in latest random attack
Newsdeck

Rich nations offer debt guarantees on South African climate deal
Newsdeck

Canada confirms first two monkeypox cases

SADC WATCH

Public finance spending must be effective, says Zambian finance minister as SADC’s model law waits in wings

Moses Magadza and Clare Musonda

SIDELINE LIABILITY OP-ED

Conflict of interest — running a side hustle can get you fired

Kerrie-Lee Olivier

GROUNDUP OP-ED

Unclean air remains a genuine threat to health amid SA’s fifth Covid wave

Gareth Kantor and Jennifer Stearns

BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM

What the latest Covid stats can tell us – and what they can’t

Mia Malan and Joan van Dyk

OUTRAGE SPREADS

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande condemns racist urination incident at Stellenbosch University

Victoria O’Regan

CHILD HUNGER OP-ED

Court may end ducking and diving by Lindiwe Zulu on ECD subsidies

Elisabeth van Wyk

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INAUGURATION

Chancellor Edwin Cameron calls for a Stellenbosch University ‘free of hatred and degradation’

Tamsin Metelerkamp
4 mins

PARAMEDICS UNDER ATTACK

On call with the unsung ambulance heroes who face violence and robbery while trying to save lives

Shiraaz Mohamed
5 mins

ANIMAL ABUSE

Soweto family finally secures conviction of man who raped their beloved dog

Ufrieda Ho
5 mins

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The Mourning After

Wilson Mgobhozi Africartoons
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SPOTLIGHT

Lubricant helps prevent HIV infection, but access at SA clinics limited

Biénne Huisman
4 mins

EASTERN CAPE

The intersection of gender and climate justice struggles in Xolobeni

Zukiswa Pikoli
3 mins

OPINIONISTA

Why I must be able to write about whatever I wish – with few exceptions

Ismail Lagardien
6 mins

South African Person of the Year

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Winner: Imtiaz Sooliman of Gift of the Givers; Runners-up: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo & The Vaccinators
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Winner: Dr Emmanuel Taban; Runners-up: Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema & Dr John Nkengasong
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Winner: Siya Kolisi; Runners-up: Temba Bavuma & Tatjana Schoenmaker
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Winner: Spaza shop owners; Runners-up: Wendy Alberts & Busi Mavuso
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Winner: The two doctors who made a Covid breakthrough; Runners-up: Elon Musk & Greta Thunberg

BUSINESS MAVERICK

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Even tougher times ahead for SA’s middle class thanks to perfect storm of rising costs
Business Maverick

Government rejects 10% pay hike demand by public sector trade unions 
South Africa

The tricky adventures of Richemont, Johann Rupert and nominative determinism
South Africa

Inside Pieter Boone’s plan to return Pick n Pay to its former glory
South Africa

South African Post Office’s financial crisis worsens – and it’s been declared insolvent (again)

MAVERICK CITIZEN

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Scientists identify high chance of reinfection with Omicron subvariants for unvaccinated
COVID-19

CCMA upholds another dismissal over refusal to vaccinate
COVID-19

Epidemics in South Africa: Key lessons on mass vaccination drives learnt from history
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Expert sounds alarm on fifth wave after Covid-19 curve turns upwards in SA
COVID-19

Two years into the Covid disaster, where do we stand?

OUR BURNING PLANET

South Africa

While South Africans endure load shedding, government launches 147MW Roggeveld wind farm
South Africa

Eastern Cape municipalities pump raw sewage into waterways
South Africa

Nine Eskom workers suspended for hydrogen explosion at Medupi power station
South Africa

Illegal miners started Mpumalanga coal mine fire weeks ago – it’s still burning today
South Africa

The Crisis: Water Armageddon loading as Day Zero looms for Nelson Mandela Bay

MAVERICK LIFE

South Africa

South African makes history as he jumps off Mount Everest and glides into the wild blue yonder
South Africa

Gwede Mantashe is the disciplinarian South Africa needs
Maverick Life

Choices you can make now for better health in old age
Maverick Life

The Dream Deferred (updated) – Thabo Mbeki, post-presidency
Maverick Life

Here’s how much sleep you really need for optimal cognition and wellbeing – new research

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

South Africa’s construction mafia sets its sights on local government extortion
2021 Local Elections

Joburg’s new mayor is in tune with the city – and you can take that as gospel
2021 Local Elections

Vereeniging brought to its knees by consistent blackouts, sanitation collapse and pollution
2021 Local Elections

IEC’s lists of candidates: South Africa, take your pick
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

DA’s post-election spin is Trumpian in its ‘alternative facts’
2021 Local Elections

Southern KZN-ECape: ANC happy with comfortable wins — some residents less so

CORONAVIRUS

NICD confirms 5,096 new Covid infections in SA on Tuesday

Estelle Ellis
2 mins

GROUNDUP

Severance pay denied to employee who refused Covid vaccination

Tania Broughton
3 mins

GROUNDUP

Hell Affairs: Disabled SA students risk becoming stateless as Home Affairs repeatedly refuses ID applications

Liezl Human for GroundUp
4 mins

COVID-19

Black Sash report reveals extent of issues experienced by Social Relief of Distress grant recipients

Suné Payne
2 mins

HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS

Music and the food of love — a baker and musician harnesses talents to support Ukraine

Tamsin Metelerkamp
5 mins

ECD FUNDING CRISIS

First early childhood development census reveals underfunded and underqualified sector

Tamsin Metelerkamp
5 mins

Maverick Citizen

Post mortem of a Public Service

2Lani & Afritoons
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SCORPIO

South Africa

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

Shayne’s World: How R1.8bn in UIF cash vanished in Coast2Coast debt hole
South Africa

Digital Vibes scandal: The story behind the story
South Africa

UIF’s R1.8bn loss: Here’s how it happened – in a nutshell
SCORPIO

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

AMABHUNGANE

South Africa

Fuel thieves siphon off millions from Mpumalanga Eskom power station
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
South Africa

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

GLOBAL INVESTIGATIONS

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

REVEALED: The UK military’s overseas base network involves 145 sites in 42 countries
Declassified UK

Torture ‘for your amusement’: How Thatcher’s government misled MPs and public about its dealings with the Pinochet regime
Africa

Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya

SPORTS

South Africa

Fiji fly high in France while Blitzboks reach new lows
Sport

As CSA extends olive branch to Boucher it must consider a SJN audit
South Africa

South African makes history as he jumps off Mount Everest and glides into the wild blue yonder
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Eben Etzebeth’s long quest for respect
World

Man City fight back against Villa to be crowned Premier League champs

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

Charcuterie 101: When a country cooking school came to town
TGIFood

Kingdom of fine herbs
TGIFood

Una Más brings Mezcal craft to the Sea Point strip
TGIFood

A hundred bucks for cooking oil? How sky-high prices are frying your budget
TGIFood

Mopani worms stake a claim on the global stage

MOTORING

South Africa

The Honda Ballade is back
South Africa

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

Hyundai SA’s all-new high-performance Kona N is guaranteed to make you grin
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The Bentley Continental GT is unique, and for that you’re going to pay dearly
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The new Porsche 911 GT3 is a simply sensational sports car

TOP READS THIS WEEK

South Africa

Tshwane’s stadium that never was: R140m to build, R84m to demolish
South Africa

SCA Judge President Maya drags her heels on Zuma case, raising eyebrows
South Africa

Exclusive: Gupta legal team exits BDK Attorneys
South Africa

Nine Eskom workers suspended for hydrogen explosion at Medupi power station
South Africa

‘A catastrophe’ – Minister Bheki Cele describes shocking work conditions for SA police

AFRICA

Africa

International elephant corridor put at risk by killing of Botswana’s largest tuskers
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This is the shiny new bridge that killed the fabled journey to Catembe and the Ponte mercado
Africa

Ugandan troops in Cabo Delgado could ignite powder keg of domestic conflict
COVID-19

Covid-19 corruption deepens wounds of pandemic across Africa 
Ukraine Crisis

Lessons and consequences for Africa from Putin’s moves and missteps in Ukraine

Coronavirus

COVID-19

A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
COVID-19

NICD confirms 5,096 new Covid infections in SA on Tuesday
COVID-19

What the latest Covid stats can tell us – and what they can’t
COVID-19

Severance pay denied to employee who refused Covid vaccination
COVID-19

SA government’s Covid-19 management in the crosshairs

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 9 January 2021
Crosswords

Jason and John’s test crossword
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 4 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – TGIF, 8 May 2020

WEBINARS

Webinars

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

Fast-food advertising targeting children puts their health and futures at risk, say experts
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
Webinars

Climate crisis will worsen brutality against African migrants as their fate is outsourced to a failed state, investigator warns

LOOK & LISTEN

Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 07 of 2022
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The lyrical and visionary world of Virgil Abloh (1980 – 2021)
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Our World in Pictures: Week 06 of 2022
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This month on your screen: True-crime thrillers, science fiction adventures and photorealistic dinosaurs
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Sex, drugs and rotten trolls: Celebrity gossipers send digital standards down the tubes

In case you missed it

South Africa

Tshwane’s stadium that never was: R140m to build, R84m to demolish
South Africa

SCA Judge President Maya drags her heels on Zuma case, raising eyebrows
South Africa

Exclusive: Gupta legal team exits BDK Attorneys
South Africa

Nine Eskom workers suspended for hydrogen explosion at Medupi power station
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Queue, the beloved country – Welcome to Aaron Motsoaledi’s dysfunctional Department of Home Affairs

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

‘Fearless and independent’ SA courts hailed for holding the line against Zuma onslaught
South Africa

Judge Hlophe not ‘untouchable’, should not be given ‘free pass’ – full Bench of Gauteng High Court
South Africa

JSC recommends Ronald Hendricks, Denzil Potgieter and Vuyokazi Noncembu for high court positions
South Africa

‘Imperial Presidency the weak link in the Constitution’ — retired Justice Dikgang Moseneke
South Africa

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

Jacob Zuma

South Africa

SCA Judge President Maya drags her heels on Zuma case, raising eyebrows
South Africa

Judge ‘surprised’, State ‘dismayed’, but absent Zuma scores another delay
South Africa

Jacob Zuma, Yesterday’s Man of power politics
South Africa

How South Africa can embrace its history rather than disgrace it with a R22m massive flag pole
South Africa

Losing your trade marbles on Agoa

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