Maverick Citizen

CORRUPTION CRACKDOWN

Former Gauteng health finance chief Kabelo Lehloenya fails to drag Premier David Makhura into multimillion-rand PPE probe

Estelle Ellis
6 mins

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2021: GROUND LEVEL REPORT

Rocklands: The birthplace of the UDF holds the key to Mitchells Plain

Vincent Cruywagen

2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS: BEYOND THE BALLOT

Prospects of legal challenges to the polls: Insights from the Constitutional Court’s recent judgment

Catherine Kruyer

VACCINE UPTAKE

Slow start to inoculation programme for children between 12 and 17

Michelle Banda

Civil Society Watch 25 -31 October

Fighting illicit financial flows, the case for Trips waivers, disinformation and remembering Ahmed Timol 50 years later

Zukiswa Pikoli
3 mins

CARNIVAL CLOUD

Kaapse Klopse: Cape Town’s new year tradition faces an uncertain future after Covid-19 forced it off the streets for two years

Vincent Cruywagen
3 mins

CORONAVIRUS

Covid-19 vaccines have more benefits than risks for children, says Sahpra

Estelle Ellis and Michelle Banda
4 mins

GIRAFFE JOURNEYS

Of Giraffes and Humming in the AfroAsian Seas: Ari Sitas in conversation with Jade Gibson

Jade Gibson and Ari Sitas
10 mins

GROUNDUP

Apex court rules warrantless searches by police must be scrapped

Tania Broughton
4 mins

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

Moderna children’s dose has strong results; South Africa registers 146 cases

Bloomberg
7 mins

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

Vaccine for US kids by early November; South Africa registers 300 new cases

Bloomberg
5 mins

GROUNDUP: HEALTH SERVICE

Pregnant women resort to sleeping rough outside abortion clinic

Mkhuseli Sizani and Hoseya Jubase
4 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

South Africa

Proteas skipper Bavuma says De Kock has team’s support after refusing to take a knee
2021 Local Elections

eThekwini metro (Part Three): In Durban, ‘People are being killed like flies… and it is the same crew doing the killings’
South Africa

A side order of racism: The Spur incident that spiralled out of control and left a bad taste for life
2021 Local Elections

Targeting of three women for assassination shows how violence is shaping electoral politics
Africa

In the face of pro-democracy uprising, King Mswati III reads from Selassie’s script
Sport

CSA orders Proteas players to take knee, De Kock withdraws from team
Maverick Life

Ten small changes you can make today to prevent weight gain

OPINIONISTA

Fifty years after Ahmed Timol’s murder, secret deals mean no justice for victims of apartheid crimes

Mamphela Ramphele

OPINIONISTA

South African universities heading in the right direction by mandating Covid-19 vaccination

Omphemetse S Sibanda

ZAPIRO

Gen V

Zapiro

OP-ED: DON’T HESITATE, VACCINATE

We have a crisis: South Africa urgently needs leadership to roll out Covid-19 vaccine mandates

Mpiko Ntsekhe and Tracey Naledi

GroundUp: 2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS

Durban homeless people get set to vote — some for the first time

Tania Broughton

GROUNDUP

Vital insect research unit to close due to government funding delay

Liezl Human for GroundUp
3 mins

DEFENDING THE DEFENDERS

Remembering Fikile Ntshangase, a fearless environmental activist

Zukiswa Pikoli
3 mins

Spotlight Op-Ed

Life Esidimeni Inquest: Journal of a grieving sister

Christine Nxumalo
7 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

Brexit: France releases list of sanctions if UK withholds fishing licences
Newsdeck

Commercial farmer evicted from contested land in Zimbabwe
Newsdeck

The world’s oldest monarchy is running out of royals
Newsdeck

A Cambridge college and Paris museum return looted African artefacts

Op-ed: Health and wellbeing

Consent for Covid-19 vaccination in children: Knowing the law

Lucy Jamieson, Ann Skelton and Isabel Magaya

Maverick Citizen: Tuberculosis Op-Ed

Sound the alarm: We are failing to meet targets to beat TB, but Khayelitsha’s care model during Covid-19 shows exactly how it should be done

Dr Anja Reuter

POWERING UP

Businesses step in to protect Nelson Mandela Bay substations after crippling cable theft

Estelle Ellis

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

CDC panel considers more boosters; South Africa registers 520 new cases

Bloomberg

CONCOURT PROTEST

Senior activists demand reparations for victims of apartheid

Michelle Banda

BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM

African lives matter: Covid-19 didn’t miss the continent, as some would conveniently have it — and the numbers back this up

Tian Johnson, Tom Moultrie, Gregg Gonsalves and Fatima Hassan

Op-ed: Africa

Care and compassion over colonialism: Namibia must protect women and girls seeking abortions

Marie-Evelyne Petrus Barry and Bience Gawanas
5 mins

REAL REFORM CAMPAIGN

The silence at local government level on early childhood development must be broken

Mark Heywood
4 mins

SPOTLIGHT OP-ED: TACKLING TB

Quality Tuberculosis care begins with people-centred approaches and education

Wieda Human, Ingrid Schoeman, Petra Heitkamp, Amrita Daftary, Nishant Chavan, Jeremiah Chikovore, Angela Chen, Joel Klinton, Urvashi Singh and Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen
6 mins

GroundUp: DHA DRAMA

South Africans hamstrung by Home Affairs as complaints over queues and service standards escalate

Tariro Washinyira
4 mins

OPINIONISTA

Xenophobia in the Eastern Cape: A hungry man is an angry man

Zukiswa Pikoli
4 mins

GroundUp: CORONAVIRUS

Undocumented immigrants now have the option to get Covid vaccines — in some parts of South Africa

James Stent for GroundUp
2 mins

GroundUp: 2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS

Midvaal likely to remain DA stronghold although municipal sewerage pollution a major concern

Steve Kretzmann for GroundUp
7 mins

HEAVEN SENT

Tears of relief for farmers: Rain falls in drought-stricken Karoo

Suné Payne
2 mins

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

South Africa and the judiciary will be under threat in the post-election season of open lawfare
2021 Local Elections

Anti-vaxxing politics — an ideal wedge issue for the desperate and low
2021 Local Elections

eThekwini metro (Part Two): ‘mafioso’ business forums rebrand and rake in government contracts
2021 Local Elections

‘You can’t be in power forever’: Ace Magashule weighs up ANC prospects
2021 Local Elections

eThekwini metro (Part Three): In Durban, ‘People are being killed like flies… and it is the same crew doing the killings’
2021 Local Elections

DA leader John Steenhuisen points out ‘dysfunctional ANC municipalities’ while making his final pitch
2021 Local Elections

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

BUSINESS MAVERICK

South Africa

A side order of racism: The Spur incident that spiralled out of control and left a bad taste for life
South Africa

Absa, AngloGold Ashanti and the Reserve Bank rocked by disputed sexual harassment claim levelled against Sipho Pityana
Business Maverick

Gwede Mantashe punts nuclear and Karoo shale gas in address to NUM
Business Maverick

Absa appoints Sello Moloko as chair-designate in the wake of Sipho Pityana fallout
South Africa

No need to panic: South Africa’s stores will be well stocked for Black Friday and festive season

MAVERICK CITIZEN

COVID-19

Thousands of lives at risk if South Africa goes ahead with local government elections, says medical specialist
COVID-19

How Covid-19 vaccination can beat South Africa’s fourth wave
COVID-19

Undocumented immigrants now have the option to get Covid vaccines — in some parts of South Africa
COVID-19

Vaccinations to open for 12- to 17-year-olds next week
COVID-19

What South Africa must do to prepare for the third wave double whammy of Covid-19 and flu this winter

OUR BURNING PLANET

Business Maverick

Gwede Mantashe punts nuclear and Karoo shale gas in address to NUM
South Africa

Using Cape Town as a launchpad, Russia boasts of supergiant oil fields in Antarctic wilderness
DM168

WWF programme seeks to reduce Cape wine farms’ strain on floral kingdom biodiversity
South Africa

How rising sea-levels may impact Durban and Cape Town
South Africa

Hundreds of malnourished Cape fur seals wash up dead on South Africa’s shores

MAVERICK LIFE

Maverick Life

Ten small changes you can make today to prevent weight gain
Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 42 of 2021
Business Maverick

A side order of racism: The Spur incident that spiralled out of control and left a bad taste for life
Maverick Life

This weekend we’re watching: A dark Irish comedy about sisterhood
Magazine

Tannie Evita emerges from lockdown

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

South Africa and the judiciary will be under threat in the post-election season of open lawfare
2021 Local Elections

Anti-vaxxing politics — an ideal wedge issue for the desperate and low
2021 Local Elections

eThekwini metro (Part Two): ‘mafioso’ business forums rebrand and rake in government contracts
2021 Local Elections

‘You can’t be in power forever’: Ace Magashule weighs up ANC prospects
2021 Local Elections

eThekwini metro (Part Three): In Durban, ‘People are being killed like flies… and it is the same crew doing the killings’
2021 Local Elections

DA leader John Steenhuisen points out ‘dysfunctional ANC municipalities’ while making his final pitch
2021 Local Elections

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

AWARENESS SESSION

Look out for telltale signs of gender-based violence, parents warned at Atlantis memorial for slain Charné Viljoen

Vincent Cruywagen
3 mins

WEEKLY TRENDS IN SOUTH AFRICA OP-ED

Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: A historic partnership ahead of the municipal elections

William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi
7 mins

SPOTLIGHT OP-ED

WHO numbers underscore urgent need for stronger leadership and ambitious TB recovery plan

Zameer Brey, Marcus Low, Yogan Pillay and Ingrid Schoeman
5 mins

HEALTHCARE DISCRIMINATION

SA health system corruption sparks protest to Union Buildings

Mosima Rafapa
2 mins

TROUBLED KINGDOM

Social media fills the gap in Eswatini, but political issues still unresolved

Carien du Plessis
5 mins

Spotlight: PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING

What public sector mental health services look like in the Free State and where to seek help

Refilwe Mochoari
7 mins

GROUNDUP: repatriation waiting game

Refugee dies clinging to hope of leaving South Africa — UNHCR vows investigation

Tariro Washinyira
5 mins

SAPS’ R1.6bn PPE SPLURGE

Competition Commission and SIU investigate police’s disinfectant supplier Red Roses Africa 

Mark Heywood
6 mins

SCORPIO

South Africa

Digital Vibes scandal: The story behind the story
SCORPIO

Zweli Mkhize’s son collected bags of Digital Vibes cash, says SIU
South Africa

Beyond reasonable doubt: VBS scandal exposed Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu’s corrupt dealings
Business Maverick

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Exposed: DoH’s R150m Digital Vibes scandal – Zweli Mkhize associates charged millions for Covid-19 media briefings
Business Maverick

South African insurance industry rocked by Insure Group ‘premiums misappropriation’ scandal

AMABHUNGANE

Africa

Pandora Papers: Inside Zimbabwean tycoon Billy Rautenbach’s offshore family trust
South Africa

Spooks get another lashing – ConCourt rules aspects of eavesdropping and spying indeed unlawful
South Africa

Prasa pays R3m to Mbalula’s administrator — just before court culls him
South Africa

Update: My big fat Gupta wedding – the movie
Politics

Intelligence committee report shows legislators knew of SSA malfeasance – and ‘bugging judge’ lifts lid on ongoing unsavoury wiretaps

GLOBAL INVESTIGATIONS

Declassified UK

Collaborators in Africa: Did Britain help murder an African leader and UN Secretary-General?
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
Declassified UK

UK information operations in the time of coronavirus
Declassified UK

Britain’s secret political police

SPORTS

South Africa

Proteas skipper Bavuma says De Kock has team’s support after refusing to take a knee
Sport

CSA orders Proteas players to take knee, De Kock withdraws from team
Business Maverick

Grassroots cricket remains stumped by CSA’s Social justice and Nation-Building hearings
Sport

Six CSA directors quit, but the rot remains
South Africa

Temba Bavuma leads Proteas into new era

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

Restaurants rattled as tourism season approaches
TGIFood

The Hotel at the end of a Long Day’s Drive
South Africa

Proteas skipper Bavuma says De Kock has team’s support after refusing to take a knee
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Potato fritters
TGIFood

A dining experience of the very Mediterranean soul

MOTORING

South Africa

Che Figo! The Italian legend lives on — meet the 2021 Alfa Romeo Giulia
Business Maverick

Land Rover: Defender of the faith
Business Maverick

Isuzu KB250 X-Rider 4×4 D/Cab: Thrills without the frills
Business Maverick

Range Rover Sport SVR: I’m sorry, but this is quite a fun ride
Business Maverick

The motor dragon: China’s shift to electric vehicles will rev up a revolution

TOP READS THIS WEEK

Business Maverick

The CumEx Files (Part One): Investec implicated in investigations into the world’s largest tax fraud
DM168

Might and malefactors: ‘Military veterans’ more like a gang of criminals threatening the nation
Maverick Life

Ten small changes you can make today to prevent weight gain
South Africa

Absa, AngloGold Ashanti and the Reserve Bank rocked by disputed sexual harassment claim levelled against Sipho Pityana
South Africa

Alcohol ban ahead of possible Covid-19 fourth wave in December will be crippling, warns Pick n Pay’s Ackerman

AFRICA

Africa

In the face of pro-democracy uprising, King Mswati III reads from Selassie’s script
Africa

Eswatini opposition rejects King Mswati’s offer of a national dialogue
Africa

Corruption and state capture, not sanctions, are the cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown
Africa

Uneasy calm in Eswatini after trust breaks down between Mswati III and his subjects
Africa

Africa’s gas bonanza may be on course to be overtaken by global net-zero drive

Coronavirus

COVID-19

We have a crisis: South Africa urgently needs leadership to roll out Covid-19 vaccine mandates
COVID-19

264,809 deaths later: Covid-19’s terrifying toll on South Africa, almost three times the official figure
COVID-19

‘Personal privilege ends where public peril begins’: Making the case for mandatory vaccination
COVID-19

Consent for Covid-19 vaccination in children: Knowing the law
COVID-19

Bureaucratic pitfalls barring mothers and caregivers from accessing Social Relief of Distress grant

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – TGIF, 8 May 2020
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 9 January 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 11 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 4 September 2021

WEBINARS

2021 Local Elections

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

Johnny Clegg’s life is the story of a true scatterling of Africa
Webinars

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

The Poisoners: an unfinished history of poisoning and ultimately a political story to be continued
Webinars

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

LOOK & LISTEN

Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 42 of 2021
Magazine

Our World in Pictures: Week 41 of 2021
Maverick Life

This weekend we’re watching: A dark Irish comedy about sisterhood
Maverick Life

The fantastic Karroo Theatrical Hotel… oh, the Follies!
Magazine

This weekend we’re watching: A dark Danish comedy about drinking culture

In case you missed it

South Africa

Lieutenant-General Francinah Vuma declares all top positions ‘vacant’, excluding national and provincial commissioners
South Africa

More problems than solutions: Being paid to kill Western Cape baboons is no way to manage wildlife
TGIFood

Missing Marmite: The end of the dearth is in sight
2021 Local Elections

‘You can’t be in power forever’: Ace Magashule weighs up ANC prospects
DM168

Former Mafia-linked banker Vito Palazzolo tells South African government: ‘I’m back, but I’m no threat’

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

State Capture Inquiry dismisses ex-spy boss Arthur Fraser’s attacks on Zondo
South Africa

Casac, Helen Suzman Foundation submit concerns that Mkhwebane and Hlophe ‘not fit and proper’ contenders for top ConCourt post
South Africa

WC Judge President John Hlophe accuses Chief Justice Mogoeng of perjury and conspiracy
South Africa

On a mission from his God – Chief Justice Mogoeng’s message to South Africa: ‘We are bewitched’

Jacob Zuma

South Africa

Ready to rumble: Zuma ups the ante and files criminal charges against prosecutor Billy Downer
South Africa

Court rules against Jacob Zuma’s special plea to have Billy Downer removed from arms deal case
South Africa

The Gambler: Zuma’s casino spotting reignites questions about his medical parole
South Africa

Stalingrad defence: Zuma’s costly and legally untenable attempts to avoid facing criminal charges
Maverick Citizen

‘Phoenix massacre’: What really happened in the deadly collision of brutalised communities

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