Maverick Citizen

KEEP IT ON

Mask mandate to remain in place — Department of Health

Estelle Ellis
3 mins

INTEGRITY ICON

Professor Ziyaad Dangor: A Covid vaccination champion for Gauteng’s healthcare workers

Biénne Huisman

OPEN LETTER

Dear Jeff Bezos, please don’t let Amazon destroy our ancient and sacred Liesbeek River land

Tauriq Jenkins

Maverick Citizen: Tuesday Editorial

Zondo highlights ‘the constructive role of civil society’ and calls for inclusion in governance

Mark Heywood

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MUSHROOMVILLE

Evicted Tshwane waste pickers say they now have no means of making a living

Michelle Banda
3 mins

OUR BURNING ASSEMBLY

Judge President Hlophe: Referral for mental observation of Parliament arson suspect Zandile Mafe ‘grossly irregular’

Vincent Cruywagen
3 mins

JUSTICE FOR DUMISANI JOXO

SAHRC hearings into attacks on Cape Town’s homeless after police shooting of Rondebosch man

Vincent Cruywagen
4 mins

GroundUp OP-ED

Why the SKA is as vital to space research as the James Webb Telescope

Amish Patel
5 mins

COVID-19

Omicron surge across the globe sparks fears health systems will be overwhelmed

Tamsin Metelerkamp
3 mins

GROUNDUP: BEHIND BARS

Report voices ‘deep concern’ over impact of ‘caged’ solitary confinement in SA prisons

Tania Broughton
3 mins

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

US activates website for free tests; South Africa registers 3,658 new cases

Bloomberg
8 mins

SPOTLIGHT IN-DEPTH

South Africa’s top 10 health issues to keep an eye on in 2022

Alicestine October and Marcus Low
11 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

South Africa

Zimbabwe tobacco barons’ planned capture of Tongaat Hulett
South Africa

First successful private prosecution for murder in South Africa will be felt ‘for a long way to come’
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South Africa’s fourth wave is waning, but don’t celebrate just yet, say experts
South Africa

Populists propel political attacks on the judiciary, says human rights activist Elinor Sisulu
South Africa

NPA on high alert as business rescue practitioners plot coal exports for Gupta-owned Optimum
South Africa

Eight Johannesburg councillors charged for violence as coalition vows tough action on more disruptions
Maverick Citizen

The Kruger National Park and its complex history of conservation and dispossession

COPS IN THE DOCK

Doctor testifies about trying to resuscitate Mthokozisi Ntumba after Braamfontein student protest

Bheki C. Simelane

FOOD JUSTICE PART ONE

Child targets: South Africa faces an obesity-related health catastrophe linked to poor regulation of food advertising

Adèle Sulcas

INTEGRITY ICON

Sister Carmelita Kok: A one-in-a-million nurse

Biénne Huisman

OPINIONISTA

A mention in the Zondo report should not automatically lay an individual open to being named, shamed or accused

Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya

HOMELESS IN THE BIG CITY

Christmas lunch 2021 with the rough sleepers of Delta Park and surrounds

Angus Begg

UNMOTHERLY CITY

Dumisani Joxo, shot by Cape Town law enforcement officer, remembered as kind-hearted and well-loved at memorial

Suné Payne
2 mins

UP IN SMOKE

Four arrested at the Union Buildings for growing and selling weed

Karabo Mafolo
3 mins

GROUNDUP

Concourt rules undocumented man applying for refugee status can remain in SA

Geoffrey Allsop
6 mins

COVID-19

Fourth wave: There’s light at the end of this tunnel

Victoria O’Regan
4 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

Dubai’s Emirates suspends flights to several U.S. destinations on 5G concerns
Newsdeck

Giuliani, other pro-Trump lawyers hit with subpoenas over Jan. 6 attack
Newsdeck

Boris Johnson Denies Ex-Aide’s Claim He Was Told About Lockdown Party
Newsdeck

Major U.S. airlines warn 5G could ground some planes, wreak havoc

OP-ED

Desmond Tutu taught us that to fight for justice, equality and human rights is godly

Jo-Mangaliso Mdhlela

GROUNDUP

Beachgoers continue to swim despite warnings of severe contamination across Durban shores

Nokulunga Majola for GroundUp

GroundUp Occupational injury

High court overturns tribunal ruling, orders compensation for miner diagnosed with noise-induced hearing loss

Tania Broughton

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

Biden doubles at-home US tests; South Africa registers 5,920 new cases

Bloomberg

GROUNDUP

High court puts brakes on licence demerit system

Tania Broughton

Maverick Citizen

Fat Cats Got Fatter

2Lani & Afritoons

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PROCUREMENT PROFLIGACY

No consequence: The accumulated irregular expenditure reaches R488-billion

Mark Heywood
5 mins

Maverick Citizen

State Capture’s Hidden Hands

Dr Jack & Curtis
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LIFE ESIDIMENI INQUEST

Marathon Project: Patient numbers exceeded NGO admission capacity, former health official testifies

Zukiswa Pikoli
2 mins

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

US faces ‘tough’ weeks ahead; South Africa registers 4,597 new cases

Bloomberg
5 mins

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

First successful private prosecution for murder in South Africa will be felt ‘for a long way to come’

Marianne Thamm
3 mins

OUR BURNING ASSEMBLY

Mafe’s our man, say Hawks — but Parliament fire investigation won’t stop with single suspect

Vincent Cruywagen
5 mins

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

China halts Winter Olympics ticket sales; South Africa registers 1,691 new cases

Bloomberg
5 mins

PANDEMIC OP-ED

SA Covid situation in 2022 is unpredictable — poor information clouds our understanding

Wieland Gevers
7 mins

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

RET knives out for Ramaphosa: Zuma faction mobilises to blame party president for poor ANC showing
2021 Local Elections

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

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

eThekwini Metro (Part One): Broken pumps, faulty valves and hundreds of leaks a day — Durban’s ramshackle water supply
2021 Local Elections

IEC’s lists of candidates: South Africa, take your pick
2021 Local Elections

King of the coloured people, Gayton McKenzie, takes multiple coalition calls

BUSINESS MAVERICK

South Africa

NPA on high alert as business rescue practitioners plot coal exports for Gupta-owned Optimum
South Africa

Gupta Inc loses high court bid to block Optimum business rescue practitioners
Africa

Zimbabwe’s Rudland family effectively wins control over Tongaat Hulett
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The private sector’s big ethics problem unravels after State Capture report
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How Brian Molefe blew R150m of Transnet money on the Guptas’ newspaper

MAVERICK CITIZEN

COVID-19

US faces ‘tough’ weeks ahead; South Africa registers 4,597 new cases
COVID-19

Prof Salim Abdool Karim: SA was ‘not caught with our pants down’, while hospital numbers continue to show unvaccinated at higher risk
COVID-19

Vaccines: Only mandate the ‘mandatable’…or we will shoot ourselves in the foot
COVID-19

Covid-19 in South Africa: It’s time to ditch quarantining and contact tracing
COVID-19

The paradox of infection and vaccination statistics that causes confusion

OUR BURNING PLANET

Maverick Citizen

The Kruger National Park and its complex history of conservation and dispossession
South Africa

Seismic surveys: Shell’s gone — but another devil has arrived
South Africa

Family survives after bull elephant batters and flips car at Lake St Lucia
South Africa

Parts of Eastern Cape emerge from drought, but Gqeberha dam levels are still below 19%
South Africa

A court challenge that could be of enormous benefit to wildlife conservation

MAVERICK LIFE

South Africa

Lindiwe Sisulu is the spiritual leader South Africa needs
Maverick Life

Why some people find it harder to be happy
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Semigration: Is it time to leave the city?
Maverick Life

Four reasons why physically punishing school children doesn’t work
Maverick Life

Next weekend we’re watching: ‘Crime’, Irvine Welsh’s new murder series

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

RET knives out for Ramaphosa: Zuma faction mobilises to blame party president for poor ANC showing
2021 Local Elections

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

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

eThekwini Metro (Part One): Broken pumps, faulty valves and hundreds of leaks a day — Durban’s ramshackle water supply
2021 Local Elections

IEC’s lists of candidates: South Africa, take your pick
2021 Local Elections

King of the coloured people, Gayton McKenzie, takes multiple coalition calls

OPINIONISTA

IMF controversy reveals slew of biased policies and a Harvard economist with an axe to grind

Patrick Bond
16 mins

TIPPED OFF

Putting your neck on the line shouldn’t jeopardise your living or life, say whistleblowers

Zukiswa Pikoli
3 mins

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

New York’s Broadway theatres keep vaccine mandates; South Africa registers 2,409 new cases

Bloomberg
7 mins

OPINIONISTA

Turning one’s back on societal responsibility during Covid-19 perpetuates cruelty against one and all

Elise Burns-Hoffman
6 mins

ROYAL RUMPUS

Zulu king, queen and princesses to wage court battle over Goodwill Zwelithini’s will

Des Erasmus
5 mins

VACCINE PATENTS OP-ED

None are safe until everyone is: Why poor economics kills

Kamal Ramburuth-Hurt, Kristin Dilani Nadaraja and Joao Braga
7 mins

GROUNDUP

The long wait for education: Joburg parents queue in desperate effort to place their children in schools

Masego Mafata
2 mins

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SCORPIO

South Africa

NPA on high alert as business rescue practitioners plot coal exports for Gupta-owned Optimum
South Africa

Gupta Inc strikes again with high court victory in ongoing Optimum battle
South Africa

High court battle kicks off to claw back Insure Group Managers’ R1.2bn nest egg
SCORPIO

Ronica Ragavan: ‘A devotee, glorified secretary and Madam Fix-It’
Business Maverick

Zweli Mkhize’s ‘family friend’ and ex-private secretary pocket Covid-19 cash via R82m Department of Health contracts

AMABHUNGANE

Business Maverick

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

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

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

Revealed: Third of British cabinet, including Boris Johnson, has been funded by Israel or pro-Israel lobby groups
Declassified UK

UK information operations in the time of coronavirus

SPORTS

DM168

Could Quinton de Kock’s decision to quit Test cricket start a perilous trend for the sport in South Africa?
South Africa

Proteas aim to carry Test momentum into ODI series without Rabada
Africa

On-form Vincent Aboubakar could topple long-standing Afcon scoring record
Africa

Afcon Group E wide open as Algeria and Ivory Coast drop precious points
DM168

Djokovic’s Covid controversy in Australia reveals that his quest for glory will come almost at any cost

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

The Springbok Migrations: Thundering hooves of death, meat like a fine pȃté
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Hasselback butternut with honeyed harissa and a cashew crumb
TGIFood

Eight years after its last season, MasterChef SA finally returns
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Springbok loin with a Szechuan marinade
TGIFood

Throwback Thursday: Béarnaise

MOTORING

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
Business Maverick

Land Rover Defender 90: Three-door, off-road, on-road maestro
Business Maverick

The road ahead: Motoring trends in 2022
South Africa

The updated Q5 flies the Audi flag high, despite a global drought in computer chips

TOP READS THIS WEEK

DM168

How President Ramaphosa and ANC leaders misled SA about the party’s cadre deployment committee
South Africa

Lindiwe Sisulu is the spiritual leader South Africa needs
South Africa

NPA on high alert as business rescue practitioners plot coal exports for Gupta-owned Optimum
DM168

Could Quinton de Kock’s decision to quit Test cricket start a perilous trend for the sport in South Africa?
South Africa

How fast will the ANC fall, part three: The party’s cars tell a turbo-charged story

AFRICA

Africa

False sympathy will not help Namibia’s people or our elephants – it is anti-conservation
DM168

Why hosting the Africa Cup of Nations is so important for a divided Cameroon
Africa

Richard Leakey — a giant among students of human origins
Africa

Kenya’s port expansions project could open door to nation for organised crime and terrorism
Africa

Afcon Group E wide open as Algeria and Ivory Coast drop precious points

Coronavirus

DM168

Djokovic’s Covid controversy in Australia reveals that his quest for glory will come almost at any cost
COVID-19

US faces ‘tough’ weeks ahead; South Africa registers 4,597 new cases
DM168

South Africa’s fourth wave is waning, but don’t celebrate just yet, say experts
COVID-19

Israel gives fourth doses as EU warns against frequent boosters; South Africa records 5,668 new cases
COVID-19

More nations cite endemic phase; South Africa registers 6,762 new cases

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 9 January 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – TGIF, 8 May 2020
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 4 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 11 September 2021

WEBINARS

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

Johnny Clegg’s life is the story of a true scatterling of Africa
2021 Local Elections

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

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

LOOK & LISTEN

World

The Matrix: Resurrections, a product of late-stage capitalist postmodern hyperreality
Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 01 of 2022
Maverick Life

This weekend we’re watching: An obstinately joyous adaptation of Dickens
Maverick Life

The lyrical and visionary world of Virgil Abloh (1980 – 2021)
Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 49 of 2021

In case you missed it

South Africa

Lindiwe Sisulu’s extraordinary attack on South Africa’s Constitution
DM168

How President Ramaphosa and ANC leaders misled SA about the party’s cadre deployment committee
South Africa

Lindiwe Sisulu is the spiritual leader South Africa needs
COVID-19

Twitter bans Marjorie Taylor Greene for misinformation; South Africa registers 4,379 new cases
South Africa

So long Arch, thanks for the love

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

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

Grieve-ous act? Lindiwe Sisulu’s latest tirade against critic ‘plagiarised’ speech by former UK attorney general
South Africa

The rise and (slow) fall of John Hlophe, the judge who almost took the judiciary down with him
South Africa

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

Jacob Zuma

South Africa

How fast will the ANC fall, part three: The party’s cars tell a turbo-charged story
South Africa

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

The ambitious and ethically flexible Lindiwe Sisulu should resign from Cabinet
Business Maverick

Bain withdraws membership from prominent business lobby group amid renewed State Capture furore
Business Maverick

The Italian Rapscallion: Former Bain boss Vittorio Massone, who helped capture SA Revenue Service, lands plum job in Milan

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