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HOSPITAL ON THE EDGE, PART ONE

Eastern Cape Health Department transfers CEO and senior doctor in continuing Zithulele conflict

Maru Attwood, Hoseya Jubase and Estelle Ellis
7 mins

GROUNDUP

Spain investigates corrupt Prasa ‘too-tall trains’ sale, while SA probe yet to leave the station

James Stent for GroundUp

OPINIONISTA

Last week was one of great sorrow; we are exhausted by our country’s brokenness

Judith February

AFRO DISPATCHES

Victoria Falls heritage status under threat from power plant, hotel, golf course plans, Unesco warns

Frank Chikowore

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MOMENT OF TRUTH OP-ED

The legacy of the Marikana massacre, ten years later

Benjamin Fogel
5 mins

SECTION27 OP-ED

North West school rape case confirms victims are being failed by the system

Zeenat Sujee and Motheo Brodie
5 mins

OPPORTUNITIES OP-ED

Social connections can provide a multiplying effect for young people

Janet Jobson, Kristal Duncan-Williams and Clotilde Angelucci
5 mins

SPOTLIGHT

Women in Health: ‘I don’t like seeing anybody treated unfairly,’ says new head of HIV Clinicians Society

Biénne Huisman
7 mins

TRIBUTE

Remembering Gordon Webster, one of our most unlikely and modest freedom fighters

Bryan Rostron
4 mins

COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH RESEARCH

Saving women — the powerful work of the Khayelitsha Cervical Cancer Screening Project

Tamsin Metelerkamp
5 mins

SOUTH AFRICA 2.0

Joburg Activist Exchange energises a new civil society

Maru Attwood
4 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

Business Maverick

Johnson & Johnson drops talcum powder globally as lawsuits mount
South Africa

Angry community shuts Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park gate, sets alight guard hut after repeated wildlife escapes
South Africa

ANC’s collapse as South Africa’s majority party is foretold in new poll
South Africa

Supra Mahumapelo ‘pulls out’ of North West ANC chairperson race and aims for NEC position
South Africa

Stuck in first gear — Cape Town bylaws criminalise houseless persons sleeping in cars
Sport

Springbok coach refuses to concede that selection decisions were behind Ellis Park setback
South Africa

Mogoeng Mogoeng’s rumoured political ambitions would impair SA judiciary’s trustworthiness

NELSON MANDELA BAY

Residents of Rocklands: ‘Protesting is the only way the municipality will hear us’

Luvuyo Mehlwana and Estelle Ellis

STRATEGY

Courage and focus needed to start an organisation like Iranti, says founder Jabu Pereira

Zukiswa Pikoli

HOSPITAL ON THE EDGE EDITORIAL

Acclaimed Zithulele sadly in danger of losing what made it great while patients are the biggest losers

Estelle Ellis

BHEKISISA OP-ED

One pill within three days of condomless sex could stop three sexually transmitted infections

Joan van Dyk for the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism

OPINIONISTA

Medical progress is critical, but so are the ethics surrounding the harvesting and use of human cells

Tshilidzi Marwala

HOSPITAL ON THE EDGE, PART TWO

‘At all costs’ — the human and health impacts of the implosion of Zithulele

Hoseya Jubase and Maru Attwood
7 mins

STATE OF DISASTER

Distress but no social relief – Limpopo’s poor languish in misery after SRD grant cut off

Zukiswa Pikoli
7 mins

HOSPITAL ON THE EDGE, PART THREE

Collateral damage — declining care, victimisation and protests at Zithulele

Maru Attwood and Hoseya Jubase
14 mins

Get thee to a theatre

Home, hope and humour — Capetonians, catch it while you can

Mark Heywood
4 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

Author Salman Rushdie is off a ventilator and his ‘road to recovery has begun’
Newsdeck

Republicans push to see affidavit that justified FBI search of Trump’s home
Newsdeck

Tokyo diners nosh on Demogorgon pasta, Eleven’s waffles at ‘Stranger Things’ cafe
Newsdeck

Putin boasts of Russian weapons prowess, says Moscow is ready to share it with allies

NELSON MANDELA BAY

Farmers determined to find solutions after bearing brunt of protesters’ rage at lack of service delivery

Estelle Ellis

TRAVAILS OF TRANSITION (PART ONE)

R56m destined for Eastern Cape wind farm beneficiaries ‘wasted’ on failed ‘green energy’ projects

Ethan van Diemen

MASSACRE RESTITUTION

All Marikana reparations must be settled by end of August — Solicitor-General

Julia Evans

SOE CONTRACT CORRUPTION

SIU Special Tribunal freezes luxury properties of two top executives linked to Transnet

Ray Mahlaka

OPINIONISTA

If we want to tackle toxic masculinity and GBV, we must start with South Africa’s boys

Martin Sweet

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PREDATORY PERSUASION OP-ED

The transactional phenomenon of ‘sugar daddies’, ‘blessers’ and its dangers

Njabulo Banda
4 mins

THE CONVERSATION

Lessons from Angola on how not to manage and respond to a drought crisis

Ruy Llera Blanes
5 mins

LIFE IN A FACTORY TOWN

Ashton residents face uncertain future as canning plant teeters on the brink of closure

Tamsin Metelerkamp
7 mins

TEACHING OP-ED

Increasing casualisation of education jobs has serious consequences for newly qualified teachers

Rochelle Kapp, Kate Angier, Judy Sacks and Melanie Sadeck
5 mins

OPINIONISTA

Amid the ANC’s jollification, we are left with just the imaginaries of ‘a better life for all’

Ismail Lagardien
5 mins

ISS TODAY ANALYSIS

Massacres and atrocities in SA on increase while smaller-scale instances of violence often ignored  

David Bruce
3 mins

GROUNDUP UNION CLASH

Ruth Ntlokotse vs Irvin Jim – Contentious Numsa court case to be heard next week

James Stent for GroundUp
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GROUNDUP OP-ED

Judges are perceived to be crossing the line when they speak out but this isn’t always the case

Alison Tilley and Vuyani Ndzishe
4 mins

BUSINESS MAVERICK

Business Maverick

Johnson & Johnson drops talcum powder globally as lawsuits mount
South Africa

Nedbank blames delayed legislative process for its R35m SA Reserve Bank fine
Business Maverick

Russia unplugs foes, rewards friends in latest market reboot
South Africa

Retraction of article and apology to Symbion Power LLC
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One decade on, the Marikana mine has seen a turnaround in fortunes and is making a punchy profit

MAVERICK CITIZEN

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Expert sounds alarm on fifth wave after Covid-19 curve turns upwards in SA
COVID-19

South Africa’s electronic booking system for Covid vaccines is now online
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Right to Care vaccination team on a mission to get to far-flung places in the Eastern Cape
COVID-19

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

Covid-19 cases spike in Gauteng, with South Africa’s positivity rate edging closer to 5%

OUR BURNING PLANET

South Africa

Angry community shuts Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park gate, sets alight guard hut after repeated wildlife escapes
South Africa

Global warming putting world’s biggest ice sheet at greater risk than scientists previously thought
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Meet two pioneering South African university Vice-Chancellors blazing the global science trail
South Africa

Cape Town water warning: Time to boil the kettle and get out the bleach
World

Our skies are burning while our modern-day Neros fiddle at the UN Conference of the Parties

MAVERICK LIFE

Maverick Life

A robot breaks the finger of a 7-year-old: a lesson in the need for stronger regulation of artificial intelligence
Maverick Citizen

Home, hope and humour — Capetonians, catch it while you can
Maverick Life

How frequently should couples be having sex? Hint: It’s not the number that counts
Maverick Life

Loeriesfontein — home of the giant steel flowers
World

Pop icon Olivia Newton-John dies age 73 – ‘Her impact was incredible’

EMPLOYMENT CRISIS OP-ED

South Africa must bridge the gap on labour force gender disparity

Sharmi Surianarain
7 mins

OPINIONISTA

Racism, resentment, and the reinvention of right — the ANC’s slide into moral oblivion

Antony Balcomb
5 mins

PROTEST NATION

Saftu and allies plan national shutdown on 24 August to demand a better life for the working class

Mark Heywood
5 mins

BHEKISISA OP-ED

A junior doctor’s battle to keep death at bay for state patients

Anonymous junior doctor
5 mins

OPINIONISTA

This is my South Africa. This is my home. This is a place worth fighting for

Mike Abel
3 mins

SPOTLIGHT

Ticking time bomb: The obstacles stalling the training of nurses in South Africa

Thabo Molelekwa for Spotlight
10 mins

GROUNDUP

Activists launch #PatrickMustFall campaign

Ashraf Hendriks for GroundUp
2 mins

BHEKISISA

Why is the International Aids Conference still held in the Global North?

Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism
8 mins

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SCORPIO

South Africa

Ex Gauteng HoD Margaret-Ann Diedricks arrested over R7-million ‘kickbacks’ from Free State asbestos tender
South Africa

Groundhog Day à la ANC — Prasa Chair Leonard Ramatlakane’s tall train lies
South Africa

Bounty Brands’ ‘dodgy’ dividend: R530m from doomed UIF investment flowed to shareholders’ offshore accounts
South Africa

Gupta lawyers bow out as IDC’s R287m fight against Oakbay rolls into year five
South Africa

Pretoria family racket allegedly fleeced state using Sassa pensioners as front for dodgy police service providers

AMABHUNGANE

South Africa

The awful state of SA’s lawful telecoms interception, Part One
South Africa

High court ruling involving Zuma’s taxes may alter the ways of South Africa’s democracy
South Africa

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

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

Update: My big fat Gupta wedding – the movie

GLOBAL INVESTIGATIONS

Africa

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

How Britain helped Iran’s Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition
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

Britain’s seven covert wars: An Explainer

SPORTS

Sport

Springbok coach refuses to concede that selection decisions were behind Ellis Park setback
Sport

The All Blacks Springboks clash of Ellis Park in pictures
Sport

Maiden major was worth the wait for Ashleigh Buhai, South Africa’s first lady of golf
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Batting in focus as Proteas gun for Test glory against an old foe
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Is Super Rugby’s restructure to blame for the All Blacks’ slump?

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

The experts share their tips for beefy perfection
TGIFood

What’s old and new at the 44 Stanley precinct
TGIFood

The rediscovery of a French food legend in Jozi
TGIFood

Lunch with the Neighbours? I should be so lucky
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Tagliatelle aglio e olio e peperoncino

MOTORING

South Africa

Going for a song – the new Kia Sonet Turbo
Maverick Life

What’s the hype with hybrid cars? A fast-track guide to going electric in SA
South Africa

The Honda Ballade is back
Business Maverick

The Mercedes V-Class is some kind of wonderful, but the hefty price puts it out of reach
Business Maverick

The road ahead: Motoring trends in 2022

TOP READS THIS WEEK

South Africa

Burglars stole $600,000 from Cyril Ramaphosa’s game farm Phala Phala, says report
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‘Cursed’ zama zama of a lawyer — Malesela Teffo should sue whoever gave him a degree
Business Maverick

Johnson & Johnson drops talcum powder globally as lawsuits mount
South Africa

R500,000 damages against KZN military police for ‘humiliating’ 2017 arrest of SANDF officers and civilian
South Africa

Revealed: David Mabuza, Fred Daniel and the missing crime dockets

AFRICA

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Victoria Falls heritage status under threat from power plant, hotel, golf course plans, Unesco warns
Africa

Exporting copper from Zambia — a tale of two roads
Africa

Five days later, tensions rise as Kenyan presidential election results trickle in
Africa

CAF president Patrice Motsepe reveals more details of Africa Super League
Africa

Madagascar president’s spat with South Africa about more than gold smuggling

Coronavirus

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‘It took me three seconds to decide’ — Dr Fareed Abdullah reflects on three decades at the coalface of public health
COVID-19

Health authorities confirm first vaccine-related death in South Africa
COVID-19

Distress but no social relief – Limpopo’s poor languish in misery after SRD grant cut off
COVID-19

Gauteng DA launches yet another ‘desperate’ bid to oust Makhura, but this time ‘we’ve got the numbers’
COVID-19

North Korea declares victory over Covid-19, reveals Kim suffered fever

WEBINARS

Webinars

SA can no longer be held to ransom by ANC factional politics, says new book by country’s top thinkers
Webinars

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

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

LOOK & LISTEN

Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 28 of 2022
Maverick Life

The angry planet – August 2022
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Our World in Pictures: Week 32 of 2022
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Sex, drugs and rotten trolls: Celebrity gossipers send digital standards down the tubes
Maverick Life

The fantastic Karroo Theatrical Hotel… oh, the Follies!

In case you missed it

South Africa

Burglars stole $600,000 from Cyril Ramaphosa’s game farm Phala Phala, says report
South Africa

Mpofu feels ‘ambushed’ as photo confirms that witness was with Mkhwebane at Vrede dairy inspection
South Africa

New ANC KZN leader Siboniso Duma saves Cyril Ramaphosa from embarrassment
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‘Cursed’ zama zama of a lawyer — Malesela Teffo should sue whoever gave him a degree
South Africa

SA shocks the world by massively outperforming economically … and other tall stories

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

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

South Africa’s justice system is showing signs of rot
South Africa

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

Why South Africa still has a chance
South Africa

Former SSA DG Arthur Fraser to break oath on ‘state secrets’, seeks indemnity, State Capture inquiry hears

Jacob Zuma

South Africa

Gupta-linked Black First Land First pestered Mkhwebane to complete the CIEX report — inquiry hears
South Africa

Ace Magashule and Mosebenzi Zwane directly implicated in Vrede Dairy project, says former investigator
South Africa

Mkhwebane lawyer Mpofu latches on to Mogoeng minority ConCourt opinion
South Africa

Siboniso Duma’s rise to power as ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairperson
South Africa

Ramaphosa appears safe and unlikely to be seriously challenged … for now

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