Maverick Interview

Because it was banned in the 1900s the majority of Americans do not know that blackcurrant flavoured anything is in actual fact a normality worldwide.

GROUNDUP

Record number of South Africans died in first week of 2021

James Stent and Nathan Geffen • 14 JAN

2 mins

COVID SURGE

Gauteng’s mortuary capacity, coffin and burial space shortages cause alarm

Bheki C. Simelane

14 JAN

4 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Round two: What South Africa’s provinces are up against in the second wave

Christi Nortier

17 JAN

5 mins

CLIMATE JUSTICE CHARTER

A bleak future: Young people and a dialogue about the climate crisis

Raeesah Noor-Mahomed

17 JAN

7 mins

Maverick Citizen

Civil Society Watch: Vaccine activism takes off under broad new alliance

Mark Heywood

15 JAN

7 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Researchers highlight Africa’s Covid-19 innovations and work to spread them further

Christi Nortier

14 JAN

7 mins

CORONAVIRUS

Global Virus Update: US deaths near 400,000; SA deaths rise above 37,000; UK weighs quarantines

Bloomberg

17 JAN

8 mins

GROUNDUP

When Covid becomes a bad cold: Experts map the future of SARS-CoV-2

James Stent for GroundUp

18 JAN

2 mins

ANALYSIS

As painful as it gets: The great school reopening debate

Stephen Grootes • 17 JAN

6 mins

A lightning bolt is 5 times hotter than the sun's surface.

MAVERICK CITIZEN 168

Price of water skyrockets on supply deterioration in Eastern Cape

Estelle Ellis • 17 JAN

3 mins

SOUTHERN AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP #27

The ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence in Africa: From protocols to practice

Arnold Tsunga and Tatenda Mazarura

17 JAN

7 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN 168

Life’s not a beach during Covid-19

Rebecca Pitt and Victoria O’Regan

17 JAN

8 mins

REFLECTION 168

The next face of Covid-19 could be yours

Jillian Green

17 JAN

4 mins

DM168 Citizen

Eastern Cape municipal failures: ‘We did not struggle for this’

Estelle Ellis

17 JAN

6 mins

SPOTLIGHT

Health in 2021: Spotlight’s top 12 questions

Spotlight Editors

15 JAN

7 mins

CORONAVIRUS WEEKLY DIGEST #15

Lockdown lingers, schools stay shut and provinces battle a towering second wave

Christi Nortier

15 JAN

6 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN:ANALYSIS

Using ivermectin for Covid-19: what to do when caution and crisis clash?

Mark Heywood

15 JAN

6 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN: OP-ED

Potential to save lives: An intensive care doctor argues for ‘compassionate use’ of ivermectin for Covid-19

Nathi Mdladla • 15 JAN

13 mins

An Oxford University study established that highly religious people and atheists are the least afraid of death.

MAVERICK CITIZEN TRIBUTE

Gogo Qho: A visionary farmer and conservationist who refused to be a prisoner of history

Mvuselelo Ngcoya, Narendran Kumarakulasingam and Brittany Kesselman • 14 JAN

6 mins

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono still fighting for bail

Frank Chikowore

14 JAN

3 mins

Maverick Citizen: Coronavirus

Medical oxygen: Afrox recalls industrial cylinders for conversion amid skyrocketing Eastern Cape demand

Estelle Ellis

14 JAN

4 mins

Covid-19

Global Virus Update: J&J vaccine authorisation delay; UK deaths surge

Bloomberg

13 JAN

10 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

AU Commission chair’s stance on Ethiopian civil war sabotages the union’s peace mission

Paulos Tesfagiorgis

13 JAN

5 mins

Maverick Citizen

Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba temporarily replaced as she fights Covid-19

Estelle Ellis

13 JAN

3 mins

ANALYSIS

2021: South Africa’s last chance saloon

Marianne Merten

12 JAN

9 mins

CORONAVIRUS

Global Virus Update: Arizona sets death record; New York state lowers vaccine age

Bloomberg

12 JAN

9 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN

The human spirit: A lesson in determination and courage from a medical student

Bheki C. Simelane • 12 JAN

3 mins

Jimi Hendrix was a private in the 101st Airborne in 1962.

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Covid-19 infodemic: Communicate the facts as if your life depended on it

Peter Benjamin • 12 JAN

7 mins

CAPE TOWN

NPA’s decision not to oppose bail in gangster trial ‘is tactical’

Vincent Cruywagen

12 JAN

6 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Keith Cloete: Western Cape needs ‘to provide Covid relief for healthcare workers and their families’

Suné Payne

12 JAN

2 mins

GROUNDUP

Here’s how to fight anti-vaccine propaganda

GroundUp Editors

12 JAN

3 mins

Maverick Citizen

Gauteng sees exponential rise in infections and deaths – but most new hospital beds still not ready

Mark Heywood

12 JAN

4 mins

Maverick Citizen: Editorial

2021: Time for civil society to rise and reorganise

Mark Heywood

12 JAN

6 mins

Maverick Citizen

Between a Croc and a Hard Place

Dr Jack & Curtis

12 JAN

< 1 min

CORONAVIRUS

President Ramaphosa: Land border posts closed as South Africa remains at Level 3 lockdown

Estelle Ellis

11 JAN

8 mins

CORONAVIRUS

Global Virus Update: WHO team set for Wuhan trip as worldwide cases top 90 million

Bloomberg • 11 JAN

9 mins

Alcatraz had some of the best prison food in the United States.

INDIA'S AGONY

India divided: An imperialist spirit within a nation state

Rajmohan Gandhi • 11 JAN

7 mins

Cape Town Gang Violence

A month after ‘peacemaker’ was killed, the alleged murder weapon is still lying at the crime scene

Vincent Cruywagen

11 JAN

3 mins

CORONAVIRUS

Should the Covid-19 vaccine be mandatory? We asked the experts

Rebecca Davis

11 JAN

5 mins

COVID-19: VISUAL ESSAY

Gauteng doctors on second wave: ‘Our health system is overwhelmed — we are traumatised for life’

Shiraaz Mohamed

11 JAN

5 mins

Maverick Citizen Op-Ed

Medical scheme reserves: A shot in the arm for mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign

Pat Sidley

11 JAN

4 mins

COVID-19

South Africa’s scientists say the 501Y.V2 variant moves more easily and faster, but it’s not more deadly

By Christi Nortier

Maverick Interview

Judgment Date with Judge Dennis Davis, Episode 47: Fatima Hassan

Maverick Citizen: Tuesday Editorial

A hungry planet is an angry planet: Has capitalism failed?

CORONAVIRUS

Global Virus Update: SA reports 9,780 cases; US deaths top 400,000; New York warns on dose supply

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Human Rights Watch highlights xenophobia as a threat to human rights in South Africa

Zukiswa Pikoli • 21 hours ago

OPINIONISTA

South Africa’s new lockdown regulations explicitly ban all ‘political gatherings’

Dale T McKinley • 23 hours ago

ISS TODAY

Dialogue could have averted Covid-19 border chaos

GROUNDUP

Covid-19: Has the alcohol ban helped?

CORONAVIRUS

Emotional healing after Covid-19 trauma — the next step for healthcare workers in the Western Cape

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris represents a moment to be seized, despite US divisions

OPINIONISTA

Spanish flu to Covid-19: If we cannot learn from history, we are condemned to repeat its mistakes

MAVERICK CITIZEN TRIBUTE

Mourning and remembering Andrew Mosane, one of SA’s most colourful HIV, human rights and queer activists

OPINIONISTA

Who will care for the caregivers? Our teachers are being thrown into the Covid lion’s den

Maverick Citizen: Eastern Cape

WhatsApp error leads to oxygen trouble for Eastern Cape Department of Health

Estelle Ellis • 19 JAN

Uncooperative Governance

Community axe falls on crime horror house after Nelson Mandela Bay municipality fails to act

Estelle Ellis • 18 JAN

OP-ED

Africa’s Covid-19 response has been admirable, but the economic costs will linger for years

The Conversation Op-ed

South Africa failed to get its act together on vaccines: here’s how

OP-ED

Remote learning is set to dramatically change the academic landscape

Maverick Citizen

Pressing Issues In Zimbabwe

TRIBUTE

Harold Wolpe: South Africa today is a betrayal of my father’s fight for rights and justice

CORONAVIRUS

Global Virus Update: South Africa registers another 9,010 cases; New York cases continue to drop

CORONAVIRUS

South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine roll-out: What we do know and what we’re still struggling to find out

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

Constitutional Court recognises matric as part of the right to basic education

Catherine Kruyer • 17 JAN

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

Health worker suspensions amplify effects of Zim’s Covid-19 second wave

Fazila Mahomed • 18 JAN

WESTERN CAPE

Police ‘shoot and kill’ unarmed man in Ceres

GROUNDUP

Judges told to apologise for taking too long over judgments

OPINIONISTA

Dr Martin Luther King Jr was an icon, but he was just one of the tall trees in a very full forest

CORONAVIRUS

Department of Higher Education pumps R68m into Covid-19 research and vaccine development

OPINIONISTA

Affirming medicine as a public good

GROUNDUP

Covid-19: This second wave is relentless, say paramedics

HIGHER EDUCATION

University fee hikes a gremlin for students in the ‘missing middle’

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

Virus politics and the politics of the virus: Epidemics hold up a mirror to our society

Antoinette Handley • 13 JAN

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono remanded on ‘unconstitutional’ charges

Frank Chikowore • 13 JAN

GROUNDUP

Covid-19: Long, tightly packed queues outside labour department add to UIF applicants’ woes

DM168 Analysis

Covid-19: The vaccine sums don’t add up

BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM