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LOCAL GOVERNMENT: NELSON MANDELA BAY

Gqeberha follies: The absent councillor, the close vote and the dramatic collapse of coalition talks

Estelle Ellis
6 mins

State of our Fathers Report

Experts agree it’s high time that perceptions of fatherhood in South Africa are challenged — in some cases corrected

Jennifer Smout

COVID-19 UPDATE

Worrying variant of coronavirus, with many unknown mutations, driving resurgence of infections in Gauteng

Estelle Ellis

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THE CONVERSATION: THE VARIANT

Omicron is the new COVID kid on the block: five steps to avoid, ten to take immediately

Shabir A Madhi
6 mins

GROUNDUP: ANALYSIS

Suspension of Prasa CEO Zolani Matthews — an appointment permeated with an international legacy of scandal

James Stent for GroundUp
12 mins

The Conversation Op-ed

The hunt for coronavirus variants: how the new one was found and what we know so far

Wolfgang Preiser, Cathrine Scheepers, Jinal Bhiman, Marietjie Venter & Tulio de Oliveira
6 mins

GroundUp

Cabinet announces Zimbabwe Exemption Permits will not be extended beyond 31 December

Tariro Washinyira
4 mins

CORONAVIRUS

Scientists race to unravel the secrets of a new Covid-19 variant first identified in South Africa

Estelle Ellis
8 mins

OMICRON VARIANT

Ramaphosa keeps South Africa on Level 1, slams travel bans as ‘unjustified and not informed by science’

Estelle Ellis
8 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

South Africa

‘It’s heartbreaking — people are devastated’: OR Tambo airline passengers hard hit by travel ban
COVID-19

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
South Africa

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
COVID-19

Advice to Government: SA can get through the Covid-19 maze ahead of the festive season – here’s how
South Africa

R20bn life extension of Koeberg power station poses significant risks for South Africa
Africa

Former Botswana president Ian Khama denies fleeing the country
2021 Local Elections

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

groundup hard living

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s tapless, impoverished hometown — no country for old women

Mkhuseli Sizani for GroundUp

FOCUS ON HOMELESSNESS

The skarrel is real: How the homeless are forced to eke out a living on Cape Town’s streets

Sandisiwe Shoba

Tuesday Editorial

Eastern Cape drought: Water should never be a political issue

Estelle Ellis

COVID-19 OP-ED

Business for SA calls for vaccine mandates in the workplace and public access restrictions for the unvaccinated

Business for SA

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

Europe debates new curbs; South Africa registers 1,275 new cases

Bloomberg

Street Talk Video

Artists battle for support in local communities, where voices rarely carry to national levels

Sinazo Mpotulo

NOT A DROP TO DRINK

Eastern Cape: Thirsty for service delivery, pensioners turn to courts for much-needed water provision from government

Estelle Ellis
3 mins

CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

Omicron symptoms mild so far; South Africa registers 2,858 new cases

Bloomberg
9 mins

SPOTLIGHT: ORDER OF THE BAOBAB

World expert on cervical cancer Professor Lynette Denny reflects on an extraordinary life of service

Biénne Huisman for Spotlight
8 mins

LIFE ESIDIMENI TRAGEDY

Portraits of lives lost: Parents fear starvation killed their son

Harriet Perlman and Darnell Nxumalo. Pictures by Mark Lewis
2 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

Omicron ‘Mild’ So Far, Experts Say, But WHO Urges Caution
Newsdeck

Barbados ditches Britain’s Queen Elizabeth to become a republic
Newsdeck

Airlines skid on South Africa travel bans tied to variant
Newsdeck

Danish frigate kills four pirates in Gulf of Guinea

GroundUp OP-ED

Default strategy: Government uses delaying tactics to restrict access to Sanral toll records — Outa

Brendan Slade

Maverick Citizen: Academic independence

On Board with Nestlé? Academics express concern over conflicts of interest

Mark Heywood

HEALTH CONFERENCE

Covid-19 takes a growing toll on South Africa’s children

Rebecca Pitt

COVID-19

The Omicron variant: What now for South Africa?

Jeffrey Dorfman, Francois Venter and Jonny Myers

OPINIONISTA

Our children are gone with the wind as the school dropout rate reaches gale-force

Michael le Cordeur

Maverick Citizen

Minister Mchunu’s Water Puzzle in parts of the Eastern Cape

Dr Jack & Curtis

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CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE

EU clears vaccine for children aged five to 11; South Africa registers 2,465 new cases

Bloomberg
7 mins

ZAPIRO

New Variant

Zapiro

GROUNDUP

Catastrophic decline in the South African music industry sounds death knell for local artists

Niki Moore
7 mins

Omicron

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban

Nathi and Africartoons
< 1 min

POSITIVELY GLOWING

A life resurrected — an opera about Aids and the life of queer activist Simon Nkoli

Mark Heywood
6 mins

FREE THE STREETS OP-ED

People enjoy car-free spaces, so why don’t we have more of them?

Marcela Guerrero Casas
6 mins

OPINIONISTA

Obstetric violence: A war against women that is being waged in the shadows

Sheena Swemmer
5 mins

SEXUAL VIOLENCE OP-ED

Inaction of education authorities and police continues to fail sexually abused children

Boitumelo Masipa and Tasneem Kathrada
5 mins

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

The future of politics in South Africa shifts after coalition window closes with seismic changes at metro level
2021 Local Elections

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

Ekurhuleni’s DA mayor faces ‘mammoth’ task after ‘shock’ votes from EFF, ActionSA
2021 Local Elections

Western Cape: DA the biggest winner after all municipal councils are constituted
2021 Local Elections

Ethics? Journalist Edwin Ntshidi appointed councillor after reporting on elections
2021 Local Elections

DA mayor for Dr Beyers Naude Local Municipality after last-minute coalition deal
2021 Local Elections

DA’s Randall Williams retained as mayor of Tshwane thanks to ActionSA boost

BUSINESS MAVERICK

South Africa

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
COVID-19

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis
DM168

Athol Williams: ‘I will continue whistle-blowing and making the corrupt uncomfortable’
South Africa

Shell to go ahead with Wild Coast seismic survey despite backlash and Express Petroleum pullout
Africa

Buyout of South African companies by foreign investors continues apace

MAVERICK CITIZEN

COVID-19

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis
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

Festive season roll-out: Covid vaccine boosters will only be available to public in mid-December
COVID-19

Undocumented immigrants: ‘No one is informing us what we should do to get the jabs’
COVID-19

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

OUR BURNING PLANET

South Africa

Shell to go ahead with Wild Coast seismic survey despite backlash and Express Petroleum pullout
South Africa

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
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Choppy waters: More coastal surveys in the pipeline for South Africa
South Africa

The dirty business of apartheid-era dinosaurs: Inside an Eskom coal-fired power plant
Our Burning Planet

Where kings swim: Fears N2 Wild Coast Road project will threaten giant trevally migration while paving over residents’ histories 

MAVERICK LIFE

Business Maverick

Deep Collusion by Athol Williams: Bain was ‘right at the centre of strategising and planning projects that would facilitate state capture’
DM168

Mr Steenhuisen is the boss South Africa needs
Sport

The man with (nearly) all the answers: Samuel Johannes Jacobus Jantjies
Maverick Citizen

Obsessive-compulsive disorder: What it is and what to do if you suffer from its symptoms
DM168

Vote for Daily Maverick’s people of the year

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

The future of politics in South Africa shifts after coalition window closes with seismic changes at metro level
2021 Local Elections

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

Ekurhuleni’s DA mayor faces ‘mammoth’ task after ‘shock’ votes from EFF, ActionSA
2021 Local Elections

Western Cape: DA the biggest winner after all municipal councils are constituted
2021 Local Elections

Ethics? Journalist Edwin Ntshidi appointed councillor after reporting on elections
2021 Local Elections

DA mayor for Dr Beyers Naude Local Municipality after last-minute coalition deal
2021 Local Elections

DA’s Randall Williams retained as mayor of Tshwane thanks to ActionSA boost

BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM

WTO talks: A deal could get Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries fast, but guess who’s blocking it?

Liesl Pretorius
10 mins

CLEANER, GREENER ACADEMIA

Wits Council resolves to appoint Pro-Vice-Chancellor for climate sustainability and inequality

Mark Heywood
4 mins

DISINFORMATION IN A TIME OF COVID-19 OP-ED

How to rapidly combat digital harms and cybersecurity threats

William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi
5 mins

GROUNDUP

Parched Musina residents demand long-awaited water supply

Bernard Chiguvare for GroundUp
2 mins

INFORMAL SECTOR OP-ED

Don’t treat street hawkers as a nuisance – they feed the city’s poor communities, cheaply and efficiently

Mark Paterson
5 mins

16 Days of Activism OP-ED

Campaigning against GBV must be a trade union priority: SA must ratify ILO’s Violence and Harassment Convention

Ferron Pedro
6 mins

MAVERICK CITIZEN: LEARN & TEACH

What South African children are saying about Covid and vaccination

RX Radio
4 mins

OPINIONISTA

The death of a myth: It is now too late for De Klerk to reflect, grow and change

Lwando Xaso
4 mins

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SCORPIO

South Africa

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

Testimony of Insure Group Managers chief at VBS inquiry seems to imply a lack of honesty and integrity
South Africa

NPA vs Regiments Capital: A dress rehearsal for one of State Capture’s biggest trials
SCORPIO

Wife of Ace Magashule’s murdered ‘bagman’ in R20m SARS bind
South Africa

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

AMABHUNGANE

South Africa

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

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

Update: My big fat Gupta wedding – the movie
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

GLOBAL INVESTIGATIONS

Africa

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

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

Priti Patel’s new threat to British journalists

SPORTS

Sport

Seventh heaven as Messi clinches record Ballon d’Or award
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Vote for Daily Maverick’s people of the year
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Springboks – Tests highlight challenges for defending world champs in 2023
Sport

Cricket: South Africa shell-shocked after Stokes’ fireworks – Elgar
DM168

Ballon d’Or 2021 favourite Robert Lewandowski faces stiff competition

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

Throwback Thursday: Ouma onder die kombers (meatballs in cabbage leaves)
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Brinjal coconut curry with yellow rice
TGIFood

Kosmik Karoo: Welcome to the Dinner Party in the Sky
DM168

Vote for Daily Maverick’s people of the year
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Chocolate-coffee muffins

MOTORING

South Africa

Un bakkie très élégant: The new Peugeot Landtrek
DM168

After the ICE age: Toyota launches Corolla Cross in the wake of the demise of the internal combustion engine
Business Maverick

The Mercedes V-Class is some kind of wonderful, but the hefty price puts it out of reach
DM168

Owning an electric vehicle could become easy like sundae morning
Business Maverick

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

TOP READS THIS WEEK

South Africa

Mbeki warns 2021 results represent reversal for progressive movement and advance for right-wing forces
South Africa

‘It’s heartbreaking — people are devastated’: OR Tambo airline passengers hard hit by travel ban
South Africa

Behind EFF’s anti-ANC vote: Julius Malema’s big plan to topple Ramaphosa
COVID-19

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
South Africa

ANC crashes out of Joburg metro — DA’s Dr Mpho Phalatse becomes mayor of South Africa’s biggest city

AFRICA

Africa

Four scenarios and the funeral(s): Ethiopian powder keg is ready to explode in tragic ways
Africa

Gaddafi Jnr’s bid for president signals waning influence of ICC
Africa

Blessing Munyenyiwa: Victoria Falls’ innovator, conservationist and man with a mission
Africa

Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya
DM168

Presidential race: The ghost of Muammar Gaddafi stalks Libya

Coronavirus

COVID-19

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
COVID-19

Advice to Government: SA can get through the Covid-19 maze ahead of the festive season – here’s how
COVID-19

Worrying variant of coronavirus, with many unknown mutations, driving resurgence of infections in Gauteng
COVID-19

UK’s ‘knee-jerk’ Red List temporary ban throws South African travellers, tourism industry and airlines into a muddle
COVID-19

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 9 January 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – TGIF, 8 May 2020
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 September 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
South Africa

The ethical codes we teach artificial intelligence will determine humanity’s future, says Egyptian author
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

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 47 of 2021
World

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

Our World in Pictures: Week 46 of 2021
Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 42 of 2021
Maverick Life

The fantastic Karroo Theatrical Hotel… oh, the Follies!

In case you missed it

2021 Local Elections

Tuesday Morning: Early results paint bleak picture for ANC as ActionSA threat emerges in Joburg
2021 Local Elections

The Full Picture: View the poll results via Daily Maverick’s customised provincial maps
2021 Local Elections

Herman Mashaba’s Action SA is a breakout story of election – the count continues
South Africa

Zuma’s Crime Intelligence cash-splashing looters at 2012 Mangaung and 2017 Nasrec conferences to be arrested
2021 Local Elections

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

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

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

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is out of the Chief Justice contest
South Africa

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

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

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

Jacob Zuma

South Africa

Zuma’s Crime Intelligence cash-splashing looters at 2012 Mangaung and 2017 Nasrec conferences to be arrested
South Africa

‘Uncooperative’ KZN police commissioner took paternity leave during unrest, says former defence minister
DM168

Beware: Two Zuma men are now in charge of eThekwini
South Africa

Abahlali baseMjondolo president tells SAHRC of ‘food riots’, alleged plot to target Raymond Zondo and police looting complicity
South Africa

Hlophe’s legal bills pile up, questions are asked of his behaviour in gang bail matter, while six top judges join court case

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