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Here’s how and why you should create an emergency fund

Malibongwe Tyilo
3 mins

OP-ED

New architecture is needed for Africa’s music to ignite the world

Jay Savage

THE CONVERSATION

Can taking vitamins and supplements help you recover from Covid-19?

Treasure McGuire

SWEET SPOT

How excess sugar can impact children’s brain development

Emma Dollery

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THE CONVERSATION

The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial shows the dangers of fan culture

Maddie Brockbank
4 mins

THE CONVERSATION

60 years and 14 Doctors: how Doctor Who has changed with the times – and Ncuti Gatwa’s casting is the natural next step

Marcus Harmes
4 mins

PHOTOGRAPHY

2022 Cannes Film Festival: On the red carpet, protests highlighting sexual and gender-based violence

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SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Gwede Mantashe is the disciplinarian South Africa needs

Malibongwe Tyilo
5 mins

THE CONVERSATION

What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains what’s known about this smallpox cousin

Rodney E. Rohde
3 mins

MUSIC OP-ED

The evolution of Kendrick Lamar – A masterpiece in the making

Jacob Cloete
4 mins

THE CONVERSATION

Here’s how much sleep you really need for optimal cognition and wellbeing – new research

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Jianfeng Feng and Wei Cheng
4 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

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2022 Cannes Film Festival: On the red carpet, protests highlighting sexual and gender-based violence
Africa

Top Home Affairs official dismissed over ‘prophet’ Shepherd Bushiri’s permanent residency
South Africa

German Chancellor Scholz to ask Ramaphosa how he can remain non-aligned on Ukraine
South Africa

Nearly R1bn — cost of a soured Eastern Cape school tablet deal with Iqbal Survé-linked group
South Africa

ANC’s policy document wish list may yet alter South Africa’s future for the better
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A wake-up call for Health Department heads: Children are dying because of horrendous state of our public hospitals
South Africa

NPA sting puts two businessmen, top Eastern Cape official in dock over bribe linked to R36m police tender

THE CONVERSATION

Antjie Krog and the role of the poet in South Africa’s public life

Anthea Garman

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ is a dazzling, must-watch sci-fi spectacle

Tevya Turok Shapiro

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 20 of 2022

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LEAP OF FAITH

South African makes history as he jumps off Mount Everest and glides into the wild blue yonder

Karabo Mafolo

THE CONVERSATION

What are NFTs – and why are they so expensive?

Francesc Rodriguez-Tous

Music

Magnus Opus: Yakhal’ Inkomo by South African jazz legend Winston Mankunku Ngozi

Zach Lees
2 mins

OPINIONISTA

The Secret Histories of Books

Ben Williams
3 mins

THE CONVERSATION

How we captured first image of the supermassive black hole at centre of the Milky Way

Derek Ward-Thompson
4 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

WHO says monkeypox outbreak ‘containable’, confirms 131 cases outside Africa
Newsdeck

Ukraine rejects concessions as Russians attack in east and south
Newsdeck

Plot to Kill George W. Bush in Revenge for Iraq War Was Foiled, FBI Says
Newsdeck

Teenage gunman kills 19 children and teacher at Texas elementary school

THE CONVERSATION

How should Dostoevsky and Tolstoy be read during Russia’s war against Ukraine?

Ani Kokobobo

BOOK REVIEW

Academic’s in-depth account of Marikana massacre marred by curious omissions

Ed Stoddard

MAVERICK LIFE ANSWERS

Maverick Life answers your burning lifestyle questions: Tell us what you want to know

Maverick Life Editors

REFLECTION

Touchy-feely: Emotion isn’t just in fashion — it may be the new path to success

Karin Schimke

WELLNESS

Choices you can make now for better health in old age

Malibongwe Tyilo

BOOK EXTRACT

‘Lost on the Map’ — A memoir of colonial illusions

Bryan Rostron

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THE CONVERSATION

Wealthy nations are carving up space and its riches – and leaving other countries behind

Theodora Ogden
4 mins

MATTERS OF OBSESSION

May-Eliane Miailhe — an enriching journey of class through glass

Deborah Rudman
4 mins

BOOK EXCERPT

Chasing Freedom: Histories, Analyses and Voices of Student Activism in South Africa

Itumeleng Mafatshe
7 mins

MATTERS OF OBSESSION

Elisa Iannacone artfully turns the colour wheel on imagining social injustice

Kathy Berman
6 mins

THE CONVERSATION

What does an octopus eat? For a creature with a brain in each arm, whatever’s within reach

Erin Spencer and Yannis Papastamatiou
3 mins

BOOK RECIPE

Classic beef burgers followed by chocolate mousse pie: A recipe by chef Sinoyolo Sifo for a mouthwatering evening

The Reading List
5 mins

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

South Africa’s construction mafia sets its sights on local government extortion
2021 Local Elections

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

Foggers have ‘no role’ in preventing Covid, but IEC is still sending them to all voting stations – at taxpayers’ expense
2021 Local Elections

The filth and the fury: Desperate Makhanda residents obtain court order forcing municipality to clean up the town
2021 Local Elections

Vereeniging brought to its knees by consistent blackouts, sanitation collapse and pollution
2021 Local Elections

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

DA’s post-election spin is Trumpian in its ‘alternative facts’

BUSINESS MAVERICK

South Africa

John Lamola’s dual role at SAA flies in the face of good corporate governance – Institute of Directors
South Africa

The tricky adventures of Richemont, Johann Rupert and nominative determinism
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Even tougher times ahead for SA’s middle class thanks to perfect storm of rising costs
South Africa

Global unrest spikes to levels last seen at onset of pandemic, says IMF
Podcasts

Listen: A warm welcome from Davos

MAVERICK CITIZEN

COVID-19

CCMA upholds another dismissal over refusal to vaccinate
COVID-19

Epidemics in South Africa: Key lessons on mass vaccination drives learnt from history
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Expert sounds alarm on fifth wave after Covid-19 curve turns upwards in SA
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Scientists identify high chance of reinfection with Omicron subvariants for unvaccinated
COVID-19

Two years into the Covid disaster, where do we stand?

OUR BURNING PLANET

South Africa

KZN flood disaster: ‘Water was quickly rising and I saw that my house would fall’
South Africa

Weekend rains weren’t enough to stave off Day Zero in Nelson Mandela Bay in just three weeks
South Africa

While South Africans endure load shedding, government launches 147MW Roggeveld wind farm
South Africa

Eastern Cape municipalities pump raw sewage into waterways
South Africa

Energy regulator to oppose court application by ecogroup to review Karpowership licences

MAVERICK LIFE

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2022 Cannes Film Festival: On the red carpet, protests highlighting sexual and gender-based violence
South Africa

South African makes history as he jumps off Mount Everest and glides into the wild blue yonder
South Africa

Gwede Mantashe is the disciplinarian South Africa needs
Maverick Life

Here’s how much sleep you really need for optimal cognition and wellbeing – new research
Maverick Life

Choices you can make now for better health in old age

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

South Africa’s construction mafia sets its sights on local government extortion
2021 Local Elections

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

Foggers have ‘no role’ in preventing Covid, but IEC is still sending them to all voting stations – at taxpayers’ expense
2021 Local Elections

The filth and the fury: Desperate Makhanda residents obtain court order forcing municipality to clean up the town
2021 Local Elections

Vereeniging brought to its knees by consistent blackouts, sanitation collapse and pollution
2021 Local Elections

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

DA’s post-election spin is Trumpian in its ‘alternative facts’

THE CONVERSATION

Can Themba: South Africa’s rebel journalist was a teacher at heart

Siphiwo Mahala
5 mins

BOOK EXCERPT

The Dream Deferred (updated) – Thabo Mbeki, post-presidency

Mark Gevisser
8 mins

POETRY ESSAY

All rhyme, no reason: Bedtime (and wake-up) poems for Davos WEF 2022

Ian Moll
4 mins

THE CONVERSATION

New book unpacks the complexities of whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa

Christi van der Westhuizen
4 mins

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Clark Olofsson – or the story of Stockholm syndrome

Tevya Turok Shapiro
5 mins

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 19 of 2022

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ROADS NO LONGER TRAVELLED

This is the shiny new bridge that killed the fabled journey to Catembe and the Ponte mercado

Bridget Hilton-Barber
7 mins

BRAVE ACTIVISM AWARD

Amal and George Clooney foundation honours Justice Albie Sachs for courageous work fighting for justice

Victoria O’Regan
3 mins

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SCORPIO

South Africa

NPA sting puts two businessmen, top Eastern Cape official in dock over bribe linked to R36m police tender
South Africa

Cogta-linked official charged over R160k Digital Vibes ‘kickbacks’
South Africa

Exposed: Zweli Mkhize’s R6m ‘cut’ from PIC’s R1.4bn deal using Unemployment Insurance Fund money
South Africa

Shayne’s World: How R1.8bn in UIF cash vanished in Coast2Coast debt hole
South Africa

Digital Vibes scandal: The story behind the story

AMABHUNGANE

South Africa

Fuel thieves siphon off millions from Mpumalanga Eskom power station
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
Africa

Cameroon: The corrupt and brutal Central African state is run by five men — with support from the United Kingdom
Declassified UK

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

Torture ‘for your amusement’: How Thatcher’s government misled MPs and public about its dealings with the Pinochet regime
Africa

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

SPORTS

South Africa

Explosive Semenya interview reveals her humiliation over gender scrutiny
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Eben Etzebeth’s long quest for respect
Sport

Osaka ponders skipping Wimbledon amid ranking points sanction storm
South Africa

South African makes history as he jumps off Mount Everest and glides into the wild blue yonder
South Africa

PSL prosecutor Zola Majavu expects no further disciplinary setbacks as league draws to a close

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

Charcuterie 101: When a country cooking school came to town
TGIFood

Kingdom of fine herbs
TGIFood

Una Más brings Mezcal craft to the Sea Point strip
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Gremolata potato wedges
TGIFood

Awards honour those who kept restaurant doors open

MOTORING

South Africa

The Honda Ballade is back
South Africa

Mercedes-Benz SA launches its premium C-Class sedan — a new baby S-Class
South Africa

Hyundai SA’s all-new high-performance Kona N is guaranteed to make you grin
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The Bentley Continental GT is unique, and for that you’re going to pay dearly
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The new Porsche 911 GT3 is a simply sensational sports car

TOP READS THIS WEEK

South Africa

Tshwane’s stadium that never was: R140m to build, R84m to demolish
South Africa

SCA Judge President Maya drags her heels on Zuma case, raising eyebrows
South Africa

Nine Eskom workers suspended for hydrogen explosion at Medupi power station
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A wake-up call for Health Department heads: Children are dying because of horrendous state of our public hospitals
South Africa

‘A catastrophe’ – Minister Bheki Cele describes shocking work conditions for SA police

AFRICA

Africa

International elephant corridor put at risk by killing of Botswana’s largest tuskers
Africa

Courage, charisma not enough to defeat Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections
Africa

Ugandan troops in Cabo Delgado could ignite powder keg of domestic conflict
COVID-19

Covid-19 corruption deepens wounds of pandemic across Africa 
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This is the shiny new bridge that killed the fabled journey to Catembe and the Ponte mercado

Coronavirus

COVID-19

A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
COVID-19

SA government’s Covid-19 management in the crosshairs
COVID-19

NICD confirms 5,096 new Covid infections in SA on Tuesday
COVID-19

What the latest Covid stats can tell us – and what they can’t
COVID-19

Severance pay denied to employee who refused Covid vaccination

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 9 January 2021
Crosswords

Jason and John’s test crossword
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 4 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – TGIF, 8 May 2020

WEBINARS

Webinars

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

Fast-food advertising targeting children puts their health and futures at risk, say experts
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

Climate crisis will worsen brutality against African migrants as their fate is outsourced to a failed state, investigator warns

LOOK & LISTEN

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Our World in Pictures: Week 07 of 2022
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The lyrical and visionary world of Virgil Abloh (1980 – 2021)
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Our World in Pictures: Week 06 of 2022
Maverick Life

This month on your screen: True-crime thrillers, science fiction adventures and photorealistic dinosaurs
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Sex, drugs and rotten trolls: Celebrity gossipers send digital standards down the tubes

In case you missed it

South Africa

Tshwane’s stadium that never was: R140m to build, R84m to demolish
South Africa

SCA Judge President Maya drags her heels on Zuma case, raising eyebrows
South Africa

Exclusive: Gupta legal team exits BDK Attorneys
South Africa

Nine Eskom workers suspended for hydrogen explosion at Medupi power station
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A wake-up call for Health Department heads: Children are dying because of horrendous state of our public hospitals

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

‘Fearless and independent’ SA courts hailed for holding the line against Zuma onslaught
South Africa

Judge Hlophe not ‘untouchable’, should not be given ‘free pass’ – full Bench of Gauteng High Court
South Africa

JSC recommends Ronald Hendricks, Denzil Potgieter and Vuyokazi Noncembu for high court positions
South Africa

‘Imperial Presidency the weak link in the Constitution’ — retired Justice Dikgang Moseneke
South Africa

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

Jacob Zuma

South Africa

Tshwane’s stadium that never was: R140m to build, R84m to demolish
South Africa

SCA Judge President Maya drags her heels on Zuma case, raising eyebrows
South Africa

Nine Eskom workers suspended for hydrogen explosion at Medupi power station
DM168

A wake-up call for Health Department heads: Children are dying because of horrendous state of our public hospitals
South Africa

‘A catastrophe’ – Minister Bheki Cele describes shocking work conditions for SA police

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