SMALL SCREEN

This weekend we’re watching: ‘The House,’ a spooky stop-motion anthology about materialism

Tevya Turok Shapiro

5 mins

PODCAST REVIEW

Want to be moved and excited by science? This week we’re listening to ‘Ologies’

Sarah Hoek

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 03 of 2022

Maverick Life Editors

BOOK EXCERPT

The Every: The hilarious and horrifying new novel from Dave Eggers

The Reading List

‘They’ll have to bring bouncers’: Former ANC rebel Makhosi Khoza squares up to her new party, ActionSA

World

South Africa won’t stick its neck out to defend underdog in Ukraine’s fight with Russia

South Africa

Limpopo: No schools with 0% pass rate for first time in five years a bright spot in gloomy matric results

South Africa

Lindiwe Sisulu’s F-you to Ramaphosa should surprise no one — here’s why

South Africa

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

South Africa

Sisulu blasts Ramaphosa’s ‘mischievous’ media team for allegedly misrepresenting outcomes of their meeting

TGIFood

First Marmite, now fish paste: The shattered world of a simple breakfast

Dominica Citizenship by Investment: South Africans are finding security in one of the safest countries in the Caribbean

CS Global Partners

EXOTIC OFFICE

Working on the road: How digital nomads have the best of both worlds

Sarah Hoek

THE CONVERSATION

Asteroids, the Moon and Mars: space missions to look forward to in 2022

Monica Grady

FILM REVIEW

Kinship makes us human: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’

Thiago Braga

Say goodbye to loadshedding blues with the amazing new MacBook Pro range from iStore

iStore

THE CONVERSATION

Curious Kids: Why are there so few impact craters on Earth?

Roger Lawrence Gibson

Global news

Newsdeck

UK’s Johnson, facing ‘pork pie’ plot to oust him, says he will not resign

Newsdeck

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

Newsdeck

Huge explosion in Ghana mining region kills residents, fells buildings

Newsdeck

British-Belgian teen becomes youngest woman to fly solo round the world

THE CONVERSATION

Four New Year’s resolutions for a healthier environment in 2022

Viniece Jennings

LUXURY ESCAPE

Slowboating: Float away from this crazy world

Don Pinnock

TECH

2022: The year of the metaverse gold rush

Malibongwe Tyilo

THE CONVERSATION

Why some people find it harder to be happy

Jolanta Burke

SIGN OF THE TIMES

Semigration: Is it time to leave the city?

Sarah Hoek

THE CONVERSATION

Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil rights movement on screen

Aram Goudsouzian

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

Cape Town’s youngest mayor yet, but an old DA hand – ‘excited’ Geordin Hill-Lewis is ready for the hot seat

BUSINESS MAVERICK

South Africa

Tiger Brands appoints first Venture Capital Fund director

South Africa

Cheap but not nasty — the new Chery Tiggo 4 Pro 1.5T Elite

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

South Africa

Koeberg’s ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ outage likely to put extra stress on South African electricity grid

MAVERICK CITIZEN

COVID-19

How South Africa differs from the rest of Africa in recording and using coronavirus data

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

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

COVID-19

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

OUR BURNING PLANET

Our Burning Planet

Mantashe boots civil society representative from nuclear regulator just as contentious Koeberg work gets nod

South Africa

Liesbeek development ‘better for indigenous cultural heritage’, counsel argues, while raising fears Amazon could pull out

Maverick Citizen

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

South Africa

Fishers and civic organisations take legal action against West Coast seismic surveying

South Africa

A linchpin of SA’s recycling economy, informal waste pickers should be integrated into the mainstream economy

MAVERICK LIFE

Maverick Life

Don’t look up: several asteroids are heading towards Earth – here’s how we deal with threats in real life

Maverick Life

Why some people find it harder to be happy

South Africa

Lindiwe Sisulu is the spiritual leader South Africa needs

Maverick Life

Working on the road: How digital nomads have the best of both worlds

Maverick Life

The Every: The hilarious and horrifying new novel from Dave Eggers

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

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

2021 Local Elections

Cape Town’s youngest mayor yet, but an old DA hand – ‘excited’ Geordin Hill-Lewis is ready for the hot seat

SCORPIO

South Africa

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

SCORPIO

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

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

Business Maverick

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

AMABHUNGANE

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

Business Maverick

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

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

Exclusive: British army earns money recruiting police for Singapore in ‘bizarre’ colonial-era scheme

SPORTS

South Africa

Proteas coach Mark Boucher charged with gross misconduct midway through ODI series

DM168

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

South Africa

Bavuma and Van der Dussen centuries steer Proteas to ODI victory against India

South Africa

South African sides return to confusing and congested URC fixtures with Bok-laden squads

DM168

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

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

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

TGIFood

First Marmite, now fish paste: The shattered world of a simple breakfast

TGIFood

The Divine Fordsburg bakery where location anchors all

TGIFood

Culinary schools in South Africa need to be decolonised

TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Kingklip fried in turmeric butter

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

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

South Africa

‘They’ll have to bring bouncers’: Former ANC rebel Makhosi Khoza squares up to her new party, ActionSA

South Africa

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

South Africa

Lindiwe Sisulu’s F-you to Ramaphosa should surprise no one — here’s why

DM168

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

AFRICA

Africa

West raising red flags over Wagner’s expanding mercenary reach in CAR and other African nations

Africa

Richard Leakey — a giant among students of human origins

DM168

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

Africa

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

Africa

Botswana’s big problem is not elephants, but runaway bushfires

Coronavirus

DM168

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

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

COVID-19

Ontario to crack down on doctor misinformation; South Africa registers 4,322 new cases

DM168

Critical aspects of the Covid pandemic life that we should keep and preserve

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

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

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

2021 Local Elections

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

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

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

Maverick Life

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

Webinars

Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele: Falling in love while dreaming of a life of racial liberation

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

‘They’ll have to bring bouncers’: Former ANC rebel Makhosi Khoza squares up to her new party, ActionSA

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

Showdown looms after Lindiwe Sisulu denies Presidency statement that she apologised and retracted her attack on judges

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

DM168

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

South Africa

‘They’ll have to bring bouncers’: Former ANC rebel Makhosi Khoza squares up to her new party, ActionSA

South Africa

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

South Africa

Lindiwe Sisulu’s F-you to Ramaphosa should surprise no one — here’s why

DM168

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

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Maverick Life

SMALL SCREEN

This weekend we’re watching: ‘The House,’ a spooky stop-motion anthology about materialism

Tevya Turok Shapiro

PODCAST REVIEW

Want to be moved and excited by science? This week we’re listening to ‘Ologies’

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 03 of 2022

BOOK EXCERPT

The Every: The hilarious and horrifying new novel from Dave Eggers

THE CONVERSATION

Quantum entanglement: what it is, and why physicists want to harness it

FOOD PARCELS

Tannie Maria’s Love Advice and Recipe Column: Amarula Pot Pudding (cooked on a fire)

OPINIONISTA

The Covid column, or How to be a better writer in 2022

THE CONVERSATION

Lindiwe Mabuza: feminist icon who used art to fight for democracy in South Africa

THE FUTURE OF MOTORING

The Sony car and five electric concept cars unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show 22

THE CONVERSATION

Don’t look up: several asteroids are heading towards Earth – here’s how we deal with threats in real life

BOOK RECIPE

A showstopper cake to kick off the year – and it’s healthy too!

THE CONVERSATION

Five exciting African museums to add to your travel wish list

TOP READS THIS HOUR

‘They’ll have to bring bouncers’: Former ANC rebel Makhosi Khoza squares up to her new party, ActionSA

South Africa won’t stick its neck out to defend underdog in Ukraine’s fight with Russia

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Lindiwe Sisulu’s F-you to Ramaphosa should surprise no one — here’s why

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

Sisulu blasts Ramaphosa’s ‘mischievous’ media team for allegedly misrepresenting outcomes of their meeting

First Marmite, now fish paste: The shattered world of a simple breakfast

Sponsored Content

Dominica Citizenship by Investment: South Africans are finding security in one of the safest countries in the Caribbean

EXOTIC OFFICE

Working on the road: How digital nomads have the best of both worlds

THE CONVERSATION

Asteroids, the Moon and Mars: space missions to look forward to in 2022

FILM REVIEW

Kinship makes us human: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’

Sponsored Content

Say goodbye to loadshedding blues with the amazing new MacBook Pro range from iStore

THE CONVERSATION

Curious Kids: Why are there so few impact craters on Earth?

SMALL SCREEN

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

Tevya Turok Shapiro

Podcast review

This week we’re listening to: The joy of food in ‘Comfort Eating with Grace Dent’

Sarah Hoek

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Lindiwe Sisulu is the spiritual leader South Africa needs

Malibongwe Tyilo

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 02 of 2022

Maverick Life Editors

Global news

UK’s Johnson, facing ‘pork pie’ plot to oust him, says he will not resign

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

Huge explosion in Ghana mining region kills residents, fells buildings

British-Belgian teen becomes youngest woman to fly solo round the world

THE CONVERSATION

Four New Year’s resolutions for a healthier environment in 2022

LUXURY ESCAPE

Slowboating: Float away from this crazy world

TECH

2022: The year of the metaverse gold rush

THE CONVERSATION

Why some people find it harder to be happy

SIGN OF THE TIMES

Semigration: Is it time to leave the city?

THE CONVERSATION

Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil rights movement on screen

THE CONVERSATION

Are you binge-watching too much? How to know if your TV habits are a problem – and what to do about it

CHRONICLES OF STYLE

South African fashion: Why we need to pay attention

THE CONVERSATION