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THE CONVERSATION

You love amagwinya/puff puff/bofrot? Here’s a healthier version of Africa’s favourite snack

Oluwatoyin Onipe and Afam I. O. Jideani
4 mins

PERFECT SENSE

Betony Vernon: In pursuit of greater sensual pleasure and sexual wellness for all

Malibongwe Tyilo

IN IMAGES

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

Maverick Life Editors

POSITIVELY GLOWING

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

Mark Heywood

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THE CONVERSATION

Cows and cars should not be conflated in climate change debates

Ian Scoones
4 mins

PODCAST REVIEW

This week we’re listening to: How knowledge is power in fighting climate change

Sarah Hoek
4 mins

Mental Health

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

Téa Bell
5 mins

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 47 of 2021

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Op-ed

A return to source: Saving the Witwatersrand’s ancient freshwater system to save South Africa’s rivers

Willem Snyman
8 mins

REFLECTION

Des & Dawn: The lives and times of an inseparable duo

Tony Jackman
11 mins

THE CONVERSATION

Benin bronzes: What is the significance of their repatriation to Nigeria?

Joey Akan, Usifo Omozokpea and Jos van Buerden
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LESSONS FROM MY FATHER

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

Herschel Jantjies
12 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

South Africa

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

The ANC’s unbearable splintering of being
Business Maverick

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico

BOOK EXTRACT

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

The Reading List

THE CONVERSATION

Nigeria’s digital currency: what the eNaira is for and why it’s not perfect

Iwa Salami

SIGN OF THE TIMES

Postmodern media blurring: A diminishing sense of national conversation

Emma Dollery

THE CONVERSATION

Herbal skin treatments in Uganda get an important scientific boost

Jane Namukobe

HAVE YOUR SAY FOR 2021

Vote for Daily Maverick’s people of the year

Daily Maverick Team

THE CONVERSATION

Curious Kids: Do flies really throw up on your food when they land on it?

Ravindra Palavalli-Nettimi and Jamie Theobald

MATTERS OF OBSESSION

Sparking connection: Brett Bailey’s new immersive outdoor event

Keith Bain
10 mins

POETRY & PROSE

All rhyme, no reason: Eight Poems following the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow

Ian Moll
2 mins

THE CONVERSATION

Curious Kids: How do jellyfish find their food – and how do they poop?

Verena Ras
3 mins

THE CONVERSATION

We unpack what some African countries are doing about tobacco control

Corné van Walbeek and Zunda Chisha
4 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

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

Glaxo Aims for HIV Cure by 2030 as It Looks to Post-Split Future
Newsdeck

Danish frigate kills four pirates in Gulf of Guinea
Newsdeck

Mashaba suspends Joburg Health MMC for declaring friendship with Israel

BIG SCREEN

This weekend we’re watching: The French Dispatch – a Wes Anderson in its optimal form

Tevya Turok Shapiro

PODCAST REVIEW

This week we’re listening to:  A love letter to the streets of Los Angeles

Sarah Hoek

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 46 of 2021

Maverick Life Editors

THE CONVERSATION

LGBT migrants in South Africa: religion can be a blessing, and a curse

John Marnell

BOOK REVIEW

Everlasting grief: Thoughts on the death of Hamnet

Mark Heywood

THE CONVERSATION

I was part of the team that found the Homo naledi child’s skull: how we did it

Marina Elliott

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NATURAL WORLD

Why baboons can’t take photographs

Don Pinnock
6 mins

THE CONVERSATION

Your smile’s cosmic history: we discovered the origin of fluoride in early galaxies

James Geach
4 mins

THE CONVERSATION

Vulnerable lizard species gets hot and bothered in rising temperatures

Juan Scheun, Andre Ganswindt and Trevor McIntyre
4 mins

WELLNESS

How real are the benefits of cold water swimming

Iza Trengove
6 mins

ON THE EVE OF EXTINCTION

When a talking dinosaur addressed the UN on the climate crisis

Téa Bell
5 mins

THE CONVERSATION

A mysterious signal looked like a sign of alien technology — but it turned out to be radio interference

Danny C Price
4 mins

SATIRICALLY SPEAKING

Mr Steenhuisen is the boss South Africa needs

Malibongwe Tyilo
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

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

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

Business Maverick

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
Business Maverick

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis
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Athol Williams: ‘I will continue whistle-blowing and making the corrupt uncomfortable’
DM168

The dark world of selling funeral policies in South Africa
Africa

Buyout of South African companies by foreign investors continues apace

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Business Maverick

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

Business Maverick

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
South Africa

Shell’s Wild Coast seismic survey plan encounters fierce resistance from South Africans

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
Maverick Life

Des & Dawn: The lives and times of an inseparable duo

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

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

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

Maverick Life Obituary

Wilbur Smith, bestselling author who reinvented the adventure novel, dies at eighty-eight

Maverick Life Editors
4 mins

THE CONVERSATION

Benin’s groundbreaking new abortion law will save the lives of many women

Ramatou Ouedraogo
5 mins

SMALL SCREEN

This weekend we’re watching: An innovative doccie on anti-cop sentiment and the broken police system

Tevya Turok Shapiro
5 mins

PODCAST REVIEW

This week we’re listening to: A riveting and disturbing foray into South Africa’s rhino-poaching crisis

Ed Stoddard
3 mins

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our World in Pictures: Week 45 of 2021

Maverick Life Editors
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RECIPES

Dinner and dessert with ease and style – Try these Mzansi favourites from Hosting With The Lazy Makoti

The Reading List
3 mins

THE CONVERSATION

FW de Klerk (1936 – 2021): the last apartheid president was driven by pragmatism, not idealism

Christi van der Westhuizen
6 mins

THE CONVERSATION

Young Ghanaians in Europe travel ‘home’ a lot: why their mobility matters

Laura J. Ogden
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

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Springboks – Tests highlight challenges for defending world champs in 2023
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Vote for Daily Maverick’s people of the year
Sport

Kat Swanepoel is a South African superwoman who swims for hope
DM168

Ballon d’Or 2021 favourite Robert Lewandowski faces stiff competition
South Africa

Blitzboks win in Dubai while Omicron uncertainty shakes world sport

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

Throwback Thursday: Coleslaw, revisited

MOTORING

South Africa

Un bakkie très élégant: The new Peugeot Landtrek
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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

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

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

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

Judge John Hlophe grants bail to Anti-Gang Unit cop implicated in Charl Kinnear murder — then rescinds it

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

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

Pretoria to ask UK to reverse ‘rushed’ decision to put South Africa back on travel Red List
COVID-19

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judge John Hlophe grants bail to Anti-Gang Unit cop implicated in Charl Kinnear murder — then rescinds it

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