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Payment pending — how the Fred Daniel matter taints the state attorney
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Payment pending — how the Fred Daniel matter taints the state attorney

In September 2025, when conservationist Fred Daniel was awarded R306-million in damages by the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria, the ruling was feted as a ‘historic’ victory in the fight against state-sponsored corruption. But, as Daily Maverick reported in February 2026, disturbing questions have been raised by the government’s intention to appeal against the judgment. Now, in its strange reluctance to pay Daniel’s cost orders, the office of the state attorney has been tainted by the case.

By Kevin Bloom
SECRET SNOW SAUCE

South African scientists outperform heavyweights Princeton, Oxford and Stanford in Antarctic research

By Tiara Walters
South African scientists outperform heavyweights Princeton, Oxford and Stanford in Antarctic research
SEISMIC SURVEYS

Aucamp takes aim at ‘decision paralysis’ on appeals against offshore oil/gas exploration

By Ed Stoddard
Aucamp takes aim at ‘decision paralysis’ on appeals against offshore oil/gas exploration
THE STORIED MOUNTAIN

Dear humans: Notes from a baboon who’s been watching you

By Don Pinnock
Dear humans: Notes from a baboon who’s been watching you
ROVING REPORTERS

Living with danger: How moral dilemmas shape conservation in Africa

By Kemunto Ogutu
Living with danger: How moral dilemmas shape conservation in Africa
Two rivers, one disaster: the flood that reshaped Pafuri
BORROWED GROUND

Two rivers, one disaster: the flood that reshaped Pafuri

By Don Pinnock
Between bush and blackboard: How a ranger and creche volunteer is chalking up successes for conservation
ROVING REPORTERS

Between bush and blackboard: How a ranger and creche volunteer is chalking up successes for conservation

By Kemunto Ogutu
Standard Bank backs UNISA’s climate loss and damage research to strengthen South Africa’s resilience
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Standard Bank backs UNISA’s climate loss and damage research to strengthen South Africa’s resilience

By Standard Bank
Shark and awe — lessons from the sacred world of the ocean’s silent predators
OPINIONISTA

Shark and awe — lessons from the sacred world of the ocean’s silent predators

By Hamilton Wende
US Senate chair: Russia ‘violating treaty’ in Antarctic oil, gas hunt via Cape Town
POLAR POLITICS

US Senate chair: Russia ‘violating treaty’ in Antarctic oil, gas hunt via Cape Town

By Tiara Walters
Collecting moments of grace from swifts in a time of war
NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET

Collecting moments of grace from swifts in a time of war

By Don Pinnock
Yellow angels: Table Mountain’s firefighting helicopters
THE STORIED MOUNTAIN

Yellow angels: Table Mountain’s firefighting helicopters

By Don Pinnock
POWER GUZZLER

SA’s biggest data centre ‘monster’ set to consume 25% of Durban’s electricity

By Tony Carnie
SA’s biggest data centre ‘monster’ set to consume 25% of Durban’s electricity
RIGHTS RECOGNITION

Table Mountain not just a backdrop but a rights-bearing presence demanding we listen

By Don Pinnock
Table Mountain not just a backdrop but a rights-bearing presence demanding we listen
OPINIONISTA

SA’s petroleum regulator cannot be both promoter and referee

By Noxolo Mfocwa
SA’s petroleum regulator cannot be both promoter and referee
VANISHING HERITAGE

Thonga fishing families count the cost of decades-old eviction from Kosi Bay

By Leonie Joubert
CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION

Toxic residues endanger coral reefs in SA’s marine protected areas

By Tony Carnie
OPINIONISTA

The truth about the false narrative of South Africa’s ‘wildlife miracle’

By Adam Cruise
THE STORIED MOUNTAIN

Rough sleepers: The mountain keeps us

By Don Pinnock
Strand residents demand action over persistent sewage leaks that threaten health and endanger beaches
TOXIC WATERS

Strand residents demand action over persistent sewage leaks that threaten health and endanger beaches

As the City of Cape Town balances a billion-rand wastewater infrastructure overhaul with a collapsing estuarine system, the shadow of illness and ecological decay has fallen over one of the Western Cape’s most iconic coastlines.

By Lerato Mutsila
OPINIONISTA

Why the President needs to stop efforts to scupper South Africa’s carbon tax

By Richard Halsey
THE STORIED MOUNTAIN

What it takes to keep Table Mountain wild

By Don Pinnock
WEATHER WATCH

Wet winter forecast for southeast SA, southwest looks worryingly dry

By Ed Stoddard
BULLET DODGED

South Africa’s carbon tax survives Budget but debates on its future continue

By Craig Bentley-McKune
The fluid intelligence of Table Mountain’s rivers
THE STORIED MOUNTAIN

The fluid intelligence of Table Mountain’s rivers

By Don Pinnock
Hawks stop alleged Vietnamese wildlife trafficker from fleeing SA justice
AIRPORT SWOOP

Hawks stop alleged Vietnamese wildlife trafficker from fleeing SA justice

By Simon Bloch
Mpumalanga moves to shut down captive lion breeding
ANALYSIS

Mpumalanga moves to shut down captive lion breeding

By Don Pinnock
Hotter, drier, wilder: How Table Mountain National Park is reinventing conservation for a changing climate
THE STORIED MOUNTAIN

Hotter, drier, wilder: How Table Mountain National Park is reinventing conservation for a changing climate

By Don Pinnock
Table Mountain’s green cloak that took 60 million years to weave
THE STORIED MOUNTAIN

Table Mountain’s green cloak that took 60 million years to weave

By Don Pinnock

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