Our Burning Planet

THE WAY FORWARD

Six key considerations underpinning South Africa’s nascent ‘just transition’ plan

Ethan van Diemen
4 mins

CLIMATE IMPACT

Heating planet could lead to annual $1.6-trillion labour productivity loss, study finds

Julia Evans

KHOISAN COURT BATTLE

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

Onke Ngcuka

TIMING QUESTIONED

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

Tamsin Metelerkamp

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TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION

Widespread, deadly flooding in SA classified as national disaster

Tembile Sgqolana
3 mins

DOWN IN THE DUMPS

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

Michelle Banda
4 mins

KNP IN PERSPECTIVE (PART ONE)

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

Don Pinnock
8 mins

COLD FACT

Climate change will limit choice for Winter Games hosts: study

Steve Keating for Reuters
3 mins

SEA CHANGE

The harpoons are gone, but whales face more complex modern threats

Julia Evans
7 mins

KZN FLOODING

Search continues for teen boy as rain-battered Ladysmith counts cost of floods

Lungi Langa
4 mins

ENERGY TRANSITION OP-ED

Green hydrogen provides answer to many of South Africa’s decarbonisation prayers, studies show

Mariam Isa and Chris Yelland
6 mins

SLOW DEATH

Spike in snare trap placements leading to growing number of wildlife deaths in KZN

Lungi Langa
4 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

South Africa

‘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

The Divine Fordsburg bakery where location anchors all

LIESBEEK DEVELOPMENT

Khoisan group in court battle to halt construction of Amazon Africa headquarters

Onke Ngcuka

WATER CRISIS

Parts of Eastern Cape emerge from drought, but Gqeberha dam levels are still below 19%

Tembile Sgqolana

HYDROCARBON INDUSTRY

Government’s ‘gung-ho approach’ to oil and gas exploration deserves strong resistance — environmental activist

Tembile Sgqolana

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Seismic surveys: Shell’s gone — but another devil has arrived

Onke Ngcuka

JUST TRANSITION

Halt all new coal plants, UN secretary-general tells World Economic Forum

Julia Evans

DEFORESTATION

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

Don Pinnock

DECARBONISE

A new ‘green hydrogen’ venture could change the way we do business

Ethan van Diemen
3 mins

KZN JUMBO ATTACK

Family survives after bull elephant batters and flips car at Lake St Lucia

Tony Carnie
2 mins

TOXIC SPILLS

Creecy beefs up Zululand rivers pollution probe after coal waste collapse

Tony Carnie
6 mins

GROUNDUP

Beachgoers continue to swim despite warnings of severe contamination across Durban shores

Nokulunga Majola for GroundUp
3 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

Huge explosion in Ghana mining region kills residents, fells buildings
Newsdeck

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

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

Fisherman recalls racing tsunami, raining rocks after Tongan volcano erupted

STORM DISASTER

Eastern Cape officials still counting losses after floods kill 14 and displace hundreds

Tembile Sgqolana

ENERGY SUMMIT

The just transition: Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe explains his reasons for sticking with coal

Julia Evans

POWER GENERATION

Electricity demand: Global economic recovery sends coal usage soaring

Ethan van Diemen

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Seismic survey: South Africa’s top science academy calls for rethink on outdated sea-blasting technology

Tony Carnie

TOXIC SPILL

River turns black after coal mine dam collapse next to rural communities and Hluhluwe-iMfolozi game reserve

Tony Carnie

THE CONVERSATION

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

Viniece Jennings

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The Outlaw Ocean Project OP-ED

Exposé makes waves in midst of climate migration storm and EU shadow immigration system controversy

Ian Urbina
11 mins

THE CASE FOR HUNTING OP-ED

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

Namibian Conservation Groups
9 mins

ANALYSIS

A court challenge that could be of enormous benefit to wildlife conservation

Don Pinnock
5 mins

GLOBAL RISKS REPORT 2022

Climate crisis is the biggest long-term threat facing humanity, World Economic Forum warns

Ethan van Diemen
2 mins

DEADLY FLOODS

Police officer and 18-year-old matriculant among seven reported drowned in East London

Tembile Sgqolana
4 mins

BATTLING TO SURVIVE

Durban fishers struggle to make ends meet after municipality closes beaches

Lungi Langa
3 mins

BLAZING SUMMER

Western Cape Kleinmond wildfire is 95% contained after five-day battle – Overstrand mayor

Tembile Sgqolana
3 mins

WILDFLOWER ALARM

Climate crisis could kill off the Namaqualand daisy spectacle, study finds

Giuseppe Rajkumar Guerandi
3 mins

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

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

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

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

POLLUTION

Free State municipality and Sibanye-Stillwater investigating stormwater flows on to farmland 

Jana Scheepers
3 mins

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

What Veganuary can do for you — and the planet

Onke Ngcuka
4 mins

ANIMAL MATTERS

Court throws out farmer’s privacy claim after activist exposes ‘barbaric’ animal traps

John Yeld
7 mins

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Seismic skirmishes: Murky permitting and scientific debate while Big Oil eyes South African waters

Ed Stoddard
8 mins

OPINIONISTA

Greening South Africa’s economy is a growth path out of unemployment and poverty — and is the right thing to do

Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu
5 mins

POWER GENERATION OP-ED

Nuclear power station life-extension project running late, even before it starts

Chris Yelland
3 mins

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION OP-ED

Shell judgment adds to growing body of decisions that companies must take rights of communities seriously

Peter Leon, Ernst Muller and Mandy Hattingh
7 mins

CARBON FOOTPRINT

There’s a new climate push in the building industry: regenerative architecture

Bloomberg
3 mins

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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
Sport

Motor racing mourns Austrian Formula One great Niki Lauda, survivor of fiery 1976 crash
South Africa

Top Springboks take a stand against gender-based violence
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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

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

TOP READS THIS WEEK

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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
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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
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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

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

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