Our Burning Planet

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Makhanda High Court to hear urgent interdict against Shell’s seismic survey

Tembile Sgqolana
4 mins

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Forthcoming UCT decision could set the tone for fossil fuel divestment in South Africa

David le Page for Fossil Free UCT and UCT Green Campus Initi

THE CONVERSATION

Extreme heat hurts human health. Its effects must be mitigated – urgently

Abdu Mohiddin, Christopher Jack, Evans Kituyi, Kristie Ebi, Matthew Chersich and Stanley Luchters

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Shell-shocked

Nathi and Africartoons

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ALL AT SEA

South Africa votes against UN shipping agency’s attempts to set new Paris-aligned emissions target

Ethan van Diemen
3 mins

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Shell to go ahead with Wild Coast seismic survey despite backlash and Express Petroleum pullout

Tembile Sgqolana
4 mins

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Choppy waters: More coastal surveys in the pipeline for South Africa

Tembile Sgqolana
10 mins

TRADE & THE ENVIRONMENT

Is the climate crisis really on the WTO’s agenda?

Julia Evans
4 mins

AFTER DURBAN CHEMICAL INFERNO

Legislators want tougher measures and inspections for chemical storage areas to avoid another UPL disaster

Tony Carnie
5 mins

VISUAL ESSAY

The dirty business of apartheid-era dinosaurs: Inside an Eskom coal-fired power plant

Ethan van Diemen
7 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

COVID-19

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
South Africa

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
COVID-19

First Omicron variant cases identified in the Western Cape
2021 Local Elections

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

Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole: ‘It’s not necessarily a gross dereliction of duty, it was a shortcoming of intelligence’
South Africa

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

Some of Mapisa-Nqakula’s evidence at SAHRC unrest hearings was pure fabrication – KZN police chief

THE CONVERSATION

Cows and cars should not be conflated in climate change debates

Ian Scoones

OPINIONISTA

Presidential Climate Commission – don’t ignore the advice of advisers, Mr President

Sasha Planting

NEW FRAME CARTOON

Cool Reception

Carlos Amato for New Frame

NEW FRAME

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

Tony Carnie

JUST TRANSITION

R131bn climate deal: ‘We are not going to be handing everything over to those funders,’ says Ramaphosa

Ethan van Diemen

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS

Strategic litigation a powerful tool to fight the climate crisis, webinar told

Zukiswa Pikoli

CLEANER, GREENER ACADEMIA

Wits Council resolves to appoint Pro-Vice-Chancellor for climate sustainability and inequality

Mark Heywood
4 mins

HAVE YOUR SAY FOR 2021

Vote for Daily Maverick’s people of the year

Daily Maverick Team
10 mins

DOSSIER: BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA

Heatpocrisy Explained (Part Two): Inside the rich and powerful nexus sizing up Earth’s last unmined frontier

Tiara Walters
9 mins

NATURE’S DEFENDERS

Ernst Haeckel: The zoologist whose drawings inspired Art Nouveau

Don Pinnock
5 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

Epstein’s Former Pilot Testifies About Shuttling Clinton, Trump and Spacey
Newsdeck

Danish frigate kills four pirates in Gulf of Guinea
Newsdeck

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

Ex-Trump chief of staff Meadows cooperating with Jan. 6 panel – for now

OPINIONISTA

Managing a just transition away from coal is a delicate balancing act – and Gwede Mantashe lacks balance

Richard Freund

FISH TALES

Where kings swim: Fears N2 Wild Coast Road project will threaten giant trevally migration while paving over residents’ histories 

Dennis Webster for New Frame

ISS TODAY: POST-COP26 ANALYSIS

Despite promises to the contrary, Nigeria’s commitment to end gas flaring may amount to little more than hot air

Oluwole Ojewale

DIE-OFF

Ripple effect: The sad story of the Western Cape ‘refugee’ seals

Caryn Dolley

THE CONVERSATION

How South Africa can get communities involved in conserving coastal and marine areas

Wayne Stanley Rice

THE CONVERSATION

The ocean is essential to tackling climate change – so why has it been neglected in global climate talks?

Dr Sali Bache

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OFFSHORE EXPLORATION

Road to hell for marine life: Shell’s Wild Coast seismic assessment plans meet mounting public protest

Victoria O’Regan
4 mins

SOUND REFLECTION

Nature’s notation: Depicting the troubled ambience of our world in crisis through music

Ethan van Diemen
3 mins

OPINIONISTA

COP-Out 26: Breaking the paralysis of hopelessness that pervades our response to the climate crisis

Jeff Rudin
9 mins

UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OP-ED

River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities

Steven Robins
7 mins

POETRY & PROSE

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

Ian Moll
2 mins

VISUALISATION: EC DAM LEVELS

Water levels below 50% as drought rips through Eastern Cape

Tembile Sgqolana
5 mins

WATER CATASTROPHE

Declare South Africa’s wastewater treatment a national disaster, urges SAHRC

Angus Begg
10 mins

DOSSIER: BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA

Explained: Russia’s 500 billion-barrel bombshell in Earth’s last unmined frontier

Tiara Walters
8 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

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

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
2021 Local Elections

Let the hustle begin: Many of South Africa’s metros are hung and unstable – how will it work?

BUSINESS MAVERICK

South Africa

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
South Africa

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy: How State Capture hobbled Alexkor
COVID-19

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis
South Africa

Shell to go ahead with Wild Coast seismic survey despite backlash and Express Petroleum pullout
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Athol Williams: ‘I will continue whistle-blowing and making the corrupt uncomfortable’

MAVERICK CITIZEN

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

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t smack travel restrictions on others: The real view from Britain’s Covid-19 crisis
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

South Africa

Shell to go ahead with Wild Coast seismic survey despite backlash and Express Petroleum pullout
South Africa

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
South Africa

Makhanda High Court to hear urgent interdict against Shell’s seismic survey
South Africa

Shell-shocked
South Africa

Forthcoming UCT decision could set the tone for fossil fuel divestment in South Africa

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 Life

You love amagwinya/puff puff/bofrot? Here’s a healthier version of Africa’s favourite snack
DM168

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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

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

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
2021 Local Elections

Let the hustle begin: Many of South Africa’s metros are hung and unstable – how will it work?

ROVING REPORTERS

Two men nabbed with rhino horn in Gauteng testify that police solicited a R30K bribe to release them

Tulani Ngwenya for Roving Reporters
4 mins

HEAT THE RICH OP-ED

For big polluters of the North to honour climate debt, we must ramp up taxes on multinationals and the mega-wealthy

Léonce Ndikumana
4 mins

JUST TRANSITION

Barbara Creecy: African countries need support — and about R4-trillion — to move from fossil fuels

Tembile Sgqolana
5 mins

NEW FRAME ANALYSIS

Retrofitting Koeberg power station is more likely to provoke a catastrophe than preserve energy — the plant should be closed

Neil Overy
5 mins

GROUNDUP

ConCourt dismisses Uthaka Energy’s appeal bid against Mpumalanga coal mining interdict

John Yeld
3 mins

Our Burning Planet Webinar

Expert argues SA uniquely placed, has responsibility, to curb massive Russian oil and gas exploration interests in Antarctic

Julia Evans
4 mins

SHOOT TO KILL

Environmentalists and hunters slam government over proposals for the trophy hunting of elephants, leopards and rhinos

Don Pinnock
6 mins

ISS TODAY ANALYSIS

The potential of Africa’s considerable fossil fuel reserves remains a fly in the ointment of renewable energy transition

Dhesigen Naidoo
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

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy: How State Capture hobbled Alexkor
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

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

South Africa

India tour puts R700m on the line for financially fragile Cricket South Africa
DM168

Springboks – Tests highlight challenges for defending world champs in 2023
DM168

Gender games: The complex issue of sport categories and why they matter
COVID-19

United Rugby Championship tours abandoned amid new Covid variant uncertainty in SA
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TGIFOOD

TGIFood

Throwback Thursday: Ouma onder die kombers (meatballs in cabbage leaves)
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Brinjal coconut curry with yellow rice
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TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Chocolate-coffee muffins
TGIFood

Kosmik Karoo: Welcome to the Dinner Party in the Sky

MOTORING

DM168

Audi’s new e-tron: When familiarity signals the remarkable
South Africa

Un bakkie très élégant: The new Peugeot Landtrek
DM168

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

TOP READS THIS WEEK

COVID-19

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
South Africa

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
South Africa

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

AFRICA

Africa

Gaddafi Jnr’s bid for president signals waning influence of ICC
Africa

Four scenarios and the funeral(s): Ethiopian powder keg is ready to explode in tragic ways
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

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
COVID-19

First Omicron variant cases identified in the Western Cape
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

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 9 January 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – TGIF, 8 May 2020
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 11 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 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

Joining the Dots: Pravin Gordhan, Floyd Shivambu and the dodgy origins of the ‘Indian cabal’ narrative
Webinars

Johnny Clegg’s life is the story of a true scatterling of Africa
Webinars

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

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

This weekend we’re watching: A dark Irish comedy about sisterhood

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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
COVID-19

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

On a mission from his God – Chief Justice Mogoeng’s message to South Africa: ‘We are bewitched’
South Africa

State Capture Inquiry dismisses ex-spy boss Arthur Fraser’s attacks on Zondo
South Africa

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is out of the Chief Justice contest
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

COVID-19

Red Face: Boris Johnson’s apartheid travel ban
South Africa

Cartoon Tuesday with Rico
South Africa

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

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