The Weekend Wrap
Fact-checking Thembi Simelane’s statements of VBS-linked loan to Parliament; four State Capture figures who made political comebacks; and lessons on how UK became 100% coal-free.
Justice minister Thembi Simelane misled Parliament when she appeared before the justice portfolio committee last month, a fact-check of her statements has revealed.
By Kyle Cowan (News24) and Pauli van Wyk (Daily Maverick)
Reports this week that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu is engaging with the private security industry to find a way it can work with and augment the SA Police Service suggest a major shift in the fight against crime. However, any attempt to work with the private security sector comes with major dangers for the police and our society.
By Stephen Grootes
Durban’s tourism industry has been on the decline in recent years due to pollution on its beaches along the iconic Golden Mile, concerns over crime, and, of course, Covid-19. As the city was preparing for the upcoming festive season, it was hit with another blow — water rationing.
By Chris Makhaye
Four key figures implicated in State Capture have entered South Africa’s Parliament, prompting serious concerns about accountability and the ongoing battle against corruption.
By Ferial Haffajee
During a recent visit of African investigative journalists to Germany’s largest media houses, Daily Maverick came face-to-face with the forces behind fascism’s global rise. From the escalating conflict in the Middle East to South Africa’s case for Israeli war crimes at the International Court of Justice, the resurgence of the far right brought the issues into sharp and dystopian focus – and everyone, no exceptions, had everything on the line.
By Kevin Bloom
The gazetting of the remote work visitor visa and the new points-based system for work visas removes bureaucratic hurdles that have hampered SA’s visa regime and promises far-reaching positive outcomes for the economy.
By Georgina Crouth
Saru’s general council must vote to decide if they agree to sell a 20% stake to American investors Ackerley Sports Group, which will lead to an immediate cash boost.
By Craig Ray
As the world considers how the first anniversary of the 7 October attacks by Hamas in Israel should be commemorated, Kalim Rajab looks at an infamous event from a century ago to ask a different question: when will vengeance be sated?
By Kalim Rajab
Financial literacy 101: Neesa Moodley and Thabo Qoako on teaching young adults to navigate debt, credit and the complexities of adulting.
By Lisakanya Venna
While socioeconomic factors and adverse childhood experiences are well-established contributors to the mental health crisis in South Africa and beyond, social media is becoming a growing factor that can negatively affect one’s mental wellbeing.
By Kavisha Pillay
After 142 years, the birthplace of coal became 100% coal-free on 1 October, when the Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power plant in Nottinghamshire, UK, closed at midnight on Monday.
By Julia Evans
AI impacts many things beyond the flashy chatbots – often in ways that quietly improve everyday processes.
By Kai Riemer and Sandra Peter
Lights, camera, assault! This is an increasingly familiar theme emerging via performers – celebrities – notably in the US. And it points to something totally unsettling, that what is fed to us en masse as entertainment can be the products of anything but.
By Caryn Dolley
A lab-grown truffle is as much a truffle as a lab-grown steak is a cow, writes a truffle farmer who explains the taxonomy of the truffle, and adds, colourfully, that the likelihood of successfully growing truffles using moss as the symbiont ‘is about as realistic as growing pineapples on a Dalmatian’.
By Max Bastard
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