The Weekend Wrap
Is it the end of the road for Danny Jordaan? And what does Elon Musk really want? Read it in the Weekend Wrap.
Just a few weeks ago Jordaan hinted at vying for a fourth term as Safa president after being re-elected for a third time in 2022. Instead, he’s in the dock for fraud and theft.
By Yanga Sibembe
On the surface, Musk is no different from famous American historical oligarchs – the robber barons, the tycoons and the plutocrats. Except he clearly wants something other than wealth. Something more.
By Steven Boykey Sidley
All is not well at the SA Human Rights Commission. A weekslong Daily Maverick investigation reveals claims of political bias, racism — and a crucial report allegedly doctored to protect Jacob Zuma.
By Rebecca Davis
A highly pathogenic avian flu is suspected to have reached Marion Island, South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory in the southern Indian Ocean.
By Tiara Walters
A highly pathogenic avian flu is suspected to have reached Marion Island, South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory in the southern Indian Ocean.
By Tiara Walters
Southern Africa is bucking the trend on the continent in terms of the decline in elephant populations, according to studies. And the reasons have a lot to do with economics.
By Ed Stoddard
The entire life of former Lavender Hill gangster Turner Adams, who died on 29 October 2024, was etched into his skin.
By Brenton Geach
The entire life of former Lavender Hill gangster Turner Adams, who died on 29 October 2024, was etched into his skin.
By Brenton Geach
Don Pinnock and a team of citizen scientists and Ju/’hoansi San trackers go on an expedition along Africa’s Cape South Coast to find ancient creatures of a drowned world and the origin of our species.
Matcha is a powdered version of green tea. Here’s what the evidence says about whether it’s good for us.
By Evangeline Mantzioris
That headline you read about the Air Fryer End of Days having arrived may not be telling you the whole truth. Or not in the headline at any rate. It’s the details that tell the story. And not very well.
By Tony Jackman
The iconic Johannesburg Planetarium has been transformed into the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome, marking a new chapter for science, humanities and education in South Africa.
By Julia Evans
Bafana Bafana qualified for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with two matches to spare, thus enhancing coach Hugo Broos’s already solid reputation since he joined the team in 2021.
By Yanga Sibembe
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