The Weekend Wrap
The end of Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu; how South Africans are stung by ‘honey laundering’; and South Africans embodying the spirit of Madiba
Unlike most people in South Africa, Julius Malema had a choice. He chose poorly.
By Richard Poplak
New Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has nailed his nuclear colours to the mast. He wants South Africa to build a 2,500MW nuclear plant. It won’t be easy.
By Ray Mahlaka
It should come as no surprise that 2024 is proving to be a watershed. The greatest year in the history of the collective act of blind hope – which is democracy – is best encapsulated by paraphrasing Lenin; there are decades where nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.
By Natale Labia
At the time of the First Intifada, when Randa Abumudallala was a small child, roadmaps to coexistence between Palestinians and Jews were marked as ‘top priority’ by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency. But through her twenties and thirties, the Gaza blockade and the regular Israeli bombing campaigns would demonstrate the deafness of the Zionist leadership. Today, as a refugee attempting to evacuate her family from Rafah, Randa’s story is evocative of the paralysis in Israel about the ‘day after’.
By Kevin Bloom
At the time of the First Intifada, when Randa Abumudallala was a small child, roadmaps to coexistence between Palestinians and Jews were marked as ‘top priority’ by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency. But through her twenties and thirties, the Gaza blockade and the regular Israeli bombing campaigns would demonstrate the deafness of the Zionist leadership. Today, as a refugee attempting to evacuate her family from Rafah, Randa’s story is evocative of the paralysis in Israel about the ‘day after’.
By Kevin Bloom
For some of us, there is a safety net when faced with the crisis of lost employment. We can fall back on parents, spouses or friends. Others are not so lucky.
By Tamsin Metelerkamp
Where do your old smartphones, laptops, washing machines, digital cameras, refrigerators and external hard drives go when they give up the ghost? We should recycle, but mostly we don’t.
By Don Pinnock
Celebrate the rich heritage of the Karoo with these windows into the characters who helped shape it.
By Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit
Loneliness comes in many forms and can strike at any time and at any age.
By Sam Carr
The Springboks and Ireland are the new big rivalry in rugby and we should enjoy it.
By Craig Ray
Exploring and exposing Cape Town’s criminal landscape, Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley details the insidious expansion of the city’s notorious gangs out of their historic strongholds.
By Caryn Dolley
18 July is a revered day in South Africa — it is the date on which the country’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, was born. It’s a day when South Africans extend themselves for the benefit of those less fortunate in our infamously unequal society. Daily Maverick journalists took time out from reporting to reflect on the people they feel embody the spirit of Madiba.
By Daily Maverick
18 July is a revered day in South Africa — it is the date on which the country’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, was born. It’s a day when South Africans extend themselves for the benefit of those less fortunate in our infamously unequal society. Daily Maverick journalists took time out from reporting to reflect on the people they feel embody the spirit of Madiba.
By Daily Maverick
As a form of entertainment, the gaming industry has outpaced traditional entertainment sectors, earning above six times more than the film industry in the US, surpassing the combined revenue of the music and film industries.
By Georgina Crouth
Fake ‘honey’, the work of ‘honey fraudsters’ and often containing no actual honey at all, flies off South African supermarket shelves, while the real deal is often ignored. The problem is an absence of tailored legislation for verification.
By Dr Janais Delport
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