This week, without explanation, Daily Maverick’s press accreditation for the Russia-Africa summit was revoked. It’s the latest in a long list of institutions and organisations that have elected to shut down media engagement.
By Richard Poplak
Malema’s flip-flopping on homophobia exposes his political opportunism, South Africa’s love affair with Russia explains a media blackout, and how a shipping container brought electricity to a powerless town.
As the EFF celebrates its tenth birthday, the party has tried hard to define itself in a particular way and for a particular constituency. However, its hosting of a homophobe to deliver its 10th-anniversary lecture provides its critics with evidence that it flip-flops on major moral issues.
By Stephen Grootes
This week, without explanation, Daily Maverick’s press accreditation for the Russia-Africa summit was revoked. It’s the latest in a long list of institutions and organisations that have elected to shut down media engagement.
By Richard Poplak
As the EFF celebrates its tenth birthday, the party has tried hard to define itself in a particular way and for a particular constituency. However, its hosting of a homophobe to deliver its 10th-anniversary lecture provides its critics with evidence that it flip-flops on major moral issues.
By Stephen Grootes
This week, without explanation, Daily Maverick’s press accreditation for the Russia-Africa summit was revoked. It’s the latest in a long list of institutions and organisations that have elected to shut down media engagement.
By Richard Poplak
I don’t believe it’s an either-or situation. We can memorialise iconic figures while also mobilising resources to address our crippling socioeconomic imbalances.
By Zukiswa Pikoli
Access to electricity for the first time has changed a remote community – and it means a lot for their future.
By Ethan van Diemen
Altman is the most important person in AI, having been the first to spread it to the world. Now he is looking to spread the antidote too. Neat trick.
By Steven Boykey Sidley
Access to electricity for the first time has changed a remote community – and it means a lot for their future.
By Ethan van Diemen
Altman is the most important person in AI, having been the first to spread it to the world. Now he is looking to spread the antidote too. Neat trick.
By Steven Boykey Sidley
The Pole and Other Stories explores familiar Coetzeean themes of love, death, ageing, art and human-animal interaction.
By Sue Kossew
Jaded by years of service delivery failure, residents in parts of KwaZulu-Natal are finding new hope in simply doing it for themselves.
By Greg Ardé
Unclaimed bodies are putting a strain on forensic pathology services and the increase in load shedding exacerbates the problem. Gauteng has introduced a digital fingerprint system to identify unclaimed corpses.
By Jim Mohlala
Unclaimed bodies are putting a strain on forensic pathology services and the increase in load shedding exacerbates the problem. Gauteng has introduced a digital fingerprint system to identify unclaimed corpses.
By Jim Mohlala
The film is a compelling tale of discovery and archaeological sleuthing, one that upends the straightforward and widely assumed trajectory of hominin evolution.
By Paul Zille
University of Pretoria’s 20-year-old forward Wendy Shongwe is living her dream just by being part of Banyana Banyana’s World Cup squad. Nevertheless, she hopes to learn as much as possible during the tournament.
By Yanga Sibembe
With about 11,500 writers and 160,000 actors downing tools for better wages and regulation of use of AI in film and on TV, America’s film industry could hurt productions located in South Africa if the strike does not end soon.
By An Wentzel
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