What are we to make of the SA Reserve Bank’s investigation into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa contravened SA’s exchange control regulations in the Phala Phala case?
By Tim Cohen
Gauteng’s unlawful crime prevention wardens raise police power concerns, we unpack the Russia-Cape Town Antarctic minerals nexus and picture a feminist utopia.
An investigation by Daily Maverick has shown that Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi jumped the gun in appointing and deploying 6,000 Crime Prevention Wardens in Gauteng, known as the ‘amaPanyaza’. It appears the whole scheme is being implemented unlawfully.
By Mark Heywood and Takudzwa Pongweni
What are we to make of the SA Reserve Bank’s investigation into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa contravened SA’s exchange control regulations in the Phala Phala case?
By Tim Cohen
What are we to make of the SA Reserve Bank’s investigation into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa contravened SA’s exchange control regulations in the Phala Phala case?
By Tim Cohen
Treating the controversy with the speed of a sloth at a sprinting competition, the South African government says it cannot investigate the Kremlin’s south polar minerals ‘research’ missions via Cape Town without evidence.
By Tiara Walters
While watching the Barbie movie and pondering the idea of an idealised world for women, I was reminded of other visions of feminist utopias emerging a world away from the plastic glamour of Barbie dolls with their high heels and beachwear bodies.
By Annie Devenish
A rare public exhibition by the graffiti artist Banksy in Glasgow has attracted 180,000 visits in 10 weeks from all corners of the world.
By John Curtis
What strikes me again and again and again, is that the problem is not that we are without solutions or ideas: we know how to alleviate hunger and we have enough food; we know how to offer quality medicine and care and we have the systems, science and resources; we know how to generate renewable energy on a mass scale.
By Mark Heywood
What strikes me again and again and again, is that the problem is not that we are without solutions or ideas: we know how to alleviate hunger and we have enough food; we know how to offer quality medicine and care and we have the systems, science and resources; we know how to generate renewable energy on a mass scale.
By Mark Heywood
It has been 18 months since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Although the war is less prominent in the media, the brutality is ongoing and the citizens of Ukraine want South Africans to listen to their voices on the catastrophe that has become their reality.
By Chuma Nontsele
In a post-Covid era, the country’s biggest medical scheme is seeing a significant increase in chronic diseases among female members, rising from 24% of female members registered for a chronic illness in June 2017, to 32.7% by July this year.
By Neesa Moodley
As important to Dr Elliot Motloung as the histories of black doctors in South Africa, was the mentorship of Prof Nyaweleni Tshifularo, a trailblazing paediatric surgeon surgeon.
By Maru Attwood
Luis Rubiales’ kissing of Jennifer Hermoso — which the latter says was not consensual — has dampened a historic moment for Spanish soccer. With pressure mounting, the defiant Rubiales has refused to step down.
By Yanga Sibembe
The Cape’s West Coast is in bloom, vermillion-coloured vygies make an entrance and there is a scattershot of colour, a Rorschach blotch gone mad with prison jumpsuit-orange and yolky yellows.
By Lin Sampson
The Cape’s West Coast is in bloom, vermillion-coloured vygies make an entrance and there is a scattershot of colour, a Rorschach blotch gone mad with prison jumpsuit-orange and yolky yellows.
By Lin Sampson
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